Overview
Managing the Human Rights Section to ensure governmental institutions and legislation promote reforms for improved human rights access, tolerance, non-discrimination, and strengthened social, economic, and fundamental freedoms. Leading the development and implementation of the Section's annual activity plan and budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing the Human Rights Section.
- Leading the development and implementation of the Human Rights Section's annual activity plan and budget.
- Overseeing ongoing legislative review and revisions, as well as monitoring and reporting on effective implementation of the country's human dimension commitments.
- Ensuring close contacts with relevant national human rights institutions, executive and legislative authorities, law enforcement, social protection workers, civil society groups and others engaged in the relevant thematic areas.
- Overseeing and co-ordinating the implementation of capacity building activities and technical assistance.
- Co-ordinating the Mission's engagement s to promote the implementation of the Annex 7 of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
- Acting as Roma Action Focal Point of the Mission.
- Providing support to HDD Management in human resources planning.
- Assisting the HDD Management with programme development and strategy formulation.
- Representing the Mission and co-ordinating with international and domestic organizations active in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
- Integrating project evaluation and long-term impact assessment practices into all policy and project work.
- Identifying cross-cutting synergies among the respective areas of Mission engagement.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- Minimum 6 years (8 years with a relevant first-level university degree) of relevant, diversified and progressively responsible professional experience including at least 3 years at the management level relevant to the actual position.
- Experience working with human rights, minority or gender issues.
- Experience in drafting reports.
- Experience in human rights programme development and political analysis, including the production of reports, verbal and written briefings.
- Detailed understanding of both the human rights situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in particular its institutions and bodies (at all levels of government), key legislation, and the overall political situation.
- Leadership qualities including ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
- Experience of working in a programmatic/strategic planning role using a results-based management approach.
- Experience in programme and project management, including in planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
- Demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity, and an ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities.
- Practical experience using Microsoft applications.
Qualifications
Second-level university degree in political sciences, international relations, public policy, law, international human rights law or other human rights related fields. A first-level university degree in combination with two years of additional qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the second-level university degree.
