Lead - Treaty Bodies & Criminal Justice Reforms (Maternity Reliever) at Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU)

Job Purpose

• The job holder leads in conceptualizing, designing and 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 Job responsibilities

• Coordinates all treaty body activities at the national, regional and international levels;
• Leads policy and research work for legislative, policy and institutional and implementation campaigns to advance criminal justice reforms;
• Identifies, prioritizes, and refines policy targets and language and works with the communications team for dissemination;
• Tracks legislation and evolving political dynamics and identifies the gaps and opportunities;
• Creates and oversees strategic communications, research, and legislative products to support the campaign the criminal justice reforms work;Works closely with other like-minded organizations (including PRWG-K) and government agencies to prioritize high-impact work;
• Identifies and leads public interest litigation that informs policy and jurisprudence;
• Leads in developing reports for submission to treaty bodies;
• Identifies spaces within treaty body mechanisms for IMLU’s participation and influencing, including representing IMLU at relevant treaty body formal sessions and CSOs platforms;
• Strengthens internal and external stakeholder understanding of treaty body mechanisms;
• Develops and implements program work plans, ensuring alignment to institutional results areas;
• Ensures fundraising and donor partnership management;
• Overall in charge of all treaty body, criminal justice reforms and accountability program internal and external reporting;
• Monitors and evaluates programme interventions
• Ensures quality control of all treaty bodies, criminal justice reform and accountability program;
• Develops structured and productive partnerships with relevant government institutions to pursue regional and international agenda;
• Leads in developing and implementation of strategies for nurturing critical mass (movement building) for criminal justice reform at community level;
• Advises the Executive Director and the Senior Management Team on pertinent monitoring mechanisms; and
• Any other duty assigned from time to time.