Human Rights Officer
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About the Role
Org. Setting and Reporting This position is located in the UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region (UNTDC), Office of the Unite.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as Coordinator of the Human Rights Training Unit, managing staff and coordinating with other units
- Lead coordination of all human rights training programmes, develop and supervise production of training materials
- Undertake needs assessment exercises to identify areas for training development
- Ensure all training activities apply OHCHR methodology and quality control
- Develop partnerships with training institutions and relevant UN entities
- Draft reports and evaluate human rights technical projects
Requirements
- Knowledge of and exposure to a range of human rights issues
- Experience in designing and implementing human rights education and training programmes
- Ability to evaluate and integrate information from a variety of sources
- Demonstrated skills in training civil authorities and advocacy groups
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Org. Setting and Reporting
- This position is located in the UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South West Asia and the Arab Region (UNTDC), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Doha. The incumbent reports to the Head of the UNTDC.
Responsibilities
- Serves as Coordinator of the Human Rights Training Unit with responsibility for carrying out, in consultation with the Head of the Centre, work coordination actions in relation to the Unit; manages staff of the Unit; coordinates with other Units of the Centre to ensure complementarity and achieve co
- Leads the coordination of all human rights training programmes of the Unit; develops, coordinates and supervises the production and delivery of regional and sub regional human rights training programmes, materials, tools and learning methodologies.
- Undertakes needs assessment exercises, based on OHCHR priorities in the region, to identify areas where human rights training programmes or materials need to be developed, updated or customized.
- Ensures that all Centre's human rights training activities apply OHCHR methodology, including appropriate needs assessment and evaluation.
- Coordinate closely with OHCHR Methodology, Learning, Policy and Practice Section (MLPP) at Global Operations Division.
- Prepares a strategy and an annual workplan for the Unit, including relevant resource requirements.
- Provides specialized training methodology support and advice to OHCHR field offices in the region.
- Develops partnerships with training institutions, selected relevant institutions, and relevant UN entities.
- Ensures that gender equality considerations are integrated into human rights training policies and programmes.
- Drafts reports and a variety of other documents for the Centre; drafts and evaluates human rights technical projects.
- Manages and coordinates the activities and staff of the Unit, including managing performance, providing supervision and guidance.
- Represents the Centre in meetings as required.
Competencies
- Professionalism: Knowledge of and exposure to a range of human rights issues including approaches and techniques to address sensitive and complex human rights problems.
- Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively; listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately.
- Planning & Organizing: Develops clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies; identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required.
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