UNDP Jobs - 65874- Internship- Women's Access to Justice- IP project

Internship- Women's Access to Justice- IP project ( only Bangladeshi nationals are eligible to apply)

Location :

Dhaka, BANGLADESH

Type of Contract :

Internship

Starting Date :

08-May-2016

Application Deadline :

30-Apr-16 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

Intern

Duration of Initial Contract :

Three months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

Three months

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

Despite the justice reforms that have been achieved in Bangladesh, a myriad of factors still hinders poor women for seeking and obtaining justice when they are subject to crime, abuses or violent of their legal rights. By facilitating context-specific innovations and solutions, this initiation plan will engage with women living in poverty on the issues that matter most to them, so they know their legal rights and have access to effective legal aids and alternative dispute resolution service in order to claim them. It will support the government to put into place legislation, policies and plans that guarantee poor women access to justice. It will advise the judiciary, persecution, lawyers and paralegals on providing quality, gender-sensitive justice services. It will work with universities to create a pool of young promising lawyers sensitive to legal aid, pro-bono service and alternative dispute resolution mechanism. It will hold a series of workshops engaging actors from the justice sector to establish a platform for solid and continuous analysis of important thematic issues.

UNDP has been supporting different justice sector institutions in Bangladesh through different projects namely A2J, JUST, JSF and PRP. In April 2015 A2J and in June 2015 JUST came to an end. PRP also came to an end in December 2015. The justice IP was designed to bridge the gap between closing projects and a new programme that is currently being designed.

Youth Empowerment for Development
Young people are key governance challenge in Bangladesh and inclusion of their views and opinions in public policy debate in crucial to ensure decision-making is inclusive. The initiation plan is designed to provide the preparatory steps to launch a comprehensive youth programme dealing with voice and accountability and unemployment issues. It establishes youth network, identifiers and test tool or the generation of evidence based strategic research as well as communications products hat highlight the interests of youths and actions that work towards building social capital. It will also produce a needs assessment of future labour gaps and provide a project document outlining a comprehensive youth programme on completion with resource mobilized.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Key Functions:

Under the overall guidance of the Programme Analyst, Governance Cluster, the key functions of the incumbent are:

Support the governance cluster with the new Human Rights Programme and maintain liaison with the Human Rights Commission on various project related issues.
Support the governance cluster with the Youth Project and assist in the planning phase of the project activity.
Research, collect, analyze and edit documents related to Youth Project.
Attend various meetings under governance cluster and take notes and prepare comprehensive meeting minutes.
Coordination among different stakeholders including development partners.
Assist in managing social media and other formal/informal engagement activities on cluster projects.
Assist in the organizing conferences/events/workshops under governance cluster.
Coordination of mission from Afghanistan.
Logistics and coordination support relating to Governance projects.
Participate in other tasks as required by the cluster.

Key Deliverables:

Mainstream the Youth Project into the NUPPR & Human Rights Programme and prepare a work plan for the same.
Arrange an inception plan workshop for the Human Rights Programme.
Proof reading and finalize the BNHRC-CDP & SEMB projects closure reports.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards (human rights, peace, understanding between peoples and nations, tolerance, integrity, respect, results orientation (UNDP core ethics) impartiality.
Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP.
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Functional Competencies:

Development and Operational Effectiveness

Proven ability to write very high quality reports and documentation that meet corporate standards and CO priorities.
Solid research capacity across range of research mediums, and proven ability to very effectively coordinate and manage research, writing and editing tasks with number of stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
Ability to ensure timely delivery of tasks, and flexibility of approach to such tasks.
Good planning skills demonstrated through good time management, capacity to plan, and deliver tasks on time.
Very high level of flexibility and adaptability.

Knowledge Management and Learning

Promotes knowledge management and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example.
Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.
Sensitivity to and responsiveness to all partners;
Respectful and helpful relations with all UN/UNV/UNDP staff.

Required Skills and Experience

Qualification Requirements:

Enrolment in Master degree programme in Economics, Development Studies, communications, Public Policy, Public Administration or a related field. Only those students who will return to their studies upon completion of their internship assignments are eligible. (Letter of enrolment from school will be requested from the selected applicants).
Eagerness to learn about UNDP practice areas and their application on national, regional and international level.
Excellent level of English language skill in writing, editing, reading and speaking.
Good planning skills demonstrated through good time management, capacity to plan, and deliver tasks on time.
Willingness to participate in all aspects of UNDP programme activities.
Strong computer skills, particularly of MS Word, and e-mail applications.

Language requirements:

Fluency of English and Bangla language is required.

Terms and conditions:
UNDP Internships are NON-PAID and a minimum of 6 weeks of commitment on behalf of the applicants is required, with longer commitment considered desirable. In return, UNDP commits to assign at least 1 staff member to act as a mentor to the intern and to ensure that interns are exposed to meaningful and adequately challenging professional tasks