Associate Human Rights Officer – Sudan Response

Supports the OHCHR Sudan crisis response from Nairobi by mainstreaming rights in humanitarian coordination, monitoring violations affecting women, girls and persons with disabilities, training civil society and local responders, and strengthening documentation, advocacy and protection pathways.

Department: Leave No One Behind and Humanitarian Unit

• Integrate protection and human-rights standards into humanitarian frameworks
• Monitor violations of human-rights and humanitarian law
• Document abuses affecting women, girls and persons with disabilities
• Train civil society and local responders on gender, disability and inclusion
• Support programmes protecting human-rights defenders and women-led organisations
• Strengthen documentation, advocacy and protection-referral pathways
• Coordinate human-rights inputs with UN humanitarian and development partners

• Experience working with civil society, human-rights defenders or local humanitarian responders
• Experience applying gender and Leave No One Behind principles
• Experience monitoring and reporting human-rights violations from a gender perspective
• English proficiency

• UN Volunteer specialist assignment for 365 days
• Nairobi-based support to the Sudan Country Office crisis response