Position: Project Officer, Prison Reforms
Time Commitment: Full time (Remote)
Duration: 6 months, extendable up to December 2024.
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), India is an independent, non-partisan, human rights non-governmental organisation working for the practical realisation of human rights. Access to Information and Access to Justice are two focus areas of CHRI’s work. For more information, please visit: www.humanrightsinitiative.org .
CHRI is presently seeking a dynamic and articulate candidate for furthering its work on prison reforms in India. CHRI’s Prison Reforms Programme has worked in India for around 30 years. CHRI’s work is focused on increasing transparency of a traditionally closed system. A major area of work is checking gaps and failures of the legal system that result in terrible overcrowding and unconscionably long pre-trial detention and prison overstays, and engaging in interventions to ease this. We believe that attention to these areas will bring improvements to the administration of prisons as well as have a knock-on effect on the administration of justice overall.
The following position is vacant in its Prison Reforms Programme under the Access to Justice Programme:
Position: Project Officer, Prison Reforms
Job Description: Responsibilities include:
Essential Qualifications:
Desirable qualifications:
The selected candidate should be based in India, preferably in Bangalore/Delhi/ Guwahati/Kolkata, and may be required to travel within the country.
Salary: Remuneration will be commensurate with knowledge and experience levels.
Type of Appointment and duration: 6 months fixed term contract with a 1 month probation period. The contract may be extended up to December 2024, on mutual agreement.
To apply: Interested candidates may apply with a CV, a covering letter, two references and two writing samples of 2-4 pages to vinu@humanrightsinitiative.org with cc to madhurima@humanrightsinitiative.org.
Please use this subject line: Application: Prison Reforms Programme
Last date of submission is 8th March 2024. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered. We regret we cannot reply to every applicant. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.