Overview
This assignment supports OHCHR ESARH in implementing sustainable environmental management practices and advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment (R2HE). The role involves research, analysis, reporting, and coordination to reduce OHCHR's environmental footprint and integrate R2HE considerations into programming.
Key Responsibilities
- Advance the implementation of OHCHR’s environmental sustainability policy through engagement with staff, capacity building, and awareness-raising activities on sustainable environmental management.
- Support greenhouse gas (GHG) data preparation, collection, and reporting for OHCHR East and Southern Africa Regional Hub (ESARH) and its country presences through the Greening the Blue initiative, in compliance with the United Nations (UN) Sustainability Strategy 2020–2030.
- Support office-wide advocacy related to sustainable environmental management (SEM) and human rights, including coordination of environmental assessments, audits, and the establishment, implementation, and monitoring of green initiatives to enhance environmental action.
- Research and collect information pertaining to the Right to a Healthy Environment (R2HE) and its impact on human rights from a variety of data sources (e.g., communications, publications, the press) to keep abreast of issues and events, providing up-to-date information; assist in the analysis of this information.
- Assist in drafting a variety of reports and correspondence relating to R2HE, environmental sustainability, and their impact on human rights.
- Support regional mapping, comparative analysis, and identification of cross-border environmental human rights trends across East Africa.
- Support engagement with government counterparts, the African Union Commission and its human rights organs, UN partners, development actors, and civil society working on climate, clean air, environmental, and social governance.
- Assist in supporting engagements by the human rights mechanisms, including treaty bodies, special procedures, and the universal periodic review.
Required Experience
- 3 years of experience in human rights and activism, climate change, sustainability, or related fields.
- Experience in human rights, environmental policy, environmental assessment and audit, research, monitoring, advocacy, or related fields.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Law and Human Rights, Environmental Sciences, Political Sciences, International Relations, Social Sciences or any related field.
