A vacancy of Associate Human Rights Officer is open for the  OSCE ( Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) nationalities.

About OSCE

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world’s largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. It has its origins in the 1975 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki, Finland. The OSCE is concerned with early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management, and post-conflict rehabilitation. Its 57 participating states are located in Europe, northern and central Asia, and North America.

Roles and Responsibilities of Associate Human Rights Officer

The Associate Human Rights Officer shall perform the following functions and duties under the supervision of the Adviser on Anti-Terrorism Issues,

1. Monitoring and analyzing national anti-terrorism legislation and practices and country-specific developments with regard to factors that may violate human rights or engender terrorism or relate to the prevention of terrorism and of violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT);
2. Preparing general and issue-specific reports and/or other background materials related to human rights in the prevention and combating of terrorism for ODIHR management;
3. Assisting with identifying, developing and implementing programmatic activities and projects, including training on key human rights issues arising in the anti-terrorism context for/with non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations, governmental authorities and OSCE staff and missions;
4. Responding to requests to ODIHR for information about the implementation of OSCE human dimension commitments in preventing and countering terrorism and VERLT;
5. Building alliances and networks with independent experts, international and national governmental and non-governmental actors;
6. Performing other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Requirements

• university degree in law or related field
• minimum of four years of experience in the field of human rights and/or criminal justice at international level
• advance English language and computer literate (Microsoft)
• ability to work in a team with people of different national, cultural and professional backgrounds
• excellent knowledge of UN and CoE human rights standards and OSCE human dimension commitments
• familiarity with capacity building initiatives in the criminal justice, police and/or security sectors
• working knowledge of international legal standards as applied in terrorism, war crimes or serious organized crime cases would be plus