OHCHR Human Rights Officer/Investigator Jobs 2022 – Uganda NGO Jobs. OHCHR Uganda looking for “Human Rights Officer/Investigator“. Applicants with a degree in University Degree may apply on or before Dec. 11, 2022.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) or the United Nations Human Rights Office, is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nations that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The office was established by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 December 1993 in the wake of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.
OHCHR Human Rights Officer/Investigator Jobs 2022
The OHCHR has published a job vacancy announcement on Nov. 29, 2022 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Human Rights Officer/Investigator to be based in ENTEBBE, Uganda.
| Recruiter | Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) |
| Position | HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER/Gender Adviser/SGBV Investigator |
| Location | ENTEBBE, Uganda |
| Country | Uganda |
| Total Vacant Post | 01 |
| Qualification | University Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Seven years |
| Application Deadline | Dec. 11, 2022 |
OHCHR Job Vacancy 2022
Description of duties
Within delegated authority, the Human Rights Officer (Gender Advisor/SGBV Investigator) will be responsible for the following duties:
- – Advises the Experts of the Commission and the Secretariat on the gender dimensions of human rights violations and abuses, including through gender analysis, advice on, training, ensuring integration of a gender perspective throughout the work of the Commission;
- – Researches, documents and collects information pertaining to women’s human rights and gender issues directly related to the mandate of the Commission, including violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, and as appropriate, international criminal law;
- – Recommends referral pathways addressed to victims and survivors, in accordance with agreed methodology and strategy of the Commission, as well as OHCHR’s methodology and full respect for the ‘do no harm principle’;
- – Ensures proper documentation, collection, preservation of information, analysis and reporting on cases of sexual and gender-based violence and other gender-based human rights violations and abuses and that the gender-specific impact of violations is assessed, documented, analysed and reported by all members of the team;
- – Conducts and/or assists the team in interviewing and evidence gathering activities, ensuring that necessary measures of protection and confidentiality for witnesses and victims are gender-sensitive;
- – Participates in field missions for information gathering activities;
- – Contributes to the drafting and timely submission of the final report, recommendations and other analytical documents of the Commission; ensure that such documents integrate gender perspective and that gender-sensitive language is used throughout them.
- – Suggests gender-specific priority recommendations for the final report, including on sexual and gender-based violence.
- – Provides advice to the team on the integration of gender-sensitive information gathering methods including interviewing, security arrangements, witness and victim protection and safe information and data handling;
- – Performs other duties as required.
Position in Organization:
- Posting Title: HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER/Gender Adviser/SGBV Investigator, P4 (Temporary Job Opening)
- Job Code Title: HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER
- Department/Office: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Duty Station: ENTEBBE
- Posting Period: 28 November 2022 – 11 December 2022
- Job Opening Number: 22-Human Rights Affairs-OHCHR-195224-J-Entebbe (R)
- Staffing Exercise: N/A
Qualification:
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent degree) in law, political science, international relations or another discipline related to human rights is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible work experience in human rights, international humanitarian law or international criminal law is required.
- A minimum of two (2) years of experience working on women’s human rights, gender integration and/or on sexual and gender-based violence is required.
- Experience in providing gender analysis in human rights monitoring or human rights, international humanitarian law or criminal law investigations is required.
- Experience in drafting reports is required.
- Experience in conflict or post conflict settings is desirable.
- English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in
- English, (both oral and written) is required.
How to Apply OHCHR Human Rights Officer/Investigator Jobs 2022
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=195224
The Closing Date: Dec. 11, 2022.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.ohchr.org |
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