Human Rights Officer, Women’s Rights

Job Description

Report To:Coordinator, Women’s Rights

Purpose of the Job:

To conduct the day-to-day monitoring activities related to Human Rights in the different sectors and at different levels, for the promotion and protection of women’s rights.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct monitoring on selected institutions to assess whether their policies and procedures are in compliance with international and regional human rights standards and produce reports with concrete remedial recommendations;
• Conduct fact-finding missions and investigation into human rights abuses, including systemic human rights violation on women, including through close cooperation with relevant stakeholders, human rights actors and the community with the aim at promoting and protecting their human rights or seeking remedial actions by relevant authorities to prevent similar violations from occurring in the future;
• Contribute to and/or draft various human rights reports, communications, briefing notes, statement or other products;
• Conduct quality control and, follow up on the implementation of recommendations, general comments and concluding observations forwarded by relevant international and regional human rights bodies, by EHRC; and deliver statistics and trend reports as required;
• Collaborate with team members and establish and maintain contacts with technical staff of government and non-governmental institutions, civil society organizations, UN agencies, private sector, development partners and other partners focusing on monitoring of women rights;
• Collaborate with international and regional human rights system in general and more specifically in relation to children and children to follow up on recommendations and regular reporting on the human rights situation of women to relevant international and regional human rights treaty bodies;
• Assist in conducting capacity-building activities on relevant human rights and in developing and implementing training programmes;
• Ensure mainstreaming of gender and women’s rights as well as GBV as relevant in other EHRC’s activities and programming;
• Participate in investigation of cases of human rights violations involving women as needed;
• Collaborate and participate in discussion forums set in institutions and organizations, including other NHRIs for joint programming, sharing of experience and promising practices, regarding the application of rights of women in their policies and organizational operations;
• Provide technical support and inputs to requesting groups/victims on women’s human rights;
• Keep the Coordinator informed with regular detailed and accurate reports on progress and hurdles of monitoring works conducted by the Team;
• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Qualifications and Experience:

• LLM/MA/LLB in Law, Human Rights Law, International Law.
• 4 years of relevant experience for LLB and 2 years of relevant experience for LLM/MA.
• Computer literate
• Knowledge of Amharic is required. Knowledge of other local languages is advantageous.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for written exam and interview.
• Women candidates and candidates with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.