Advisor on Gender and Human Rights for Transitional Justice

GIZ- Internal #142/2024

Support to Transitional Justice – S2TJ

Duty Station: Addis Ababa 

Contract end date: 30.11.2027

Brief description of the project/ unit

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a German public-benefit federal enterprise. GIZ works worldwide in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas. We work to shape a future worth living in over 120 countries around the world.

The Project “Support to the Transitional Justice Process in Ethiopia” (S2TJ) is accompanying the transitional justice process (TJ), that has been initiated by the Ethiopian Government. This process is an essential element in the national peace process to secure reconciliation and long-lasting and sustainable peace. The project aims at advising and strengthening key government institutions as well as Civil Society Organisations to ensure that the TJ process is conducted in an inclusive, gender responsive, survivor and victim-centred manner and according to international human rights standards.

As a technical advisor, you will be responsible to support the government and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to ensure that the Transitional Justice (TJ) process is implemented in an inclusive, gender-transformative, survivor- and victim-centred way according to international human right standards.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Assist in the identification of suitable CSOs and victim associations for project partnerships to ensure a gender-responsive and victim-centred TJ process according to international human rights standards.
• Provide guidance and technical support to victim associations, to enable them to meaningfully participate in the TJ process.
• Provide advice and technical inputs to CSOs involved in the transitional justice process to fulfil their role in monitoring the implementation of the transitional justice policy, focusing on gender, human rights, survivors and victim-centred aspects.
• Conceptualise capacity development materials and conduct trainings on a gender-responsive and victim-centred TJ-process for the project partners and other relevant stakeholders of the TJ process.
• Prepare and accompany the implementation of financial agreements and consultancy contracts with CSOs.
• Support operational planning and implementation of project activities with relation to non-state institutions in the TJ process.
• Support other project management related tasks, such as event planning and providing inputs to the project’s communication materials and M&E system.
• Conceptualise and implement digital solutions that can support the work of CSOs and government organisations on the implementation of the transitional justice policy.
• Provide advisory services and technical inputs on issues of gender, human rights and survivor representation to relevant government institutions involved in the transitional justice process, such as the Ministry of Peace and the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC).