Human Rights Officer

The Human Rights Officer will lead the Civic Space team in the OHCHR Country Office in Sudan, coordinating human rights monitoring, reporting, capacity-building, and advocacy activities. The role involves providing substantive advice to national counterparts and UN leadership, managing partnerships, and overseeing team activities to promote human rights and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the monitoring of the implementation of human rights and international humanitarian law and ensure appropriate follow-up on recommendations from human rights mechanisms, including treaty bodies, the UPR, special procedures, and investigative findings, to support compliance with human rights and advance accountability.
• Coordinate and manage the collection, documentation, and quality control of evidence-based information on civil, cultural, economic, social, and/or political rights, including the right to development, to support early warning, accountability, and informed decision-making, identifying gaps and ensuring the proper handling and sharing of human rights data, including from gender and leave no one behind perspectives.
• Lead and coordinate the production and substantive review of human rights reports, briefings, and other communications, with legal analysis as appropriate, and prepare analytical papers to inform strategies, policies, programmes, crisis management, guidance, and decision-making, with attention to gender integration and leave-no-one-behind perspectives.
• Lead the provision of substantive advice and technical support to national and/or regional counterparts to strengthen their human rights systems, institutions, and frameworks, including complaints mechanisms, victim and witness support services, and engagement with human rights mechanisms, including reporting and implementation of recommendations.
• Lead the design and delivery of human rights capacity-building programmes for State institutions, security forces, NHRIs, civil society, and other stakeholders, including on human rights-based approaches with attention to gender integration and leave-no-one-behind perspectives.
• Lead the provision of substantive advice to civil society on the integration of human rights into protection, rule of law, the human rights economy, transitional justice, and accountability.
• Advise UN leadership and UN partners on the integration of human rights into protection, rule of law, economic policy, transitional justice, and accountability, leading substantive advisory inputs within assigned areas of responsibility.
• Lead the engagement with youth networks to advocate for youth rights and meaningful participation in civic, political, and other decision-making processes.
• Support strategic direction and provide policy advice to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, and all forms of discrimination, with a leave-no-one-behind perspective, applying a gender and intersectional analysis throughout.
• Promote Human Rights through leading advocacy and impactful outreach activities.
• Lead and coordinate the office's partnership building and creation of new partnerships.
• Manage and coordinate the activities of the team, including hiring, training, assigning tasks and responsibilities, and ensuring that deadlines are met.
• Plan and manage required resources to implement the responsibilities, projects, and activities.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in human rights, law, political science, international relations, social sciences, economics, public policy, sustainable development, humanitarian affairs or related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in human rights or related areas is required.
• Relevant experience may include, but is not limited to political affairs, public affairs, international relations, law, social sciences, economics, development, humanitarian affairs, or other related areas.
• Planning, organising, and coordination skills in a large multi-stakeholder environment is required.
• Knowledge of international human rights law, norms, and standards is required.
• Skills in drafting human rights reports, policy and other documents is required.
• Skills in designing, delivering, and evaluating capacity-building and training programmes are desirable.
• Skills to integrate a human rights-based approach, leave no one behind, gender equality and women's empowerment into all areas of work are desirable.
• Knowledge of human rights monitoring, documentation, analysis, research and reporting methodologies, including planning, coordinating and conducting field missions is desirable.
• Knowledge of regional and international human rights mechanisms is desirable.
• English is required at UN Level II proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
• Arabic is desirable at UN Level I proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Skills

• Human Rights
• Human Rights Monitoring
• Human Rights Reporting
• Policy drafting
• Capacity-building Programmes
• Training Design
• Human Rights Documentation
• Human Rights Analysis
• Field Mission Coordination
• Stakeholder Coordination
• International Relations
• Political Affairs
• Public Policy
• Gender Equality Integration
• Women’s Empowerment
• Human Rights Approaches
• Sustainable Development
• Social Sciences
• Economic Analysis

Languages

English, Arabic