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• Carrying out legal and policy research and
  analysis on international law, human rights law, and foreign and
  comparative law.
• Supporting the RDA program’s advocacy efforts
  by assisting with drafting legal petitions, policy briefs, briefing
  papers, internal memorandums, and other advocacy documents.
• Using editing skills to assist with
  fact-checking of reports, petitions, draft publications, and other
  documents as needed.
• Develop legal analyses of laws and bills in
  Uganda from a human rights perspective.
• Develop and share program meeting minutes.
• Constantly work in consultation and support
  of the Program Manager to implement health rights advocacy and
  documentation projects in line with the overall CEHURD Strategic Plan.
• Actively promote appropriate linkages between
  CEHURD’s other programs and the health rights advocacy and documentation
  work.
• Promote a rights based approach in
  programming work on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights.
• Develop health rights advocacy and
  documentation work plans and budgets.
• In charge of mapping and keeping data for the
  partners identified in health rights advocacy.
• Carry out parliamentary advocacy in health
  including keeping abreast with relevant parliamentary committees for
  example committee on health and human rights.
• Actively engaging with health rights related
  institutions in Uganda including the human rights commission.
• Carry out and engage in all activities
  involving the Ministry of Health in Uganda particularly the reproductive
  health thematic areas and the Maternal and Child Health processes.
• Organize and attend all meetings and training
  by CEHURD and or other relevant partners in advocacy for health.
• Provide support to proposal development
  processes in line with the strategic plan of CEHURD
• Engage in and carry out research in health
  related fields of particular interest to CEHURD in given periods of time.
• Coordinate work that is being implemented
  between the different programs of CEHURD.

• The ideal candidate for the Volunteer –
  Research, Documentation and Advocacy (RDA) vacancy should hold a
  bachelors’ degree in Law, Human Rights, Public Health or any related
  qualifications.
• Post Graduate qualification in any of the
  fields above and legal research will be an added advantage
• A minimum of three years’ experience working
  on advocacy issues
• The Volunteer should possess good research
  and analytical skills
• Good leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
  skills
• Team skills
• Good resource mobilization skills
• Innovative spirit and willingness to use
  creative thinking.

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