Project Specialist RoLSHR – Office-Based

Office/Unit/Project Description 

UNDP is the data frontier group for sustainable growth within the UN Development System and serves because the integrator for motion to appreciate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s coverage work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office ranges, kinds a contiguous spectrum of deep native data to slicing-edge international views and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests within the Global Policy Network (GPN), a community of discipline-based mostly and international technical experience throughout a variety of data domains and in help of the signature options and organizational capabilities envisioned within the Strategic Plan. Within the GPN, the Crisis Bureau guides UNDP’s company disaster-associated methods and imaginative and prescient for disaster prevention, response and restoration and different thematic which it anchors for the entire of UNDP (e.g. Human rights).

Within the Crisis Bureau, the Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights Team (RoLSHR) crew is accountable for apply/coverage growth within the areas of rule of legislation, safety, and human rights as they relate to disaster prevention and restoration in battle and catastrophe settings in addition to the implementation of the Global Programme on Strengthening the Rule of Law and Human Rights for Sustaining Peace and Fostering Development. The Global Programme is the primary operational and monetary instrument for UNDP globally to interact in justice, safety and human rights in disaster-affected contexts and particular growth conditions. It attracts on a few of UNDP’s most revolutionary rule of legislation programmes in these contexts, to help UNDP Country Offices in growing multi-12 months, complete rule of legislation programmes that reply quickly and successfully to the wants on the bottom. The Global Programme helps rule of legislation programmes in roughly 40 disaster-affected conditions, with a complete programming worth of over USD 220 million. The RoLSHR crew additionally leads UNDP’s engagement on the rule of legislation with the UN system by the Global Focal Point for Rule of Law, which was established in 2012 and has been more and more operational in recent times.

The Justice Action Coalition (JAC) with a Secretariat co-hosted by UNDP and Pathfinders for Peace and Justice, is a multi-stakeholder, excessive-ambition coalition of nations and organizations championing equal entry to justice for all. The guiding ambition of the Justice Action Coalition is to shut the worldwide justice hole and the objective is to attain measurable progress in justice outcomes for folks and communities. The coalition requires daring motion to remodel justice programs. It urges international locations to pivot to folks-centred justice. As a co-host of the JAC Secretariat, UNDP is implementing a workstream specializing in supporting strategic and revolutionary folks centred justice initiatives at nation degree. UNDP is anchoring this workstream based mostly on its comparative benefit and area of interest of in-nation presence and powerful rule of legislation and entry to justice programmes in several growth settings. This workstream focuses on the administration of Catalytic Funds to ship high quality nation degree programming which is co-designed and carried out with nationwide stakeholders. UNDP supplies technical experience at each coverage and programming ranges to help high quality programming. The Catalytic Fund is being carried out with an preliminary inception interval of two years aimed toward demonstrating outcomes and classes on centered interventions on folks centred justice.

Scope of Work 

The Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights Team () Project Specialist will probably be accountable for the general venture administration of the Catalytic Fund folks centered justice initiatives at nation degree and provision to skilled technical help and recommendation on folks centered justice. The venture Specialist will probably be directing key actions which embody help in the direction of nation choices for Catalytic Fund investments, coordination with key stakeholders, and significantly JAC companions, facilitate steady studying processes all through implementation of nation initiatives together with setting up a sturdy monitoring studying and analysis instruments, supporting conducting analysis and evaluation to help of the crew’s efforts to supply coverage and programme advisory, advocacy, relationship constructing, and data to the thematic space of Rule of Law, Justice and Security inside the Crisis Bureau and UNDP as a complete throughout a variety of growth settings, significantly in battle, disaster and fragile settings. 

Working underneath the course and help of the Senior Advisor, Justice & Security and with matrix reporting to Programme Manager -Global Programme for Rule of legislation Security and Human Rights, the Project Specialist collaborates with groups throughout UNDP’s Regional Hubs, Country Offices and Global Policy Centers, to supply high quality venture and coverage providers and ship technical recommendation which advances UNDP’s credibility and coherence within the space of individuals centered justice, human rights and gender justice. S/he collaborates with the UN system and different JAC members to make sure the execution of high quality and coherent coverage and programme advisory providers on the nation degree, in addition to to make sure alignment with the UNDP Strategic Plan.

More particularly, the ROLSHR Project Specialist will undertake the next duties:

1.            Lead Project Management and Coordination

1. Facilitates the event and implementation of Country choice course of for the Catalytic Fund on folks centered justice.
2. Leads Catalytic Fund venture administration work together with actions associated to work planning, implementation and reporting.
3. Leads monitoring and reporting of total implementation based mostly on programmatic indicators, in addition to company reporting and analysis/classes learnt necessities.
4. Ensures coordination and coherence with the opposite JAC workstreams on Data & Evidence’, Communication, Narrative and Connection to the SDGs and Financing
5. Contribute to the event of coherence within the implementation of steerage on folks centered justice associated instruments for the implementation of worldwide coverage requirements, together with testing and rolling out of instruments and methodologies. 
6. Provide inputs to help the standard assurance of coverage providers and foster coverage innovation to advertise partnerships for folks centered safety by reviewing classes discovered and evaluations to reinforce programme supply.
7. Lead within the technique of drafting reviews together with evaluation of points and tendencies
8. Lead within the coordination and conducting of study of information, case proof and analysis findings on folks centered justice to distill related classes from initiatives and programmes to tell coverage formulation and steerage; 
9. Lead within the technique of drafting reviews together with evaluation of points and tendencies

2.           Build Strategic Partnerships and Resource mobilization.

1. In synchronization with the Global Programme Manager and Senior Advisor on Justice and Security, will coordinate engagement with present and potential companions, together with Member States, Private Sector organizations, CSOs/NGOs and others to make accessible capacities for supporting Catalytic Fund programmatic efforts within the discipline and at HQ; 
2. Implement partnership constructing and useful resource mobilization methods, in keeping with Crisis Bureau’s and ROLSHR useful resource mobilization technique in coordination with the ROLSHR Team Leader and Global Programme Manager.
3. Guide and help crew-large efforts in strengthening strategic partnerships with JAC members, UN entities and different related our bodies and supply inputs to these partnerships in help of UNDP initiatives:
4. Support partnerships at discipline degree for the implementation of JAC catalytic initiatives and supply recommendation and steerage to Country Offices on partnership strengthening.

3.           Lead Policy Research and Development: 

1. Contribute to the event/implementation of steerage on folks centered justice and associated instruments for the implementation of worldwide coverage requirements, together with testing and roll out of instruments and methodologies. 
2. Support the event of multi-stakeholder coverage and programme initiatives for various contexts on key rising coverage points on folks centered justice, in collaboration with coverage groups within the Regional Hubs, and bringing in views and data from Country Offices and the areas. 
3. Contribute in the direction of coordination and conducting of study of information, case proof and analysis findings to distill related classes from initiatives and programmes to tell coverage formulation and steerage. 
4. Contribute to the event of related evaluation and steerage, in shut collaboration throughout the GPN, on rising tendencies, evaluation and partnership points of worldwide significance, in addition to contribute to new analysis, together with by working with the Global Policy Centers. 
5. Support crew’s engagement in UN interagency and different coordination in related coverage areas by offering analysis perception in particular thematic space.

4.           Facilitate Knowledge Management 

1. Keep an up-to-date library of data associated to the thematic space, whether or not on the international, cross-regional or area-particular degree to and proactively share paperwork with crew members and reply to their particular requests for info and studying.
2. Participate in data sharing processes and occasions inside UNDP and with exterior companions and particularly JAC members and nationwide counterparts at discipline degree.
3. Contribute to the event and evaluation of data merchandise in shut coordination with HQ, Regional Hub and nation groups by analyzing and sharing classes learnt and programme analysis outcomes. 
4. Support to communication merchandise comparable to blogs, tales, reviews, social media in shut coordination with the MEL and Innovation Team, the Programme Manager and the Senior Advisor on Justice and Security.

The incumbent performs different duties inside their useful profile as deemed mandatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization

Institutional Arrangement

• The ROLSHR relies within the Crisis Bureau and reviews to the Senior Advisor-Justice and Security and works intently with the Rule of legislation, Security and Human Rights Team and the GPN.

Competencies

Core

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies 

Minimum Qualifications of the Successful IPSA

Min. Academic Education           

• Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Development eEconomics, Law, Governance, Human Rights, Development Studies, Political Science, Business Administration, Social Sciences or associated disciplines is required. OR
• A primary-degree college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) within the areas said above, together with an extra two years of qualifying expertise will probably be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Min. years of related Work expertise              

• A minimal of seven years (with grasp’s diploma) or 9 years (with bachelor’s diploma) {of professional} work expertise in offering coverage recommendation and programme help within the space of justice, human rights, rule of legislation in growth and/or disaster contexts is required.

Required and Desired further expertise and competencies           

• At least 5 years of expertise working in growing nation settings is required.
• Experience in working with a variety of companions on justice, human rights and rule of legislation (public, non-public, educational, civil society, enterprise neighborhood leaders) is required.
• Proven monitor report and expertise within the UN System associated to engaged on justice, rule of legislation and human rights in disaster and/or developments contexts is fascinating. 
• Proven monitor report of venture administration or venture coordination is an asset.
• Experience in disaster contexts is an asset.

Required Language(s) (at working degree)              

• Fluency in English, each written and oral, is required.
• Fluency in one other UN language is an asset.