Background

UN Girls, grounded within the imaginative and prescient of equality enshrined within the Constitution of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination towards girls and ladies; the empowerment of girls; and the achievement of equality between ladies and men as companions and beneficiaries of improvement, human rights, humanitarian motion and peace and safety.

At headquarters, the Peace, Safety and Resilience Part leads on UN system-wide coordination on the Girls, Peace and Safety agenda, gives technical and monetary help to the peace and safety work of UN Girls nation places of work, and implements plenty of world initiatives to advertise girls’s rights, together with the significant participation of girls in all facets of peace and safety, and accountability for sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Within the space of rule of legislation and transitional justice, UN Girls works to strengthen inclusivity by producing information, offering experience, constructing partnerships, facilitating dialogue and strengthening the capability of actors engaged on rule of legislation and transitional justice efforts to reinforce girls’s significant participation and advance gender justice.

Underneath the supervision of the Coverage Specialist, Rule of Regulation and Transitional Justice (P4), the Coverage Analyst, Transitional Justice will help UN Girls’s work on gender-sensitive transitional justice. This contains supporting: implementation of UN Girls’s world programmes on transitional justice, together with the UN Girls-UNDP Gender Justice Platform and the UN Girls SGBV Justice Professional Deployment Programme; improvement of UN Girls’s coverage improvement and knowledge-building and sharing on transitional justice; coordination of UN Girls’s participation in inter-agency teams together with the UN World Focal Level on Rule of Regulation and its Working Group on Gender Justice, and the Interagency Transitional Justice Taskforce; and country-level capacity-building help and recommendation on transitional justice.

Duties and Tasks

1. Help implementation of UN Girls’s world programming on transitional justice, together with the UN Girls-UNDP Gender Justice Platform and the UN Girls SGBV Justice Consultants Deployment Programme:

• Help operational facets of UN Girls’s SGBV Justice Professional Deployment Programme, together with choice, recruitment and onboarding of consultants for deployment.
• Liaise with UN Girls nation places of work implementing world programming on transitional justice, to make sure high quality programming and well timed expenditure of funds.
• Help constructing relationships with key companions, together with by means of participation in coordination conferences with UNDP on the Gender Justice Platform, and with Justice Fast Response and OHCHR on the SGBV Justice Professional Deployment Programme.
• Help preparation of narrative reviews to donors and companions.

2. Help coverage improvement and knowledge-building and sharing on transitional justice and girls, peace and safety:

• Help finalization of ongoing UN Girls analysis tasks on transitional justice.
• Put together inputs to annual reviews of the Secretary-Normal on girls, peace and safety, and on the rule of legislation actions of the UN.
• Develop UN Girls’s analysis agenda on transitional justice, together with by conceptualizing, growing and disseminating information merchandise.
• Establish and disseminate classes learnt and good practices in collaboration with nation places of work, together with by means of participation in UN Girls’s neighborhood of observe on Girls, Peace and Safety.

3. Coordinate UN Girls’s participation in inter-agency for a and different coordination mechanisms on transitional justice, rule of legislation, and the ladies, peace and safety agenda:

• Help UN Girls’s participation the Inter-Company Transitional Justice Taskforce, the Rule of Regulation Coordination and Useful resource Group, and the UN World Focal Level on Rule of Regulation (GFP) and its working group on Gender Justice, together with by offering suggestions on documentation, getting ready UN Girls’s suggestions and inputs, liaising with related UN Girls nation places of work to organize for country-specific conferences and missions, and taking notes at conferences.
• Help UN Girls’s participation at related country-specific interagency activity forces, together with by liaising with UN Girls nation and regional places of work to organize speaking factors.

4. Help nation and regional places of work and their companions on gender-sensitive transitional justice:

• In collaboration with the Coverage Specialist, Rule of Regulation and Transitional Justice, present coverage recommendation and strategic steerage to UN Girls nation and regional places of work and their companions on actions and programming associated to gender-sensitive transitional justice.
• Help implementation and monitoring of capability constructing initiatives undertaken by nation and regional places of work on gender-sensitive transitional justice with UN Girls places of work and their companions.
• Help useful resource mobilization undertaken by UN Girls nation and regional places of work, together with recommendation on the event of funding proposals, for instance by means of the UN Peacebuilding Fund’s Gender and Youth Promotion Initiative.

5. The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed obligatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Workplace and the Group.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Range
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Consciousness and Sensitivity Relating to Gender Points
• Accountability
• Artistic Drawback Fixing
• Efficient Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Main by Instance

Please go to this hyperlink for extra data on UN Girls’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process#_Values

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

1. Wonderful information of gender-sensitive transitional justice, worldwide human rights legislation, worldwide humanitarian legislation and worldwide legal legislation
2. Data of UN human rights investigations
3. Well timed and high quality technical recommendation and help on gender-sensitive transitional justice
4. High quality reviews and different strategic paperwork drafted and submitted in a well timed method
5. Sturdy relationships with numerous companions and stakeholders
6. Illustration in essential conferences on subjects associated to experience
7. Well timed and high quality information merchandise

Required Abilities and Expertise

Training and Certification:

• Grasp’s diploma or equal in legislation, transitional justice, human rights, worldwide relations or different social science fields is required.
• A primary-level college diploma together with two further years of qualifying expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Expertise:

• Minimal of two years of progressively accountable expertise in transitional justice, girls, peace and safety, human rights or a associated area.
• Expertise in coverage evaluation and analysis regarding gender justice, transitional justice and/or girls, peace and safety is required.
• Expertise supporting programmes on the world or nation degree associated to gender justice, human rights, transitional justice and/or girls, peace and safety is required.
• Expertise working with the UN, significantly UN human rights investigations and UN coordination mechanisms on rule of legislation and transitional justice is fascinating.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Fluency in Spanish or French is fascinating.

Utility:

All functions should embody (as an attachment) the finished UN Girls Private Historical past kind (P-11) which will be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc. Kindly word that the system will solely enable one attachment. Purposes with out the finished UN Girls P-11 kind will likely be handled as incomplete and won’t be thought-about for additional evaluation.

Be aware:

In July 2010, the United Nations Normal Meeting created UN Girls, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Girls. The creation of UN Girls happened as a part of the UN reform agenda, bringing collectively assets and mandates for larger affect. It merges and builds on the essential work of 4 beforehand distinct elements of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which targeted completely on gender equality and girls’s empowerment.

Range and inclusion:

At UN Girls, we’re dedicated to creating a various and inclusive setting of mutual respect. UN Girls recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes no matter race, faith, shade, intercourse, gender identification, sexual orientation, age, capability, nationwide origin, or another foundation coated by applicable legislation. All employment is set on the premise of {qualifications}, competence, integrity and organizational want.

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UN Girls has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UN Girls, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to UN Girls’s insurance policies and procedures and the requirements of conduct anticipated of UN Girls personnel and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background verify.