Job opportunities at Lawyers for Human Rights, Ethiopia

Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is an Ethiopian civil society organization re-registered on September 19 2019 before the FDRE Civil Societies Organizations Agency in accordance with Proclamation No. 1113/2019. The objectives of the Organization includes increasing the participation and contribution of lawyers in the area of human rights through trainings and other capacity building activities, supporting lawyers across the nation and help exchange of ideas, information and experience for better protection of human rights and prevalence of human rights, litigating strategically in courts and other relevant organs to ensure protection and promotion of human rights recognized under the FDRE Constitution and other laws, creating awareness for justice organs on international human rights instruments ratified by Ethiopia, providing free or low cost legal services for victims of human rights violation particularly disadvantaged communities, influencing the government to enact new laws or amend existing ones to give full protection for human rights, familiarizing the idea of human rights defenders (HRD) among the lawyers etc.

Open Positions

1. Consultancy: Assessment on Coordination of Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (CR-SGBV) Initiatives in Ethiopia (Deadline: April 16, 2026)
2. ToR: Sub-Grant Opportunity for Emerging CSOs on Advocacy and Advancing Access to Justice for Vulnerable Groups (Deadline: April 13, 2026)
3. ToR: Hiring a Trainer on Prisoners’ Human Rights for Prison Leadership and Officers at Adama and Shashemene, Oromia, Ethiopia (Deadline: April 10, 2026)
4. ToR: Hiring a Trainer on Legal Aid Service at Trial and Post-Trial Stages of Criminal Proceedings to Legal Aid Providers in Shashemene and Adama (Deadline: April 10, 2026)
5. ToR for Software Development of Centralized Legal Aid Service Management System (Deadline: April 10, 2026)