Senior Human Rights Officer Job United Nations

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Responsibilities

• Within delegated authority, the Senior Human Rights Officer will be responsible for the following duties:
• Oversees engagement of the Office in relation to protection and humanitarian action, and represents the Office in coordination mechanisms.
• Formulates human rights strategies, including from a gender equality perspective; develops a vision or direction for work on human rights matters and creates the conditions for implementing that vision or direction.
• Advises senior officials on human rights matters.
• Represents the Office on matters of human rights, as delegated.
• Negotiates directly with relevant parties the human rights elements of peace accords or the human rights concerns while long range solutions are sought.
• Proposes policy directives and plan of action to appropriate United Nations bodies for immediate and long- range solutions to human rights problems in general and specific geographical areas.
• Designs, develops and implements significant policy and program changes to address regional or global human rights issues, including their gender dimensions.
• Formulates the programme of work, budget and medium-term plan of the unit and participates in the overall formulation and approval of the programme of work, and administrative matters concerning the Office.
• Prepares human rights reports on key sectors or key developments.
• Develops and maintains relations with other UN entities, international organisations and government officials and engages with them on human rights issues and policies.
• Coordinates and oversees human rights research initiatives, as relevant.
• Manages, coordinates, organizes and supervises human rights officers or organizational units as assigned, including on monitoring and analysis.
• Leads team members’ efforts to collect and analyze data and provides insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. Ensures that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in law, political science, international relations, social sciences or related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Work Experience

• A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in human rights, political affairs, international relations, law or related area is required.
• At least three years of field experience is required, including in conflict or crisis settings.
• Experience in managing diverse teams is required. Experience in human rights monitoring and analysis is desirable.
• Experience in humanitarian action and engaging with humanitarian and crisis coordination mechanisms is desirable.

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