Overview
The Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Afghanistan will provide overall strategic and management guidance to the Mechanism, ensuring the implementation of its mandate to collect, consolidate, preserve, and analyse evidence of international crimes and violations.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure implementation of the Mechanism’s mandate by providing coordination and direction.
- Manage and provide substantive leadership to staff members.
- Ensure timely reporting on the main activities of the Mechanism.
- Provide overall direction and supervision for the collection, consolidation, preservation, and analysis of information and evidence.
- Oversee the Mechanism’s efforts to facilitate and support fair and independent proceedings.
- Ensure the integration of victims-centred, gender and child rights approaches.
- Maintain relationships with Member States, other UN agencies, international organizations, and NGOs.
- Oversee the administration and management of the Mechanism, including budget process and resource mobilization.
- Oversee the respect and compliance with security risk management measures and security protocols.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible work experience in criminal justice is required, with extensive experience in conducting and leading criminal investigations or prosecutions of international crimes and/or criminal judicial or other accountability proceedings.
- Experience engaging with Member States and other key stakeholders as well as in building partnerships at the international level is required.
- Proven track record of excellent management, including results-based management and experience managing staff, budgets and planning, is required.
- Expertise in the areas of sexual and gender-based crimes and justice for children is desirable.
- Experience in collecting and/or sharing of information on complex international crimes in the context of judicial proceedings is desirable.
- Expertise with international criminal law and international human rights law is desirable.
- Experience implementing policies, procedures and strategies of the United Nations or similar organizations, including the commitment to the goal of gender balance in staffing operations is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced University Degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in law is required. A first level university degree in law in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
