Business & Human Rights Specialist

Decentralization, Human Rights and Local Governance is a multi-sector venture aimed toward strengthening rights-based improvement, neighborhood stabilization, gender equality and social inclusion throughout all areas and provinces of Pakistan. The core goal of the venture is to make sure inclusive and equitable service supply by offering technical help and capability improvement assist to related federal ministries, provincial line departments, statutory our bodies, civil-society and personal sector organizations. A key purpose is to assist the creation of an enabling setting for accelerated entry to rights, individuals centered justice and folks centered safety. The venture is aimed toward establishment constructing whereas connecting with susceptible and at-risk communities to construct belief between rights holders and responsibility bearers, for inclusive, expeditious and clear entry to rights and companies. The Project will work with key UN companion businesses together with OHCHR, UNHCR, UNWOMEN, ILO and IOM in keeping with the One-UN technique to leaving no-one behind. Key beneficiaries will embody susceptible and at-risk males, ladies, women, transgender individuals, individuals with disabilities in addition to marginalized and susceptible populations usually. UNDP will leverage its partnerships with authorities, statutory our bodies, non-public sector and civil-society stakeholders on the nationwide and sub-national ranges for the institutionalization of a rights-based method to improvement throughout Pakistan. A cross-cutting programmatic space of the DHL venture is its interventions associated to supporting the multistakeholder implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights in Pakistan.

The Business & Human Rights Specialist will work underneath the supervision of the Rights Based Development Expert and shall be accountable of:

• Lead implementation of the Business & Human Rights (BHR) pillar of the EU funded Human Rights Project throughout Pakistan in keeping with donor necessities, guaranteeing strategic alignment of actions with different related programmatic priorities together with environmental justice, social inclusion, training and gender equality.
• Provide capability improvement assist to the Government of Pakistan on roll out of key initiatives underneath the EU venture comparable to mid-term overview of the National Action Plan on BHR (NAP-BHR), drafting of two^nd NAP, and federal & provincial coordination for ongoing implementation of the NAP
• Regularly coordinate with UNDP’s Global Business & Human Rights group—underneath the Global Programme for Strengthening the Rule of Law, Human Rights, Justice and Security for Sustainable Peace and Development—to make sure synchronization of UNDP Pakistan’s BHR initiatives with regional and world tendencies
• Regularly monitor and disseminate BHR associated nationwide and worldwide updates related to programmatic implementation to worldwide funding companions, particularly the EU.
• Providing technical recommendation to the Procurement Officer in contracting certified and monitoring progress in opposition to deliverables of Individual Contractors, Vendors, Implementing Partners and personal sector organizations to make sure high-quality and well timed technical supply in assist of the BHR pillar. 
• Lead the preparation of idea notes, venture proposals and budgeted workplans for submission to potential funding companions for enlargement and sustainability of UNDP’s BHR interventions in Pakistan.
• Coordinate with authorities counterparts for trade of finest practices on efficient rights-based improvement between provinces.
• Ensure alignment and linkages of DHL’s BHR and environmental justice programming,  significantly harmonization of capacity-building initiatives for the non-public sector on human rights & environmental due diligence. 
• Coordinate with the venture’s topic specialists and consultants, together with different thematic leads for the EU venture (governance; human rights training; and NHRIs) and provincial Project Officers in to make sure a cohesive method to implementation between the provinces.
• Contribute to South-South peer studying actions on Business & Human Rights and rights-based digital governance
• Support participation of Pakistani stakeholders in BHR-related nationwide, regional, and world occasions to advertise Pakistan’s initiatives on BHR, and leverage alternatives for international-peer studying 
• Supporting the Operations Manager to make sure the implementation of UNDP Procedures and Policies within the Project’s actions underneath the BHR Pillar.

Establish partnerships and open channels of communication.

• Conduct evaluation of donor funding methods, state priorities and beneficiary calls for – with a selected concentrate on human rights ecosystem because it pertains to enterprise exercise in Pakistan
• Build and handle partnerships with stakeholders representing authorities, non-public sector, civil society and others associated to present venture actions and figuring out future alternatives
• Design and develop idea notes and venture proposals together with aligning monetary assets in accordance with UNDP company necessities. 
• Coordinate throughout the UN system, together with different UNDP Projects in addition to focal factors of different UN businesses to construct synergies and develop coordinated and joint initiatives associated to Business & Human Rights 
• Present thematic and evidence-based updates figuring out programmatic alternatives to worldwide funding companions, donor organisations and authorities counterparts as and when wanted

Monitor and report on progress in implementing venture actions and attaining the targets set.

• Lead BHR reporting and updates for inner and exterior stakeholders, together with DGU, Country Office, RBAP, donors, and so on. 
• Prepare common reviews on actions, outputs and outcomes for inner and exterior consumption 
• Liaise with the UNDP CO for strategic communication, reporting and coordination – whereas offering steering to DHL Provincial Project Officers, ICs, and different related employees on a synergetic method to venture reporting and communication
• Conduct periodic visits to the venture implementation areas to overview compliance with the required UNDP procedures 
• Support the CTA in preparation of venture’s mid-term, annual and terminal reviews 
• Assist to conferences required within the body of the venture with authorities and non-government fora on Business & Human Rights

The incumbent performs different duties inside their purposeful profile as deemed vital for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.