Vacancy Announcement – Ethiopian Human Rights Commission
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Ethiopian Human Rights Commission would like to invites competent and interested candidates for the following position.
Position: Human Rights Officer (Focal Person)
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.
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.
Deadline: Monday of July 29, 2024.
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.
Incomplete application will not be considered
Only short listed candidates will be communicated.
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- Read the vacancy announcement carefully.
- Check the vacancy details with eligibility.
- Prepare your CV or Application Details.
- Finally, apply as instructed by the authority.
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