UNDP Jobs - 88064- Gender and Social Inclusion Officer, SB4/Peg 2 (Op

Gender and Social Inclusion Officer, SB4/Peg 2 (Open to Nepalese National Only)

Location :

Kathmandu, NEPAL

Type of Contract :

Other

Starting Date :

15-Dec-2019

Application Deadline :

27-Oct-19 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

Other

Duration of Initial Contract :

One Year

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

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

The ‘Enhancing Access to Justice through Institutional Reform Project (the Project) builds on the achievements of the Strengthening the Rule of Law and Human Rights protection system in Nepal Programme and continues to focus on the reform of the legal aid system, supporting national efforts of reform and coordination in the justice sector, implementation of constitutional provisions on fundamental rights through legislative reform, implementation of the newly adopted criminal and civil legislations, and in particular on enhancing the access to justice at the local level.

To enable women and vulnerable groups to access justice, the Project will support the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs to lead reforms in the legal aid system in Nepal towards the implementation of the Integrated Legal Aid System which aims to coordinate and regulate accessible socio-legal aid service provision throughout Nepal. By further enabling women and vulnerable groups to enjoy their right to legal aid services, the Project will empower them to exercise their rights to poverty-reducing services such as inheritance, pensions, education allowances, health and legal services, thereby addressing systemic inequality/discriminations which is one of the barriers towards their overall well-being.

The Project will work to strengthen Judicial Committees established as an effective mechanism of justice delivery at the community level, with the aim to promote the access to justice of women, poor and vulnerable and to facilitate easier access to justice and approach to legal remedies for vulnerable people.

The Project will continue to be engaged in the reform of the criminal and civil justice system by providing necessary support for the execution of the Costed Action Plan for the implementation of the newly adopted codes. Developing guidelines on implementation of codes and providing specialized trainings to judges, prosecutors, police officers, lawyers and other justice sector officials will be a focus of the Project.

The project will focus its activities for enhancing access to justice for poor, vulnerable and socially excluded people though legal awareness and capacity enhancement. There are numbers of outputs directly dedicated in promoting gender empowerment and social inclusion. The continue oversight and mainstreaming gender as well as social inclusion is very important. In this regard, the project has provisioned to hire a person. And the incumbent will critically monitor, document and demonstrate the results on GESI.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the National Project Manager (NPM) and in close coordination with the Project Implementation unit, the Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Officer will:

Identify critical project areas for gender and social inclusion based interventions;
Contribute in planning, monitoring and reporting of the project and integrate GESI into these all the process;
Explore the baseline data on the gender dynamics and the status of women and poor/marginalized communities in the context of the project and relating to access to justice, which will constitute the project’s base for a monitoring and evaluation plan for gender and social integration;
Identify a list of key gender/social inclusion-related indicators to be included in the project M&E plan, which include sex/caste/ethnicity/income status, disaggregated data wherever possible;
Assess and recommend to the project that can be incorporated into planning and implementation of the project activities to ensure improvement of women and poor/marginalized communities’ conditions in general and more specifically as it relates to access to justice;
Support implementation of the strategy for mainstreaming gender and social inclusion and a human rights approach in programme activities and develop action-plan for implementing the strategy;
Provide necessary orientation and advise to all the implementing partners and agencies on gender and social inclusion issues and policies;
Contribute to produce resource materials addressing the issues of gender and social inclusion;
Facilitate policy dialogue on gender and social inclusion, sexual and gender based violence, gender sensitive transitional justice with government and other relevant stakeholders;
Ensure gender-sensitive provisions for Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) survivors to enhance access to legal assistance;
Provide technical assistance to each project to ensure that gender and social inclusion is influencing their planning and activities and budgets;
Engage with the partners in reviewing and providing necessary inputs on drafting necessary regulations;
Review necessary procedures, policies related to the Judicial Committee from GESI perspective;
Build capacity of CSOs and government partners to plan and implement project activities on gender and social inclusion;
Conduct desk review of existing policy documents and legal frameworks (legislations) to identify areas for improvement on gender and social inclusion issues in collaboration with Government counterparts;
Collaborate with Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to make sure that the impact measurements focus on women and other vulnerable groups;
Assist implementing partners to develop gender sensitive and gender responsive monitoring mechanism;
Maintain awareness of and relationships with civil society organizations and development partners also working in areas of social inclusion and women rights;
Document lessons learned and best practices and communicate these with UNDP headquarters (both national and international) to contribute to global knowledge on gender and social inclusion in relation to rule of law and access to justice programme; and
Implement project activities as directed by NPM and perform other works necessary for the successful implementation of Project activities.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Excellent communication and advocacy skills;
Proven ability to conceptualize, develop, plan and manage human rights interventions as well as transfer knowledge and skills;
Good interpersonal skills with experience of networking with partners at all level and knowledge of technology and use of computer applications;
Good understanding of national and international human rights mechanisms, and excellent inter-personal skills;
Ability to establish priorities and to plan, coordinate and monitor work of others, ability to make timely decisions;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, and age sensitivity and adaptability and capacity to work effectively in a multicultural environment;
Ability to coach, mentor, motivate and develop staff and encourage good performance.

Core Competencies:

Professionalism:

Comprehensive knowledge of project management, planning and monitoring, and exposure to a wide range of human rights and humanitarian issues; conceptual and strategic analytical capacity,
Ability to analyse and articulate the human rights and humanitarian dimension of complex issues;
Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to use sound judgment in applying technical expertise to resolve a wide range of complex issues/problems;
Ability to work under extreme pressure; very good knowledge of institutional mandates, policies and guidelines pertaining to human rights and humanitarian affairs;
Must have knowledge about gender marker.

Commitment to Continuous Learning:

Willingness to keep abreast of new developments in the field.

Communications:

Excellent communication (spoken and written) skills, including the ability to convey the message to counterpart at all level.

Planning & Organizing:

Ability to plan the work, meet tight deadlines and handle multiple concurrent projects/activities.

Technology Awareness:

Fully proficient in the use of computer and relevant software applications such as MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Vision, Email and Internet, etc.

Teamwork:

Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a large organization comprised of multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Completation of Master's degree in gender studies, sociology, human rights, law or relevant fields.
Additional training and certification in gender and social inclusion would be an advantage.

Experience:

At least five years of progressive relevant experience working in international development, the promotion of gender and social inclusion policies, human rights along with handing programme implementation independently;
Proven experience in developing strategies for gender and social inclusion mainstreaming in programme design and implementation;
Familiarity with the justice sector actors and issues of access to justice from gender and social insulation perspective;
Experience with UN agencies will be an asset;
Strong management skills including ability to provide strategic guidance, technical oversight; mentor staff; develop work plans and manage budgets and project expenditure;
Demonstrated ability in monitoring and evaluation and reporting experience.

Computer skill:

Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel etc);
Knowledge of handling web-based management systems.

Language:

Fluency in oral and written in English and Nepali is essential.