Antecedentes

WRACATI project builds on UNDP’s mandate and strategic vision that  aim to promote the advancement of women through legal empowerment. It corresponds to the commitment of the UNDP Kuwait CO to address the empowerment of women as stated in its Country Programme Action Plan 2009-2013 and its Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan. Building on the experience and insights gained during the implementation of the WRACTI initiative (Women’s and Children’s Rights through Access to Information), the project aims to facilitate and provide access to relevant laws and regulations for women and to raise awareness of women’s legal rights among women and key partners as well as the general public.
The project aims to review laws and practices that affect women's rights and hinder their full participation in the public life in Kuwait. A right-based approach will be utilized to collect and analyse the relevant laws and case law and to audit the judicial practices with the view of introducing the required legal reform to ensure adequate protection for women.
The project objective is to facilitate the access of information and services for needy women and for the public in large. To this end, the project activities include the development of relevant legal information in digital format and its dissemination through CDs, website, social media video and audio radio messages, booklets and telephone hotlines as well as through other means.
 Similarly, the project aims to strengthen women’s support mechanisms and to build capacities of women's rights groups, law enforcement personnel and other stakeholders.  The expected outcome that their capacities will be enhanced  to better access legal information through ICT and to use this information effectively in directing and counselling women and to advocate for women’s friendly justice system in the state of Kuwait.

Objectives:
Project assistant will be required to assist the project manager and the working team on the delivery of the project results in a professional and timely manner. She/he is required to handle executive secretary tasks as well as programming assistance responsibilities.

Deberes y responsabilidades

Under the direct supervision of the project Manager, the project assistant will perform the following: 

• Assist the project manager in the day to day project tasks and implementation of the action plan.
• Create a filing system for the project documents and ensure up to date files
• Prepare the project meetings and circulate minutes
• Communications with different stakeholders and project team
• Assist in preparations of workshops, conferences, forums and support the work of the technical committee.
• Assist in drafting  different reports and documents
• Document different activities and events in hard and soft copies formats.
• Media monitoring
• Posting and updating materials on the project website
• Handling any other tasks as required by the project manager.
  

Competencias

• 1-3  years of  work experience
• Fluency in Arabic and English 
• Experience  in gender –sensitive programmes  or  projects is preferable
• She/he must have contextual knowledge of Kuwait
• She/he must be committed to the empowerment of women and gender equality in general.
• She/he must have good personal and professional communication skills.
• Energetic, well organized and self-starter, to ensure the timely delivery of the required tasks and responsibilities with minimum supervision.
• Strong IT skills
  

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas