Human Rights Associate

Volunteering Legal Communications & PR

Overview

Assist in human rights advocacy and capacity-building efforts in the OPT.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in human rights, communications, law, social science, management, public administration or related field.
• Experience in drafting correspondence and preparing meeting materials and briefing notes.
• Experience in conducting background research related to human rights issues.
• Experience in supporting programmatic activities related to human rights.
• Ability to monitor and evaluate programmatic activities and provide inputs for reporting.

Contract

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

The OPT Office mandate includes monitoring and reporting, technical assistance and capacity-building for the Palestinian Authority and civil society. OHCHR oPt is specifically mandated by Human Rights Council resolutions S-9/1 and S-12/1 of 2009 to monitor and report regularly on the human rights situation in the OPT, including East Jerusalem. Pursuant to its mandate, OHCHR submits periodic reports to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly and informs discussions within other United Nations bodies. In addition, OHCHR oPt is the coordinator of the Humanitarian Protection Cluster. The UNV will work closely with the Head of Office assisting in general human rights related work and carrying out planning and organization tasks in advocacy and communications. The UN Volunteer will join the International staff of OCHR and work from Amman to support the OHCHR work in state of Palestine.

Under the direct supervision of Head of Capacity Building, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support the Office in a variety of tasks, such as drafting correspondence, preparing meeting materials, briefing notes, collecting and compiling relevant information and as-sist in day-to-day tasks relating to human rights matters in the OPT. • Conduct background research and contribute to the drafting of a variety of written products in close cooperation with the Monitoring, Capacity-building and Protection Cluster Teams. regarding the human rights situation in the OPT. • Support the Office’s programmatic work, including preparing and organizing activities that enhance public awareness on critical human rights issues and international human rights obligations of all duty-bearers. • Support the NHRI, civil society and national institutions to engage with and integrate UN human rights mechanism’s recommendations in programmatic, policy and advoca-cy work. •Assists in the design and implementation of OHCHR programmatic activities for na-tional institutions and civil society, including needs assessments, public information campaigns, preparing and delivering training material. • Assist in the relevant UN Country Team's task forces and working groups, with a view to promoting human rights mainstreaming in development and recovery work. • Monitor the implementation of OHCHR programmatic activities, evaluate the impact of outputs in relation to the planned outcomes, and provide inputs to OHCHR's internal and external programme reporting. • Assist in the planning, preparation and collection process of monitoring and evaluation exercises of Office’s projects on human rights including AWP and mid-term reviews. • Perform other relevant duties as required.

☒ Accountability ☒ Adaptability and Flexibility ☒ Client Orientation ☒ Communication ☒ Creativity ☒ Ethics and Values

human rights, communications, law, social science, management, public administration or related field;

Due to the refusal of Israel to reply to visa requests for OHCHR international staff to enter the oPt, OHCHR has temporarily relocated a number of staff to work from Amman, Jordan. This assignment will be located with other international staff in Amman until visas are secured.

Location: Amman is the capital of the Kingdom of Jordan, located in the Middle East. Bound by Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, Red Sea to the south and the Palestinian National Authority to the west.

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