Background
If you are already a member of ExpRes, you do not need to apply:
Duties and Responsibilities
Security Sector Development
Including supporting - national security consultations & security perception surveys; constitutional and legal frameworks, including national security policies and strategies; the role and capacity of security sector actors; the role and capacity of civil society; oversight institutions and mechanisms; the institutional system of governance; the system of management; gender responsive security sector reform.
Policing
Including supporting - community policing; forensics; criminal investigations; professional and managerial capacity development; due diligence policy; internal audit and policy development; budget and finance management; logistics (including fleet and facility management); human resources management; communications & IT; public information management; external oversight mechanisms; gender responsive policing.
Armed Violence Reduction/Citizen Security
Includingsupporting - development and implementation of policies and strategies on citizen security and armed violence reduction at national and local levels; crime statistics.
Small Arms and Light Weapons
Including supporting - provision of technical support to SALW legislation; stockpile and storage management; marking, tracing and registration of SALW; development of National SALW control plans.
Transitional Justice/Human Rights
Including supporting - transitional justice mechanisms; complementarity and domestic prosecutions of serious crimes national strategies and policies; TRCs and other truth-telling processes; victim support; reconciliation and reintegration; reparations programmes; support for national human rights institutions.
Development of Institutions in the Justice Sector and sector-wide approaches (SWAPs)
Including supporting - strategic planning, sector-wide policy development and coordination; development of justice institutions at national and local level, including court administration, court client policies, services and outreach, monitoring and evaluation, gender responsive justice sector development; oversight mechanisms; legal aid multi-trust funds etc..
Access to Justice
Including supporting –access to legal representation; legal awareness and public outreach; paralegal services; support for participatory justice-related processes; alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and court-ordered mediation services; linking between formal institutions and informal justice mechanisms; women’s access to justice.
Legislative drafting
Including supporting – developing the capacity of the legislative drafting departments; translation; law development in societies with legal pluralism.
Sexual and Gender based Violence (UN Team of Experts on Sexual Violence in Conflict)
Including supporting - criminal investigations and prosecutions; collection, analysis and use of forensic evidence (and their storage and protection); military justice; criminal law reform and procedural law reform; witness, victim and justice official protection; and justice and security sector oversight systems / bodies.
Women’s Access to Justice and Security
Including supporting - assessing, developing, programmes to support women on family law, specific reparations claims, citizen and inheritance rights, legal empowerment; promotion of women’s participation in police force and legal professions.
Competencies
- Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity;
- Demonstrates and promotes the highest standard of integrity, impartiality, fairness and incorruptibility in all matters affecting his/her work and status.
Organizational Awareness:
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment understands the structure and hierarchy of UN/UNDP, process flows throughout the organization, products and services, their measures of effectiveness, and perceptions of clients;
- Excellent knowledge of development issues and internationally-agreed development goals;
- Excellent knowledge of gender responsive rule of law programming.
- Self-development, initiative-taking;
- Takes appropriate risk in developing new or adapting existing methods and approaches to more effectively perform tasks or to solve problems in new and unique ways.
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
- Works collaboratively with colleagues inside UN/UNDP as well as its partners and other stakeholders to pursue common goals;
- Knowledge of social networks and mobile technologies and UNDP's approach to ICT for Development and e-governance;
- Good knowledge of the socio-economic and political situation of the countries in specific regions.
- Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
- Delivers verbal/written information in a timely, clear, organized and easily understood manner;
- Excellent oral and written skills to develop knowledge products in these areas.
- Creating synergies through self-control tolerates conditions of stress, uncertainty or ambiguity and continues to maintain a positive outlook and to work productively.
- Managing conflict;
- Remains calm, composed and patient, regardless of his/her own state of mind in the face of conflict.
- Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others;
- Demonstrates commitment to ongoing professional development and keeps abreast of new developments in his/her professional field.
- Informed and transparent decision making;
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for the quality of the outcome of his/her decisions.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:- Advanced university degree (Master, PhD) relevant to the selected thematic area.
- At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in Rule of Law, including relevant field experience, especially in crisis-affected, post-crisis and/or fragile settings;
- Extensive technical knowledge relevant to the selected thematic area;
- Proven intellectual and practical capacity to understand and link the selected thematic areas to broader Rule of Law and national development issues, particularly in crisis-affected, post-crisis and/or fragile settings;
- Proven and recent experience with technical assistance for Rule of Law project/programme development, implementation, management, monitoring and/or evaluation;
- Theoretical and practical experience in drafting, implementing, monitoring and evaluating public policies, strategies or concepts relevant to the selected thematic area;
- Excellent negotiation and advocacy skills;
- Excellent drafting and formulation skills; proven record of drafting official reports or papers/studies in the selected area;
- Experience working as a public official in the selected area or working/collaborating with the government is a plus;
- UN experience and experience in United Nations inter-agency work is an asset.
- Fluency in spoken and written English is a must, knowledge of another UN Language a plus;
- We are specifically looking for candidates with excellent French and Arabic language skills (fluent written and spoken).
- A current completed P11 form in English - a blank form can be downloaded from http://europeandcis.undp.org/files/hrforms/P11_modified_for_SCs_and_ICs.doc
- P11 form should, among other things, include names and contacts of at least three references and clearly indicate names of former and current supervisors (if applicable); in case of freelance consultants – list of partner institutions and contact details of projects supervisors. A file in .doc, .docx or .pdf format, containing the P11 form should be signed, scanned and uploaded into the system upon completion of the online application;
- Links to/examples of work, analytical reports, publications, online presence (e.g. blogs) in the subject matter that resulted from the consultant’s work should be included in the P11.
- Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please make sure you have provided all requested material.