ESCR Monitoring Tool Consultant

Develops an economic, social and cultural rights monitoring tool for Malaysia with OHCHR and SUHAKAM. The consultant maps laws and data, designs structural, process and outcome indicators, facilitates validation, and delivers a final indicator matrix and user guidance for monitoring health, work and social security rights.

• Analyse Malaysia’s rights-to-health, work and social-security context and data gaps
• Map human-rights standards, laws, policies and mechanism recommendations
• Design structural, process and outcome indicators with benchmarks and data sources
• Integrate disaggregation and accountability into the framework
• Facilitate validation and finalise the tool, indicator matrix and user guide

• Advanced degree in a relevant field, or a first degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• At least five years of economic, social and cultural rights research and analysis in Malaysia
• Experience in human-rights monitoring using indicators and socioeconomic or budgetary data
• Malay language proficiency

• Work focuses on Malaysia from 17 July to 20 November 2026
• Structured duty station is Geneva