Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a human rights officer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a human rights officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Human rights officers investigate and handle human rights violations, as well as develop plans to reduce violations and to ensure compliance to human rights legislation. They investigate complaints by examining information and interviewing victims and perpetrators, and communicate with organisations involved with human rights activities.

Also known as human rights project officer, human rights program officer, human rights lawyer, human rights programme officer.

Professionals 31 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: ombudsman, 33%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
ombudsman 33% covered immigration policy officer 32% covered youth programme director 31% covered court jury coordinator 31% covered mediator 26% covered human rights officer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from human rights officer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a human rights officer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A human rights officer needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • investigate human rights violations information skills
  • support victims of human rights violations assisting and caring
  • international human rights law business, administration and law
  • promote human rights implementation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • promote social awareness communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on legal decisions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • facilitate official agreement communication, collaboration and creativity
  • conduct research interview communication, collaboration and creativity
  • social justice social sciences, journalism and information
  • establish collaborative relations communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a human rights officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Human rights officer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a human rights officer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.