Location: This position is usually located in our Nairobi, Kenya office, but is remote while offices remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Classification: This is a temporary consultancy for 6 a fixed period of months.
Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in Kenya.
Organization Description
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is a preeminent international advocacy and research organization that uses science and medicine to prevent mass atrocities and severe human rights violations. For more than 30 years, PHR has mobilized a community of clinicians and human rights professionals to advance human rights, public health, and social justice across the globe. In this time, it has become a trailblazer in its field, leading landmark investigations into crimes against humanity, and earning a 1997 Nobel Prize for its investigation of the health impact of land mines in Cambodia. PHR has also exposed the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Iraq, exhumed mass graves in Bosnia and Rwanda for international tribunals and provided evidence for criminal investigations into torture and extrajudicial executions.
Today, PHR is on the front lines of the most pressing human rights crises of our time, from the coup in Myanmar, to U.S. police violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The last year has only highlighted the critical importance of using science-based approaches to safeguard human rights, most particularly those of women and children, immigrants, refugees, detainees, and other populations at risk.
Recent highlights of PHR’s work include:
PHR’s vital work is sustained by a dynamic and deeply committed team of approximately 45 based in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also supported by a prominent Board and an annual operating budget of nearly $8-9M.
Role Description
PHR is excited to bring on board a dynamic, curious, and collaborative Program Associate in the Kenya Office who will be a member of the Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones (SVCZ). The Program Associate will offer support and work closely with the program team based in Kenya. The Program Associate will be fully responsible for providing day -to day overall assistance to the SVCZ Program team in implementation of the various projects. The Program Associate will equally play a pivotal role in ensuring that the projects implemented are well documented and reported in a results-based manner. The ideal candidate will be an excellent team player, action oriented, and detail oriented. The successful candidate will be expected to work independently, and collaboratively with colleagues across the organization.
Reports to: Head of Kenya Office
Responsibilities
· Contribute to and participate in the Organization’s strategic and annual planning processes;
Qualifications and Skills
The Program Associate should possess the following:
· A minimum of an undergraduate degree in Law, Public Health, Gender Studies, Human Rights, social sciences or any other related disciplines;
· Demonstrated understanding of human rights or related work including capacity
development and training, reporting, and advocacy;
· A minimum of 2 years’ experience in project conceptualization, design, implementation and reporting;
· Proficiency in written and spoken English, and Swahili;
· Excellent cross-cultural communication skills;
· Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a fast-paced, multi-faceted environment which requires multitasking;
· Ability, and willingness to travel domestically.
More information about Physicians for Human Rights can be found at www.phr.org.
This vacancy is archived.