UNDP Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Programme – Human Rights Analyst! – YOA

Deadline: May 5, 2026

The UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) JPO Programme equips excellent younger leaders with the abilities and expertise required to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and make a optimistic difference on the earth. As a pathway into the world of growth, the programme affords younger professionals wonderful publicity to multilateral cooperation and sustainable growth whereas offering a precious entry level into the UN system.

During their assignments, JPOs profit from the steerage of skilled UNDP workers members and are actively concerned in supporting the design and implementation of UNDP’s applications inside UNDP’s headquarters, regional or nation places of work. Additionally, the JPO will bear a journey of publicity and progress which can construct each private {and professional} capability for a profession inside the multilateral growth sector.

As a JPO and younger skilled in UNDP try to be thinking about pursuing a worldwide profession with aspiration to work for a area-primarily based group in help of the event agenda.

About the Role

Job Title: Human Rights Analyst
Duty Station: Lilongwe, Malawi
Contract Duration: 1 12 months FTA, renewable not less than as soon as topic to passable efficiency, advice by respective workplace and accomplice nation settlement

As part of its interventions, UNDP contributes to the nationwide imaginative and prescient by supporting the accessibility, affordability and acceptability of rule of regulation providers and the safety of human rights, knowledgeable by a coherent idea of change and thoroughly designed actions to realize outputs and contribute to final result stage change that impacts the lives of strange Malawians.

The Human Rights Analyst will help the enhancement of the capacities of the varied justice and safety establishments, strengthening entry to justice, safety and safety providers, particularly for weak teams together with the LGBTQI inhabitants, ladies, kids, individuals with albinism, individuals affected by local weather and environmental disasters and individuals with disabilities.

The Human Rights Analyst might be chargeable for guaranteeing help and provision of technical recommendation for the achievement of Pillar targets and outcomes. S/he’ll work in shut collaboration with the Programme Support Unit and different undertaking groups, Government officers, technical advisors and specialists, implementing companions, donors, beneficiaries and civil society with the intention to guarantee well timed and excessive-high quality supply of Pillar actions.

Benefits

The JPO will profit from the next studying and growth alternatives:

• Participation in a digital Programme Policy and Operations Induction Course inside the first 4 to six months of project
• Use of yearly JPO responsibility-associated journey and coaching allocation (DTTA), as per the web DTTA information
• On-going Masterclasses on related and galvanizing themes
• Career growth help mechanisms and actions
• Networking with fellow JPOs, younger professionals and senior UNDP colleagues
• Mentoring programme
• Other coaching and studying alternatives

Eligibility

• Education: Advanced college diploma (Master’s Degree or equal) in Law, International Human Rights, Development Studies or different Social Sciences is required.
• Experience, Knowledge, and Skills
  • A minimal of two years (with grasp’s diploma) of paid working expertise with human rights establishments, authorities establishments or related establishments is required.
  • Experience in producing prime quality stories is required.
  • Experience in conceptualizing, growing, planning and managing programme interventions, in addition to transfering data and expertise is required.
  • Experience utilizing Microsoft programmes together with Excel, PowerPoint and Word is required.
  • Experience in worldwide human rights programs and mechanisms is desired.
  • Experience selling human rights particularly for weak teams is desired.
  • Fluency in English is required.
• Eligible nationalities:
  Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Palestine, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania (United Republic of), Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia.

Application

Applications can solely be submitted on-line by the Online Web Application instrument (OWA) of the UN/DESA Office in Rome. Each candidate can apply for a most of two JPO positions.

Click here to apply.

The application deadline is Tuesday, 5 May 2026, at 3:00 p.m. (CET / Italian native time).

For extra info, go to UNDP JPO.