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The primary focus of the Human Rights Advisor will be to provide technical support to USAID Missions on the above-mentioned areas (countering restrictions to civil and political rights, expanding acce... The primary focus of the Human Rights Advisor will be to provide technical support to USAID Missions on the above-mentioned areas (countering restrictions to civil and political rights, expanding access to justice, addressing threats to physical security, advancing legal empowerment, and applying rights-based approaches). This technical assistance to Missions will be provided remotely from Washington or via short-term temporary duty (TDY) travel. The Advisor will provide that support directly via consultation (e.g. responding to Mission requests for assistance with assessments, designs, identification of best practices, training, etc.) or indirectly through the development and maintenance of field support resources such as the supplemental funds that Missions can access or pre-competed program mechanisms that help Missions establish respond to urgent needs. Under the direction of the JRS team lead, and in partnership with other JRS team members, the Advisor will work closely with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including other DRG colleagues and divisions, USAID staff in other bureaus and operating units, interagency colleagues, and implementing partners. Duties and responsibilities of the position: Respond to USAID Missions’ requests for rights-related technical assistance in all phases of the USAID Program Cycle. This will include assisting Missions with human rights assessments during various planning phases to determine needs, opportunities and entry points for assistance efforts. It will also entail providing technical input and guidance to Missions on the design of rights-related programs and activities, helping Missions identify and apply state-of-the-art and evidence-based approaches. Technical assistance may also involve helping Missions with the monitoring and evaluation of field programs, for various purposes, but primarily to help Missions adapt their programs and activities to changing circumstances and to further expand our sector’s evidence base and learning. Technical requests from Missions may be simple or complex, but responding quickly, clearly, and thoroughly is a core “field support” aim of the Center and JRS team, and is the top priority for the HR Advisor. Expand, maintain and reflect technical expertise on the effective use of assistance programs to protect human rights and expand access to justice. In particular, the Human Rights Advisor will increase the Center’s institutional capacity related to applying state of the art approaches for countering restrictions to civil and political rights, expanding access to justice, addressing threats to physical security, advancing legal empowerment, and applying rights-based approaches). This will involve engagement and convening of the broader DRG community of practice (including implementing partners and other practitioners), working with DRG’s Evidence and Learning Team to expand USAID’s evidence base through original research and literature reviews, and efforts to capture and document USAID Mission and individual DRG officers’ experiences. Translate state-of-the-art technical expertise into tools and guidance that can be easily shared and absorbed by USAID field officers. JRS is interested in developing or improving resources that help field officers diagnose human rights challenges, identify entry points for programming, examine circumstances under which various approaches are appropriate or not, assess levels of risk, or apply key evidence that DRG’s Learning Agenda has identified, among other purposes. While there are several ways in which DRG currently shares information with the field, we are looking to expand those modalities moving forward. Those may include offline or online toolkits, the development and delivery of in-person or distance learning training modules, and technical contributions to public platforms such as USAID’s Learning Lab, among others. Provide technical input on the use of flagship JRS team field support resources, such as global programming mechanisms and JRS-managed incentive and contingency funds. The Human Rights Advisor will be asked to contribute to frequent technical discussions related to determining both the priorities and approaches for where and how these resources are applied. This will include discussions on the deployment of rapid response funds that are managed by the JRS team to assist Missions in need, the use of Human Rights Grants Program funding, among others. The Human Rights Advisor will also help the JRS team assess the effectiveness of these tools and identify ways in which they might be improved or modified to better support the field. Provide specific technical input into various policy, planning and reporting processes on rights or justice-related issues for both internal and external audiences, when directed by the JRS team lead, and as appropriate.