Associate Human Rights Officer (Capacity-building)

The mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to work for the protection of all human rights for all people; to help empower people to realize their rights; and to assist those responsible for upholding such rights in ensuring that they are implemented. This position contributes to OHCHR's work on promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines by supporting the implementation of the UN Joint Programme on Human Rights. This is a programme bringing together the UN, Government and civil society on six key human rights issues. The programme is a result of a UN Human Rights Council Resolution.

OHCHR has deployed a Sr. Human Rights Advisor’s Unit to the Philippines since 2014. OHCHR contributes to technical cooperation and capacity-building for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines in the context of implementation of the UN-Philippine Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (SDCF) 2024-2028, in particular Outcome 1, on human capital development, inclusion and resilience-building. In this context, OHCHR mainstreams human rights, contributes to strengthening domestic hu-man rights institutions, and further strengthens capacity of national actors to protect and pro-mote human rights through implementation of the Fourth Philippine Human Rights Plan and other initiatives such as localization of human rights. The UNV will work primarily with national counterparts and civil society actors, to provide cohesive approaches in the areas of: strengthening domestic investigative and accountability mechanisms, civic space and engagement with civil society and the National Human Rights Commission, and supporting implementation of recommendations from international human rights mechanisms.

Under the supervision of the Sr. Human Rights Advisor, the Associate Human Rights Officer will support technical cooperation and capacity building in the following areas:
• Strengthening human rights education in relevant institutional / academic settings;
• Strengthening engagement with international human rights mechanisms;
• Promotion and protection of civic space and human rights defenders.

She/he will be responsible for conducting, amongst others, the following tasks, under the guidance of the Sr Human Rights Adviser and in collaboration with other team members and partners:
• Support roll-out of activities related to human rights mainstreaming, strengthening domestic human rights mechanism, human rights education for law enforcement and criminology schools and other related activities.
• Support the development of training modules to implement relevant recommendations from international human rights mechanisms.
• Facilitate training and provide technical support to national institutions, government actors and civil society organisations with attention to gender perspectives and disability inclusion.
• Assist with research on human rights issues and events and assess their impact on the human rights situation and the work of the UN Country Team.
• Develop and maintain contacts and relationships with relevant stakeholders and civil society organisations and represent OHCHR at working level meetings
• Assist in the preparation of a variety of written outputs that relate to the implementation of the areas of responsibility, such as background papers, monthly reports, briefings and presentations.
• Support coordination of work and administrative functions
• Perform other related duties as required.