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JOB SUMMARY
Background
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Strengthening access to justice, the rule of law, and promoting human rights are cornerstones of UNDP’s mandate to achieve sustainable human development and eradicate extreme poverty.
Through its work in these areas, UNDP contributes to building peace and democratic governance across various development contexts.
The UNDP Country Office in the Kyrgyz Republic, under the “Accountable Institutions, Justice and Peace” portfolio, is currently implementing several strategic initiatives.
These initiatives aim to strengthen accountable and responsive justice institutions, build trust in state-society relations, and ensure inclusive processes that promote legal empowerment and access to justice for vulnerable populations, particularly women, youth, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Additionally, these initiatives focus on strengthening civil society, promoting and protecting human rights in business, and advancing environmental justice.
The UNDP project “Strengthening Human Rights and Equal Access to Justice in the Kyrgyz Republic” (3rd phase) is designed to support the current legal aid and justice reform agenda of the Kyrgyz Republic.
This project aims to foster a more strategic, coordinated, responsive, gender-sensitive, and sustainable implementation in line with the adopted national legal aid framework.
It also ensures compliance with human rights and international standards related to the administration of justice, including fair trials, due process of law, and equal access to justice for persons with disabilities, women, and rural communities.
Under the supervision of the Senior Advisor on Strengthening Democracy and Rule of Law, and the overall guidance of the Team Leader of the UNDP Social Cohesion and Governance Cluster, the incumbent will provide technical support to manage and implement UNDP’s free legal aid interventions.
Duties and Responsibilities
Technical Support and Capacity Building:
- Assist in the day to day management and implementation of UNDP’s free legal aid interventions.
- Provide technical expertise to UNDP and national stakeholders to ensure legal aid services are responsive, gender-sensitive, and aligned with international standards.
- Support the development and dissemination of legal aid tools, guidelines, and training materials.
- Organize and conduct training sessions for legal aid providers, government officials, and community leaders on topics related to access to justice, human rights, and legal empowerment.
- Support capacity-building initiatives to enhance the skills and knowledge of stakeholders involved in the legal aid system.
Coordination and Partnerships:
- Collaborate with national and local stakeholders, including government institutions, civil society organizations, and international partners, to strengthen the legal aid system in the country.
- Facilitate coordination meetings and maintain regular communication with partners to ensure the effective implementation of legal aid activities.
Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Develop and implement monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess the impact of legal and interventions.
Collect and analyze data to measure progress and identify areas for improvement.
- Prepare regular reports on project achievements, challenges, and recommendations for future actions.
- Design and implement comprehensive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks that track the performance and impact of legal aid interventions.
- Ensure that M&E processes are robust and provide actionable insights.
- Gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data to measure the effectiveness and reach of legal aid services.
- Use data to identify trends, successes, and areas needing improvement.
Advocacy and Knowledge Management:
- Promote awareness of legal aid services and the importance of access to justice through advocacy campaigns and public outreach activities.
- Document best practices and lessons learned from legal aid interventions and share knowledge with relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute to the development of policy recommendations to improve the legal aid framework in the Kyrgyz Republic.
- Share knowledge and findings with stakeholders through reports, presentations, and workshops to inform policy and practice
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional Arrangement
Under the overall guidance Team Leader of the UNDP Social Cohesion and Governance Cluster and direct supervision of Senior Advisor on Strengthening Democracy and Rule of Law, the Project Analyst (Free legal aid) cooperates with UNDP staff in the Kyrgyz Republic, governmental and non-governmental organizations to implement activities outlined in the approved project documents, work plans related to access to justice portfolio.
Competencies
Core Competencies:
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
- Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
- Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
- Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
- Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
- Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical Competencies:
- Monitoring:
- Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results
- Customer Satisfaction/Client Management:
- Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers’ needs.
- Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy.
- Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests.
- Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.
- Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding:
- Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms
- Communication:
- Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose сommunication methods depending on the audience.
- Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels
- Operations Management:
- Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organization’s business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner.
- Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanisms.
- Strategic Thinking:
- Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions
- Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP
- Project Management
- Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Master’s degree in law, political science or relevant field is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the Master’s degree.
Experience:
- Up to 2 years (with Master’s degree) or minimum 2 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience at the national or international level in legal aid, access to justice, human rights, or related areas is required.
Languages:
- Fluency in English, Russian and Kyrgyz languages is required.
Required Skills:
- Experience in using computers and office software packages such as (MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and web-based management systems is essential.
- Experience in working on development projects including planning, implementation, and monitoring of development projects is required
Desired Skills:
- Good knowledge understanding and experience of free legal aid concept is desired.
- Experience in working with vulnerable groups is a strong asset.
- Prior experience working with UNDP or other international organizations is an advantage.
- Experience/Knowledge of UNDP policies and procedures is a strong asset.
Disclaimer
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Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.
Non-discrimination
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority.
All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
UNDP is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
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REQUIRED EDUCATION: Bachelor Degree
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: 60