Project Manager – Business and Human Rights

 UNDP works to eradicate poverty and cut back inequalities by means of the sustainable growth of countries, in additional than 170 nations and territories. The Regional Bureau of Asia has the duty to information and assist 24 Country Offices in attaining the targets of UNDP’s Strategic Plan.  RBAP workers offers technical recommendation to Country Offices, governments and different related stakeholders; advocates for UNDP company messages and represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora together with public-personal dialogues, authorities and civil society dialogues, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives, and engages in UN inter-company coordination in particular thematic areas.

Rapid and continued financial dynamism has translated into progress and diminished poverty ranges in a number of nations in Asia and the Pacific. Greater overseas direct investments and capital actions, accentuated by greater regional mobility, are causes for additional optimism for future regional progress. This progress has typically come on the expense of the human rights of minorities, marginalized and deprived and at-threat teams within the curiosity of investments and monetary features.

The UNDP Asia-Pacific, Governance and Peacebuilding Team, Business and Human Rights Unit, is at the moment engaged in selling the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP). The UNGP clarifies states’ obligation and companies’ duty to uphold worldwide norms and treaties on human rights. These Guiding Principles relaxation on three pillars: 1) the State’s obligation to guard human rights; 2) the company duty to respect human rights; and; 3) the joint duty of each the State and companies sector to offer entry to treatment for victims of enterprise-associated abuses.

Momentum supporting the implementation of the UNGPs by means of National Action Plans (NAPs) is creating shortly within the area. Nurturing this, an already properly-developed group of trade advocates, human rights activists, and growth practitioners are deepening their work on all kinds of thematic space or trade-particular BHR actions. While main nationwide and multi-nationwide firms are embedding human rights due diligence approaches into their operational insurance policies and company communication profiles.

The venture Business and Human Rights in Asia – Promoting Responsible Business Practices by means of Regional Partnerships (B+HR Asia) goals at strengthening the regional momentum on enterprise and human rights in Asia. The regional venture is targeted on seven Asian nations; Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam and implements a broad vary of actions concentrating on quite a lot of stakeholders, together with governments, state officers, members of the enterprise sector, Civil Society Organizations, National Human Rights Institutions, UN entities and worldwide organizations, and influencers within the space of enterprise, human rights and financial coverage with funding from the Government of Sweden.

The Project Manager, Business and Human Rights, primarily based in Bangkok, is accountable for contributing to coverage and venture assist in Asia and the focused nations of the venture and past. The incumbent will present day-to-day administration for Business, and Human Rights venture planning, administration, closing closure and reporting whereas guaranteeing venture outputs are delivered. In doing so, the incumbent will undertake coverage analysis, develop data merchandise, and assist communication, partnership-constructing and useful resource mobilization. The incumbent may also lead in creating a possible new section of the venture and managing donor communications for a similar. S/he will probably be contributing as a part of the B+HR Portfolio on the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub.

S/he acts beneath the steerage of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Regional Advisor in response to requests from nation workplaces and in collaboration with the Governance and Peacebuilding workforce. S/he works with groups throughout the Regional Hub, Country Offices, Global Policy Centers and the UN system to make sure the execution of high quality and coherent coverage and venture advisory companies inside their area in addition to alignment with the Strategic Plan. S/he’s accountable for performing and contributing to the next:

• Project Management (together with the closure of the venture)
• Research, Knowledge Management, and Technical Support
• Strategic Partnerships, Communications and Resource Mobilization 
• Supervision of Staff 
   

Lead and Advise on Project Management

• Leads venture administration by means of efficient planning, administration, monitoring and coordination with companions and nation workplaces;
• Lead implementation of the monitoring, analysis, and outcomes framework to establish plan deviations, underperformance, and different issues. Support diagnosing issues and guarantee accountability for corrective actions inside agreed upon tolerances to attain outcomes. 
• Provide management and technical recommendation to the venture in creating baselines and indicators for venture monitoring and analysis, and coordinate the finalization of detailed outcomes framework.
• Manage the supply of the Annual Work Plan and day-to-day venture actions to make sure immediate and ample outcome achievement and to make sure 100% supply of the venture outputs.
• Provide oversight and steerage for the ultimate venture closure together with closing analysis of the venture and put together administration’s response to the ultimate analysis; Conduct discipline visits as required to confirm venture actions relative to said targets and present common discipline updates to UNDP/BRH administration as required.
• Ensure methods, processes, programs, and mechanisms are in place to successfully fulfill programme and monetary monitoring, analysis, high quality assurance and reporting necessities.
• Proactively carry out threat assessments to establish and doc dangers associated to the venture, together with operational, monetary, authorized, contractual, social, environmental, status and security dangers. Design mitigation measures and hold applicable venture governing our bodies knowledgeable.
• Coordinate the preparation of company, donor and authorities stories in keeping with the reporting schedule and UNDP and donor necessities. Ensure provision of advert hoc stories and info requested by related entities, together with highlighting key points, tendencies, rising alternatives, dangers, potential venture companions, and entry factors for the regional programme in focus nations;
• Establish steady liaison and collaboration with inside and exterior stakeholders to make sure efficient relationships, monitor venture outcomes and spotlight potential dangers to venture supply;
• Engage and coordinate intently as a part of the regional Business and Human Rights portfolio on the Bangkok Regional Hub.

Research, Knowledge Management, and Technical Support and Advice

• Provide technical and advisory companies to assist nation workplaces in creating and implementing nation stage work-streams on Business and Human Rights and present some other Technical Assistance within the implementation of the regional programme at nation-stage;
• Conduct knowledgeable visits to focus nations in Asia and the Pacific to offer excessive-stage recommendation to authorities businesses, personal sector actors, UN system entities, regional organizations, civil society, and National Human Rights Institutions;
• Provide analytical inputs and technical advisory companies on Business and Human Rights National Action Plans, laws, methods and initiatives, together with facilitating discussions on key nation-particular points that may be included right into a NAP, offering feedback on baseline assessments, and National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights in addition to supporting coverage coherence amongst completely different coverage paperwork.
• Coordinate the manufacturing of excessive-stage analysis and evaluation for coverage recommendation and programme assist that responds to the area and nation workplace wants and confirm that data sharing and content material administration are in keeping with pointers and carried out utilizing company instruments;
• Organize consciousness-elevating regional occasions on Business and Human Rights to trade greatest practices, encourage a regional race-to-the-high to develop NAPs, and keep momentum;
• Liaise with related venture companions to share applicable assets; classes learnt, and greatest practices; 
• Conduct coaching and workshops for governments, companies, civil society organizations and academia on Business and Human Rights and seize alternatives to make use of the implementation of the UNGPs as an instrument to strengthen gender equality and promote communities rights.
• Facilitate south-south trade and peer studying alternatives to share greatest practices amongst related stakeholders;
• Support UNDP senior administration (together with at nation stage) with drafting speeches and speaking factors on Business and Human Rights, as required.
• Support institution of information platforms and modern mechanisms for capturing and disseminating data from the venture; and guarantee growth of information assets and merchandise to share with venture companions and to assist UNDP’s engagement on this space.
• Actively take part in and make substantive contributions to exterior networks and communities of observe to advertise advocacy for UNDP’s work and alternatives for collaboration in addressing growth tendencies. Represent UNDP in related technical conferences and working teams beneath the route of CO administration.

Ensure and advise on Strategic Partnerships, Communications and Resource Mobilization

• Develop and keep lively relationship and partnerships with the Governments, NGOs, the UN system and growth companions, institutes, academia, the media, and personal sector on Business and Human Rights to reinforce collaboration, useful resource mobilization and/or share concepts and to affect agenda and precedence setting.
• Coordinate occasions with companions and stakeholders to offer excessive visibility to the thematic space and put together coverage supplies, briefing notes and speeches; 
•  Cultivate new working relationships with rising enterprise and human rights companions within the venture focus nations.
• Strengthen regional enterprise and human rights structure amongst UN businesses and companion organizations.
• Assist with useful resource mobilization, together with by means of the event of idea notes and venture paperwork; 
• Keep updated with different growth companions working within the space of Business and Human Rights;
• Support partnerships, advocacy, and capability-constructing actions within the areas lined by the venture to all stakeholders;
• Represent UNDP Asia-Pacific Business and Human Rights Portfolio at international, regional and nationwide occasions on Business and Human Rights.

Supervision of venture workers

• The Project Manager will supervise the workers primarily based in Bangkok Regional Hub and nationwide BHR specialists in venture nations. In addition, the Project Manager may also supervise consultants and businesses employed to ship venture actions.

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

People Management 

• UNDP People Management Competencies might be discovered within the devoted site.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

2030 Agenda: Peace    

• Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights.  Human rights/HRBA. Human Rights establishments/compliance
• Gender. Women’s financial empowerment, together with labor points

Business Management    

• Results- Based Management. Ability to handle programmes and initiatives with focus at improved efficiency and display outcome. 

External Relations & Advocacy    

• Partnerships administration. Ability to construct and keep partnerships with large networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and personal sector companions, specialists and different in-line with UNDP technique and insurance policies

Business Direction and Strategy    

• System Thinking. Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated components coexist inside an general course of or system, and to think about how altering one ingredient can impression on different components of the system
• Strategic considering. Ability to develop efficient methods and prioritized plans in keeping with UNDP’s targets, primarily based on the systemic evaluation of challenges, potential dangers and alternatives; linking the imaginative and prescient to actuality on the bottom, and creating tangible options.       

Business Development    

• UNDP Representation. Ability to symbolize UNDP and productively share UNDP data and actions; advocate for UNDP, its values, mission and work with numerous constituencies.