Human Rights Officer | Mekelle
Location: Mekelle City office, Ethiopia
Organization: Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
Deadline: June 9, 2025
Job Description
Purpose of the Job:
- Manage individual human rights complaints, plan, and implement monitoring of places of detention and emergencies, finalize reports and issue recommendations.
- Develop and implement advocacy and follow up strategy.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage investigation of human rights complaints assigned to him/her,
- Contribute to decisions in consultation with coordinators and Senior Human Rights Officers.
- Conduct monitoring of places of detention and draft reports
- Conduct human rights monitoring during emergencies
- Issue recommendations: develop and implement advocacy and follow up strategy
- Proposes areas for systemic investigation and refer them to thematic functions in consultation with the Senior Human Right Officer/Coordinator
- Manage partnerships and relationships with stakeholders
- Conducts research on human rights issues as appropriate
- Provide input on revisions of systems, policies, guidelines, manuals, and tools
Gross monthly salary of ETB 20,400.00 – ETB 23,683.00 plus ETB 8,640.00 Housing allowance and ETB 3,300.00 Transport allowance, depending on candidates qualification, experience and earning history
About You
Qualifications and Experience:
- LLB/MA/LLM in human Rights Law, International Law, or related fields.
- 2 years relevant experience for MA/LLM holders and 4 years’ relevant experience for LLB.
- Knowledge of Amharic is required.
- Knowledge of other local languages is advantageous.
- Analytical skills
- Adaptability
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
How to Apply
Interested candidates should write a covering letter, explaining why they are interested in this role, why you are the right person for the job with a recent CV which should be sent to the following email address: HRM@ehrc.org.
Please include the name of the position and location on the subject of the email. Candidates who didn’t follow the procedure will be rejected automatically. Please do not respond to the automatic reply.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for written exams and interviews.
Women candidates and candidates with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.
Deadline for application: Monday 9th of June 2025.
EHRC is committed to protecting all children from all forms of harm and to creating a safe and welcoming work environment. We expect everyone working in EHRC to share this commitment by understanding and working within the EHRC’s child safeguarding and anti-sexual harassment policy. EHRC has zero-tolerance approach on sexual harassment and any harm against child safeguarding by any of our employees or partners
