UN WOMEN Jobs - 14997- Consultant: Gender Advisor on Security Forces and

Consultant: Gender Advisor on Security Forces and VAW

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UN WOMEN

Lieu :

Jerusalem, TERRITOIRES PALESTINIENS

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

Date limite de candidature :

02-Mar-10 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

International Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

one month

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

Le PNUD s’engage à recruter un personnel divers en termes de genre, de nationalité et de culture. Nous encourageons de même les personnes issues des minorités ethniques, des communautés autochtones ou handicapées à postuler. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées dans la plus stricte confidentialité. Le PNUD ne tolère pas l’exploitation et / ou les atteintes sexuelles, ni aucune forme de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel, et / ou toutes formes de discrimination. Tous/tes les candidats/tes selectectionnes /ées devront ainsi se soumettre à de rigoureuses vérifications relatives aux références fournies ainsi qu’à leurs antécédents.

Historique

UNIFEM promotes and implements in the oPt, in partnership with the Palestinian Authority, civil society organizations and other UN agencies, a spectrum of programmes and initiatives aimed to combat violence against women, while promoting gender equality and women's empowerment.

Within this framework UNIFEM strongly engages with its partners in the development of human rights-based and gender-sensitive protection standards within national policies and specialized services addressing women victims and survivors of violence, as well as aiming to stop impunity for perpetrators of violence.

Devoirs et responsabilités

The Gender Advisor on Security Forces dealing with cases of VAW will carry out her/his tasks and duties under the overall supervision of UNIFEM Head of Office and the direct supervision of UNIFEM Women's Human Rights Unit project manager and in close coordination with the assigned Unit staff.

All contacts with UNIFEM partners will be arranged through UNIFEM. Within the above-defined framework, the short-term consultant will be responsible for the following main duties and responsibilities:

1. Draft specific human-rights based and gender sensitive guidelines and procedures for Security Forces to investigate and respond to cases of violence against women, with particular regard to family violence. The corpus of guidelines and procedures addressing violence against women shall tackle, without being limited to, the following essential topics:

First approach to the victim who decided to report;
Duties of first officer receiving the report;
Recording incidents of violence against women / family violence;
How Security Forces investigate violence against women / family violence;
Duties of investigating officer;
How Security Forces deal with the people involved in family violence (the victim(s), children, the offender(s), other family members, community members, police employees who are victims or offenders);
Medical/psychological examination;
The victim's statement;
Victims' referral (the role of referral in breaking the cycle of violence; formal and informal referral, referral of children);
Assistance to victims during court proceedings;
Preventive measures to and prosecution of perpetrators (criminal options, civil options);
Monitoring Security Forces response and investigation in cases of violence against women / family violence.

2. Submit and present to UNIFEM the draft of the specific guidelines and incorporate final comments, if any, as agreed.

Advise UNIFEM on any other specific issue to be taken into consideration while drafting the corpus of guidelines;
Provide recommendations on how to integrate the specific guidelines and procedures addressing violence against women in the corpus of investigation procedures already existing and/or in the process of being endorsed;
Develop pilot mechanism to monitor and evaluate application of the developed human-rights based and gender-sensitive guidelines of the corpus of specific guidelines/code of practice and procedures;
Draft and submit to UNIFEM follow up recommendations;
Draft and submit to UNIFEM end-of-mission report.

Deliverables:

1. Specific guidelines/code of practice and procedures for Security Forces to investigate and respond to cases of violence against women, with particular regard to family violence.

2. Pilot monitoring and evaluation system of the corpus of specific guidelines / code of practice and procedures, to ensure adherence to human rights standards and implementation of a gender-sensitive approach.

Compétences

Senior experience as gender / gender-based violence advisor, trainer of trainers;
Excellent knowledge of Justice and Security systems; knowledge and experience of non-western / middle-eastern Justice and Security systems, especially in relation to violence against women, is an asset;
Excellent intercultural communication and diplomatic skills;
Flexibility, ability to work efficiently under pressure and within tight time-frames;
Excellent writing skills.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

Academic background in fields related to the assignment (psychology, criminology, gender, etc);

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of international advisory work in the fields of gender mainstreaming related to Justice and Security systems, capacity building of Security Forces in response to violence against women;

Language requirements:

Fluency in written and spoken English.

Applications should be submitted on line and must include the UNIFEM Personal History Form (P11) posted at http://www.unifem.org/attachments/about/employment/UNIFEM_personal_history_form_P11.doc