Human Rights and Gender Officer

Contract

This is a UNV International Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as International UN Volunteer. It is normally internationally recruited only. More about UNV International Specialist contracts.

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 25 years old. Nationals of the country of assignment are not eligible, except the assignments in Headquarters duty stations.

Description of task

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the unit coordinator or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Provide technical assistance to indigenous women and other discriminated women organizations supported by the PROFEM Project, State actors and institutions and other OHCHR partners.
• Provide technical support to organizations and rights holders for the development of advocacy strategies that aim at mainstreaming gender, including gender analysis, gender data and apply women´s international human rights standards.
• Provide technical assistance in the reporting and delivering of grants to civil society organizations.
• Support the integration of a gender perspective in OHCHR-Guatemala’s strategic lines priorities and activities;

• Support the implementation of the OHCHR-Guatemala gender strategy;

• Contribute to and/or draft various reports, communications, briefing notes, statements and contribute to the draft of the annual narrative report for donor that includes: i) the activities carried out; ii) documents produced; iii) minutes of meetings and progress reports; iv) systematization of advisory, facilitation and accompaniment activities and their results.

• Conduct field missions
• Perform other related duties as required.

Qualifications/Requirements

Required degree level:

Bachelor degree or equivalent

Education - Additional Comments:

A first-level university degree or equivalent in combination with relevant training and/or professional experience in human rights or gender may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree

Required experience:

24 Months

Experience remark:

at least 2 years of progressively, responsible and relevant professional experience in the field of human rights or justice at the local, national or international level, including experience with civil society organizations and experience in human rights analysis and reporting cases.

Language skills:

• Spanish(Mandatory), Level - Fluent
• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise:

Human rights, International law

Area of expertise details:

• Experiencia laboral en derechos humanos desde una perspectiva de género y/o interculturalidad, es requerida.
• Experiencia en mecanismos internacionales de monitoreo de derechos humanos, es deseable.
• Experiencia y/o conocimiento de la situación de los derechos humanos en Guatemala será considerada una ventaja.
• Experiencia laboral a nivel nacional y/o internacional en el ámbito de los derechos humanos de las mujeres, incluidas mujeres indígenas, garífunas y/o personas LGBTI, es altamente deseable.
• Experiencia de trabajo con organizaciones de sociedad civil, idealmente a nivel comunitario, es deseable.
• Experiencia en redacción y en elaboración de informes o notas de análisis.
• Conocimientos informáticos sólidos, incluyendo manejo avanzado de varias aplicaciones de Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, etc.) así como email/internet; familiaridad con gestión de bases de datos y equipamiento tecnológico de oficina;

Driving license:

No

Competencies values:

Communication, Planning and Organizing, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity, Working in Teams

Application procedure:

You can only apply if you have created your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup

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Application deadline: 07-Mar-2021 at 23:59hrs, Germany time zone