Lead- Treaty Bodies and Criminal Justice Reforms at Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU)

Job Purpose

Lead in coordinating IMLU’s engagement with regional and international treaty bodies and national criminal justice reform, to deliver on the institutional goals and results in accordance with our strategic plan.

Main Responsibilities Of The Jobs

Managerial / Supervisory/ Operational Responsibilities or roles:

• Coordination of all treaty body activities at the community, national, regional and international levels
• Lead policy and research work for legislative, policy and institutional and implementation campaigns to advance criminal justice reforms
• Identify, prioritise, and refine policy targets and language and work with the communications team for dissemination
• Track legislation and policy and evolving political dynamics and identify the gaps and opportunities
• Create and oversee strategic communications, research, and legislative products to support campaign the criminal justice reforms work
• Work closely with other like-minded organizations (including PRWG-K) and government agencies to prioritize high-impact work
• Identifying and leading public interest litigation that informs policy and jurisprudence;
• Lead in developing reports for submission to treaty bodies.
• Identifying spaces within treaty body mechanisms for IMLU’s participation and influencing, including representing IMLU at relevant treaty body formal sessions and CSOs platforms.
• Any other duty assigned from time to time.

Responsibility for physical assets

• Office Laptop
• Office desktop
• Office Phone
• All organisation’s assets allocated to the programme

Nature of Decision Making

• Makes important strategic, policy and operational decisions ;-
• HR decisions-performance management
• Program budgeting

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Minimum level of academic qualification required to perform effectively in the role:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB) with a bias in international human rights law
• Bachelor’s Degree in social sciences with training on international human rights law;
• Knowledge and Skills required to perform effectively in the role:
• Knowledge in international human rights law
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of the project management cycle and public administration
• Excellent IT skills, with working knowledge for the various packages.
• Demonstrable experience and understanding of the roles of leading, managing, implementing and delivering envisaged change/results.

Minimum level of professional qualification required to perform effectively in the role:

• Diploma in project management or monitoring and evaluation

Minimum level of personal and professional experience required to perform effectively in the role:

• Demonstrable experience in advocacy on international human rights law and treaty body processes;
• Demonstrable advocacy experience in criminal justice reform i.e. penal, judicial; policing;
• Demonstrable experience in project design and M and E
• Experience in grant management
• Good communication skills
• Strategic networking and building alliances

Minimum months or years of experience required to have to be appointed to the position :

• Minimum: At least 3 years’ relevant experience in mid-level management preferably in a reputable human rights NGO working in criminal justice reform or treaty body advocacy.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Effective policy, advocacy and engagement,
• Submission of quarterly trend analysis report.
• Collating and timely submission of reports for annual reporting
• Developing reports for submission to treaty bodies