Witness Engagement Consultant – Ukraine Monitoring Initiative

Supports ODIHR's Ukraine Monitoring Initiative by identifying, vetting and engaging witnesses of alleged international humanitarian and human-rights-law violations. The roster consultant liaises with civil-society actors and authorities, prepares witness information for monitoring teams, arranges interview logistics and travel, and advises deployments on appropriate interviewee profiles and local context.

• Determine suitable interviewee profiles with the monitoring team
• Liaise with local actors to identify potential interviewees
• Contact and vet potential witnesses
• Collect and present witness information for monitoring missions
• Arrange interviewees' travel and accommodation for interviews
• Support secure transfer of relevant media to ODIHR digital storage platforms
• Attend interviews for their duration
• Conduct meetings with civil-society representatives, authorities and stakeholders

• First-level university degree in law, history, social sciences, international relations or a related field
• At least two years of relevant work experience
• Understanding of human-rights issues arising from the armed conflict and displacement patterns affecting refugees and internally displaced people
• Knowledge of the local context for Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced people
• Fluency in English, Ukrainian and Russian
• Availability to travel within the country of operation

• Previous civil-society or human-rights-sector experience

• Witness Engagement
• Human Rights Monitoring
• Witness Interview Preparation
• Stakeholder Liaison
• Humanitarian Law
• Human Rights Law
• Conflict Analysis
• Displacement Analysis
• Information Management
• Gender Mainstreaming

• Digital Storage Platforms

• Roster selection for future assignments
• Apply through the OSCE online application portal