Overview
Assists in furthering OSCE anti-trafficking commitments among participating States by providing assistance in policy and legal analysis, organizing meetings and conferences, and supporting research and publications.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the analysis of political, legal and human-dimension developments in participating States related to trafficking in human beings (THB).
- Collecting and analysing regional trends.
- Preparing comparative assessments against international standards.
- Providing conclusions and recommendations to inform policy development, legal reform and potential OSCE commitments.
- Developing research concepts and terms of reference for background studies and occasional papers.
- Supervising contracted experts.
- Conducting regional, country or sectoral analyses.
- Collecting and analysing information from participating States, international organizations, NGOs and other partners.
- Identifying good practices.
- Supporting strategic planning.
- Ensuring regular updates to the Special Representative on key developments and emerging trends.
- Drafting, editing and finalizing high-quality written outputs.
- Maintaining regular working-level contacts with delegations of participating States and Partners for Co-operation, relevant authorities, NGOs, OSCE institutions, field operations and international organizations.
- Contributing to the assessment of national and regional anti-trafficking programmes.
- Participating in project development and content formulation.
- May act as project manager.
- Supporting efforts to secure extra-budgetary funding.
- Organizing meetings, workshops, technical seminars and conferences.
- Preparing related background materials, agendas and correspondence.
- Performing additional administrative, logistical and operational tasks as assigned.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven years (five years with a relevant second-level degree) of progressively responsible professional-level experience in anti-trafficking, human rights, rule of law, migration, or related fields within international, governmental, or civil society organizations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of THB and anti-trafficking stakeholders at national and international levels.
- Experience in the implementation of multi-lateral policy and practice activities related to human trafficking, including in areas of prevention, prosecution and/or protection and assistance.
- Experience in the areas of vulnerability analysis and/or emerging issues such as use of technology and financial investigation desirable.
Qualifications
First-level university degree in international relations, international development, public international law, human rights law, social or political sciences or related subjects.
