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Great Opportunity: x2 Assistant Vacancies Available at United Nations for September 2024

Position: x2 Assistants
Organization: United Nations
Location: Various
Target Audience: Entry Level / All Nationalities
Deadline: 13 Sept – 3 Oct

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United Nations is hiring 2 Assistants for the vacancies available in different locations for September 2024. Entry level professionals are encouraged to apply before the deadline. The diversity of our people, some 36,000 staff from all 193 of our Member States, means that you will find yourself working in multi-cultural teams with people from all backgrounds and cultures who have wide perspectives, experiences, expectations, as well as approaches.

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Available Vacancies

1. ASSISTANT HUMAN RIGHTS Office (TJO)

Job ID : 242616
Job Network : Political, Peace and Humanitarian
Job Family : Human Rights Affairs
Category and Level : National Professional Officers, NO-A
Duty Station : PORT MORESBY
Department/Office : Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Deadline : Sep 13, 2024

Org. Setting and Reporting

This position is located in the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator (UNRC), in Port-Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The Assistant Human Rights Officer reports to the Human Rights Advisor in Papua New Guinea.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Assistant Human Rights Officer will be responsible for the following duties:
Researches and collects information pertaining to human rights matters, including their gender dimensions, from a variety of data sources (e.g., communications, publications, the press) to keep abreast of issues and events and provide up-to-date information.
Drafts a variety of reports and correspondence relating to human rights matters.
Participates in monitoring and observing trials and prepares summaries of results.
Maintains awareness of current human rights issues, to include relevant political and legal developments in the country.
Assists with human rights training programs for national law enforcement officials, representatives of civil society, and human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in order to promote national capacity building.
Assists in the reviews of human rights issues, including their gender dimensions, and participates in discussions with other Human Rights Officers (HROs) on the integration of these issues into political, economic, and development-related programs.
Assists in promoting efforts for community mobilisation and those that focus on exercise of rights of population.
Participates with other HROs in discussions with relevant authorities and other influential actors with the aim of stopping or preventing human rights violations or seeks other remedial action by the authorities to prevent similar violations occurring in the future.
Assists his/her supervisor in liaising with government, NHRI, NGOs, civil society organizations, UN agencies, and other partners to create baseline data on the human rights situation, with special attention to vulnerable groups.
Prepares preliminary versions of speeches, presentations, and communications issued by the Chief of the Office.
Performs other related duties as required.

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Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Chief Documents Control Unit, and within the framework of United Nations documentation (parliamentary, publications, and others) accepted for processing by DMS Geneva for translation, pre-editing, post-editing, text processing, and any other related tasks, and to that end, the incumbent:
Determines the parts of the submissions that require specific treatment in light of the special instructions added by Documents Control and submitters in gDoc.
Where the Reprise Calculator cannot be applied, it determines the reprise text of previously translated UN official documents based on all relevant information provided by the submitter and marked-up copies to establish if the document consists of any additional text that may have been taken from another source and that was not identified as such.
Verifies, if any, corrections indicated after referencing in the documents submitted for evaluation.
Verifies the number of words to be edited, translated, and/or revised as determined by the Reprise Calculator and enters the credits in gDoc with any pertinent remarks about the credit for editing, translation, or revision.
Uploads to gDoc the files with indication of reprises and shares them (if necessary) with in-house or contractual translation.
Enters in gDoc the credit for all translation work processes, including editing, translation, text processing, and proofreading, for all submissions accepted for processing, including through workshares with other duty stations.
Monitors required corrections and re-evaluates submissions/jobs considering corrections or reissuances and undertakes any updates to credits already assigned.
When pertinent, converts files such as PDF and VISIO into MS Word prior to undertaking evaluation of jobs that come with images or parts of documents in these formats.
Assists with the collection and analysis of data as well as the preparation of data presentations and reports for information sharing, responding to queries, knowledge management, planning, and decision-making.
Performs other duties as assigned.