Human Rights Officer (Focal Person)

Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is looking for qualified candidates to fill the following position. 

Purpose of the Job:

Manage individual human rights complaints, plan, and implement monitoring of places where people are deprived of liberty, emergencies and other institutions, finalize reports and issue recommendations. Develop and implement advocacy and follow up strategy. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Receive human rights complaints and manage investigation of human rights complaints assigned to him/her;

• Contribute to the design and implementation of strategies aiming at enhanced promotion and protection of human rights of individuals and groups in his/her areas of operation;

• Contribute to decisions in consultation with Regional Directors/City Heads/Coordinators;

• Contribute to and/or draft various human rights reports, communications, briefing notes, statement or other products;

• Assist in conducting capacity-building activities on relevant human rights and in developing and implementing training programmes;

• Conduct monitoring of places where people are deprived of liberty and other 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 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 Regional Directors/City Heads/Coordinator;

• Conduct quality control, follow up on recommendations 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, 

• agencies, private sector, development partners and other partners that work on human rights in his/her area of operation;

• Conducts research on human rights issues as appropriate;

• Provide input on revisions of systems, policies, guidelines, manuals, and tools, and

• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

LOCATION    Bule Hura, Dessie, Dire Dawa, Jinka, and Nekemte

REPORT TO    Regional Directors/City Heads

DURATION    Part-time

SALARY RANGE    Gross monthly salary of ETB 22,989.00 - ETB 27,380.00 plus ETB 7,200.00 Housing allowance and ETB 2,200.00 Transport allowance, depending on candidates

 qualification, experience and earning history
 

EHRC is committed to protecting all children from all forms of harm and to creating

 a safe and welcoming work environment. EHRC has zero-tolerance approach on sexual harassment 

and any harm against children. Hence, EHRC will only hire candidates whose 

background and behavior is aligned with anti-sexual harassment and child safeguarding principles.  

Qualifications and Experience

• MA/BA Degree Law, LLM, Human Rights Law, International Law.

• 4 years of relevant experience for BA and 2 years of relevant experience for MA.

• Computer literate

• Knowledge of Amharic is required. Knowledge of other local languages is advantageous.

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 desired 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 exam and interview.

Women candidates and candidates with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.

Deadline for application:  Monday 29th of July, 2024.