Position: Human Rights Specialist (Hot Job)
- No. of Openings 1
- Category NGO/INGO/Social/Develop.Projects
- Job Location 1
- Job Level Senior Level
- Salary Negotiable
- Education Level Master’s degree, preferably in law, political science, international relations or other disciplines related to human rights.
- Experience At least ten years of relevant experience at the national or international level.
- Expiry date Oct 25, 2017 (Expired)
Job Description
- Provide leadership to support the United Nations Country Team to integrate human rights principles and rights-based approaches into ongoing and envisaged humanitarian, recovery, peacebuilding/transition and development work in Nepal, including in the localization of the SDGs.
- Provide advice and guidance for the drafting of the Country Analysis and UNDAF 2018-2022 as well as the implementation of the existing UNDAF by strengthening the human rights-based approach in programming and implementation.
- Ensure, advise and guide integration of gender perspectives and attention to specific inclusion issues within all assigned activities.
- As part of remaining peacebuilding concerns, provide technical assistance to support the RC to provide leadership and coordination in the identified strategic priority area of transitional justice.
- As part of the transition period, support the translation of UN interventions on relevant root causes of conflict into longer-term programming to protect development gains.
- Analyse degree of implementation by Nepal of recommendations made by treaty bodies, Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Job Specification
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 Experience in working with civil society as well as on linkages between peacebuilding and human rights is a must.
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Previous experience with Nepal human rights organizations and specific exposure with transitional justice issues a distinct plus.
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Experience on gender and social inclusion highly is desirable.
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Previous experience in working in a decentralized environment is highly desirable.
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Previous experience with UN/UNDP systems and process is a distinctive advantage.
Language Requirements:
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Fluency in oral and written English and Nepali is essential.
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on 2017-10-25
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UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources ...
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in some 170 countries and territories, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. UNDP has been supporting the Nepalese people in their struggle against poverty since it opened an in-country office in 1963.
