Access to Justice Officer

Contract

This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 22 years old. Applicants must be nationals of or legal residents in the country of assignment.

Description of task

The key objective of the assignment is to provide technical assistance and specialist services on Women and Girls Access Justice through Effective, Accountable and Gender-Responsive Institutions program.

Under overall guidance of the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Specialist, the UNV will perform the following tasks and deliverables:

Provide technical support to the implementation of the Women and Girls Access Justice through Effective, Accountable and Gender-Responsive Institutions program.

Support monitoring and measurement of project progress (programme activity, results, and indicators) and tracking the delivery of funds and prepare project reports as required.

Review and coordinate the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports.

Monitor the implementation of proposals by responsible partners.

Provide inputs to quarterly reports, donor reports and other reports on outputs, results outputs, and outcomes.

Provide technical assistance and capacity development support to project partners.

Provide technical support to the implementation of programme activities with partners.

Identify opportunities for capacity building of partners and coordinate technical/ programming support and trainings to partners as indicated in the project document.

Contribute to organizing quarterly programme review meetings with all EVAWG partners.

Development of ToR for consultancies to be undertaken during the project lifespan

Support UN Women to strengthen strategic partnerships with stakeholders, actors, and development partners.

Support UN Women to build and maintain close liaison with relevant development partners, donors and other actors supporting efforts towards gender justice including the private sector.

Support UN Women to maintain alliances and strategic partnerships for the advancement of gender justice.

Provide inputs to relevant documentation such as project summaries, conference papers, briefing notes, speeches, and donor profiles.

Contribute to development of EVAW knowledge products.

Provide inputs to the development of knowledge management products on ending Violence Against Women and Girls.

Provide technical inputs to background documents, briefs and presentations related to ending Violence Against Women and Girls through enhancing their access to justice.

Support in analysis of trends, documentation and synthesis of lessons learned and best practices for dissemination.

Participate in EVAW/G community of practice with a focus on access to justice for women and girls.

Organize, compile and process information related to donors, partners, programme team as inputs to various data bases and documents.

Provide administrative support to the EVAW portfolio

Undertake all logistical, administrative, and financial arrangements for organization for meetings, workshops, events, and missions.

Make travel arrangements for the Programme Team, including travel requisitions and claims.

Draft minutes in meetings, as delegated.

Support the systematic collection and update information and related on-going or planned bilateral, multilateral, and non-governmental programs.

Ensure up-to-date programme files for audit of programmes/ projects and tracking of programme delivery.

Organize and coordinate filing of documents; maintain mailing lists.

Qualifications/Requirements

Required degree level:

Master degree or equivalent

Education - Additional Comments:

Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women studies, international development, or a related field is required.

A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Required experience:

36 Months

Experience remark:

Relevant work experience in development programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building.

Experience in the programming on EVAWG with a focus on gender justice is an asset.

Experience of working with the Justice, Law and Order Sector.

Experience coordinating and liaising with government agencies and/or donors is an asset.

Experience in communication and advocacy on gender and women’s rights.

Language skills:

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise:

Rule of law, judicial and national legal system reform, Other rule of law or governance related experience, Human rights

Area of expertise details:

Human rights. justice, Law and Order Sector.

Driving license:

No

Competencies values:

Planning and Organizing, Respect for Diversity, Working in Teams

Application procedure:

* Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

Please first register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup. Important: After creating your account, complete all sections

of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink.

Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply.

* Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

Please first update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile. Then go to ‘My Page’ at

https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to

apply.

Application deadline: 09 June 2021