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Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Human Rights Officer (Legal Adviser) will be responsible for the following duties:

• Advises the team on matters related to the applicable legal framework and the legal standards applicable to the human rights situation under investigation;
• Conducts analysis and research on various legal matters pertaining to the investigation, and contributes to drafting the investigation plan;
• Suggests legal qualifications of gathered information, advises on the standard of proof and determines responsibilities and, where possible, identifies those responsible;
• Provides advice on different legal issues and assists in drafting legal opinions, memoranda and other briefing documents for Members and the Fact Finding Mission staff;
• Ensures legal accuracy of all documents, including reports, submissions, press releases etc., prepared by the Fact Finding Mission;
• Identifies trends and patterns of human rights violations and abuses, and violations of international criminal law and international humanitarian law;
• Drafts the legal framework and analysis of the Fact Finding Mission's reports and ensures consistency of findings, conclusions and recommendations with the mandate, applicable law and information gathered;
• Conducts information gathering activities under the guidance of the Investigation Team Leader, including interviews and the collection and analysis of open sources material and satellite imagery;
• Ensures the legal analysis and legal qualification of the findings integrate gender perspective, reflecting the gender dimensions and gendered impact of the violations;
• Advises the Coordinator and the team on the legal findings and discusses the possible recommendations in particular, on accountability measures.
• Performs other duties as required.

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in international law, or another discipline related to human rights is required.
• A first-level university degree with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree

Work Experience

• A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible work experience in human rights, international humanitarian law, international criminal law is required.
• At least two years of experience in providing legal analysis to human rights investigative bodies or tribunals is required. Working experience in/on the region is desirable.

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Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Human Rights Officer (Analyst/Reporting Officer) will be responsible for the following duties:

• Reviews and analyses information collected and advises the Fact Finding Mission staff on addressing gaps and following leads;
• In coordination with the Investigations Team Leader, identifies gaps and orients the investigation accordingly; coordinates closely with the Legal Adviser to ensure information collected corresponds to the required legal elements;
• Coordinates closely with the Gender Adviser to ensure gender perspectives are integrated throughout the investigation, and during analysis and report drafting, including on the gendered impact of the violations;
• Prepares briefings, summaries of information gathered and analytical documents as required;
• Coordinates the drafting of the Fact Finding Mission’s reports, and any other report produced by the Fact-Finding Missionand acts as its main drafter;
• Ensures that information collected is properly documented, in accordance with standard OHCHR methodology in coordination with the Investigation Team Leader and Coordinator;
• Assists in drawing analytical conclusions; proposes the structure of reports and visualisation of the Fact Finding Mission’s findings and conclusions; assists in developing actionable and gender-sensitive recommendations.
• Performs other duties as required.

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent degree) in law, political science, international relations or another discipline related to human rights is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Work Experience

• A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible work experience in human rights, international humanitarian law or international criminal law is required.
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience in the analysis and drafting of public human rights reports is required. Relevant working experience in or on the region is desirable.

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Responsibilities

• Manages archival processing activities by overseeing adherence to preservation, international bibliographic, description and database standards; produces descriptive inventories; prepares mark-up of descriptive inventories for electronic dissemination; and makes recommendations regarding the planning and prioritisation of preservation and description programme requirements.
• Performs and supervises reference functions by advising internal and external users about records holdings and accessibility; maintaining communications with other information management networks and records and archives specialists.
• Ensures that appropriate controls are in place to prevent unauthorised access to information. In collaboration with the OHCHR cybersecurity team, monitors emerging threats, and advises relevant stakeholders on the appropriate courses of action.
• Oversees cybersecurity assessments and develop strategies for remediating vulnerabilities and risks identified.
• Investigates all events or reports indicating that a compromise of integrity or confidentiality of information has taken place, especially of a classified/sensitive nature.
• Develops and implements strategies to mitigate cybersecurity incidents. Helps develop policies, standards and action plans relating to cybersecurity issues.
• Provides information security training to the personnel of the Fact-Finding Mission, to safeguard the confidentiality of Fact-Finding Missions’ work at its headquarters and during field missions.
• Evaluates adequacy of existing records management and reference tools. Implements new technologies in information management to ensure that tools developed for efficient access to information are accessible to staff throughout the Organization.
• Maintains access and declassification standards by liaising with records-originating offices/offices of interest regarding access to security-classified materials and implements access and declassification determinations.
• Performs other related duties, as required.

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in archival, information science, information systems, social science or related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Certification in eDiscovery is desirable.
• Certification in project management is also desirable.

Work Experience

• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in modern archives management, record keeping, library, information management or related area is required.
• A minimum of two years of experience in managing eDiscovery platforms (e.g. Relativity, Nuix eDiscovery) is desirable.
• Experience with the handling of digital and physical evidence is desirable. Relevant work experience in cyber security / cyber risk management is desirable. Relevant working experience in/on the region is desirable.

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Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Human Rights Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

• Conducts open source and digital investigations on allegations of violations of international human rights, international humanitarian and international criminal law in accordance with OHCHR's methodology and institutional guidelines and protocols on digital evidence handling, information security and open source investigation.
• Sets up an open-source investigation tools and analysis system, and undertakes verification, authentication, geolocation and analysis of digital content (such as audios, videos, images including satellite imagery) following internationally recognized forensic standard.
• Collects and preserves information and evidence from online sources (including web pages, social media, photo/video sharing platforms, publicly available databases) in accordance with applicable standards and protocols, and assists in determining its credibility and reliability; Ensures documentation, chain of custody and integrity of the collected data when necessary for evidentiary purpose.
• Develops or contributes to the development of processes to meet the investigation needs and prepares complete and concise investigation reports and conducts post investigation tasks;
• Plans and coordinates activities related to the fact-finding mission’s mandate.
• Conducts substantive research and analysis of mandate-related issues/events and assesses their impact on the human rights situation in assigned region or country.
• Collects and analyses human rights data and indicators in country/region of assignment, including gender-specific data and indicators.
• Ensures human rights issues, including their gender equality dimensions are integrated into political, humanitarian and economic efforts and programme. • Defines work plan for area assigned in accordance with established terms of reference.
• Represents UN human rights programme at working level meetings.
• Writes a variety of reports, communications, briefings, statements, etc., including to policy-making bodies.
• May provide guidance to new/junior staff.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in law, political science, international relations, social sciences or related area A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Work Experience

• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in human rights, political affairs, international relations, law or related area is required. Out of the (5) years, at least two (2) years of experience in online open source investigation/analysis/verification in the field of international human rights activities and/or international criminal investigations is desirable.
• Relevant working experience in or on the region is desirable. Relevant experience in, and/or training on open-source investigation and analysis is desirable