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Background
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Assignment start date: immediate
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter
of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination
against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement
of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of
development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
Peace and Security is a key area of UN Women's work. At headquarters,
the Peace and Security Section leads on UN system-wide coordination on
Women, Peace and Security, provides technical and financial support to
the peace and security work of UN Women field offices, and implements a
number of global initiatives that range from training women on
mediation, peacekeepers on preventing and responding to sexual violence,
and experts on investigation and documentation of international crimes,
to rapidly deploying gender advisors to commissions of inquiry, peace
talks, and post-conflict planning and financing processes, supporting
gender-responsive public service delivery, and linking women in the
community and grassroots organizations to police and other actors to
ensure better protection.
A key area of UN-Women’s work is ensuring access to justice for women
and the equal application of the rule of law. Effective judicial and
legal systems not only ensure the protection and advancement of women’s
rights, but can provide an enabling environment to address
discriminatory practices which impede development. From a women’s human
rights and rule of law perspective, at no time is legal protection more
necessary, or more fragile, than during and in the immediate aftermath
of conflicts when women’s experiences of insecurity and violations often
continue unabated. Securing accountability and ending impunity for
sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and asserting women’s access to
the full range of rights are some of the most challenging yet
fundamental conditions for the restoration of the rule of law
post-conflict. In close collaboration with the head of the relevant
international accountability mechanism and the Chief Advisor, Peace and
Security, UN Women, the Gender Specialist/ SGBV Investigator will
contribute to implementation of UN Women’s mandate on promoting women’s
access to justice and the rule of law through providing technical
support to international accountability mechanisms in training,
documentation and investigation of SGBV crimes under international law.
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Duties and Responsibilities
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Summary of Key Functions:
- Provide technical support to the work of international
accountability bodies supported by UN Women by ensuring that appropriate
attention is given to the gendered dimensions of human rights,
including through gender analysis and training;
- Liaise with international accountability bodies and UN Women;
- Ensure proper documentation and investigation of cases of SGBV and
other gender based human rights violations and abuses by international
justice mechanisms.
Description of Functions:
- Research and collect information pertaining to women’s human rights
and gender issues directly related to the mandate of the international
mechanisms, including violations of women’s economic and social rights,
political and civil rights as well as SGBV;
- Analyze existing documentation and propose gender-sensitive
investigation methods according to the mandate of the international
mechanisms including ensuring that all investigators are aware of the
gendered dimensions of human rights violations, specific vulnerability
of different categories of women (girls, mothers, repatriate women,
women in prisons and camps, girls and women living with disabilities and
elderly women), security arrangements are gender-sensitive and that
cultural and political gender considerations are duly taken into
account. The incumbent will also make sure how to identify violence
against women in private and public settings;
- Conduct and/or assist in the conduct of interviews and evidence
gathering activities, ensuring that necessary measures of protection and
confidentiality for witnesses and victims of women’s human rights
violations are implemented throughout and that the gender-specific
impact of violations is assessed;
- Provide advice, awareness-raising, and inputs to the justice
mechanisms’ mandate –ensuring that all investigators are aware of how to
identify documentation and investigation of human rights violations of
women including SGBV and the gendered impacts of human rights and
international humanitarian law violations, that security arrangements
are gender-sensitive, that cultural and contextual gender considerations
are considered;
- Ensure that the necessary measures of protection and confidentiality
for witnesses and victims of women’s human rights violations and abuses
are implemented, including measures such as working with local women’s
organizations;
- Contribute to briefings, interview notes and analytical documents as
required to ensure adequate attention to women’s human rights and
gender issues;
- Contribute to the drafting of the investigation outcome document and
final report, incorporating a gender perspective and gender-sensitive
language. This includes ensuring that the analysis of facts to establish
human rights violations reflects a gender dimension, including when
addressing SGBV;
- Prepare an internal report for UN Women reflecting on the work of
the gender specialist/ SGBV Investigator and any recommendations for
strengthening the gendered work of such bodies in future;
- Perform any other duties, as required by the Chief, Peace and Security, UN Women.
Impact of Results
The appropriate investigation procedures of all international
accountability mechanisms UN Women supports will reflect good practice
in the investigation of SGBV cases, gender-sensitive approaches; full
documentation of violations of women’s rights under international law;
and advance women’s access to justice.
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Competencies
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Core values and Guiding principles:
Integrity:
- Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN
Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
Professionalism:
- Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.
Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity:
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff;
- Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.
Core Competencies:
Ethics and Values:
- Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity.
Organizational Awareness:
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.
Work in teams:
- Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi-ethnic
environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of
different national and cultural backgrounds.
Communicating and Information Sharing:
- Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication.
Self-management and Emotional Intelligence:
- Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense
situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior
towards others.
Conflict Management:
- Surface conflicts and address them proactively acknowledging
different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually
acceptable solution.
Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing:
- Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge.
Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:
- Demonstrate informed and transparent decision-making.
Functional Competencies:
- Proven ability to conduct complex human rights investigations,
including expertise in monitoring and documenting SGBV and understanding
of gender-specific protection concerns;
- Expertise in women’s human rights and gender dimension of human
rights, including economic and social rights, political and civil rights
and SGBV;
- Good analytical capacity;
- Solid knowledge in witness and victim protection and data protection;
- Trained in management of data;
- Demonstrated people management skills;
- Ability to speak and write in a clear manner including ability to
draft a variety of reports; correspondence using gender-sensitive
language;
- Excellent writing and communication skills;
- Familiarity with the UN system and good knowledge of UN Women.
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Required Skills and Experience
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Education:
- Advanced study (Master’s or equivalent) in law, political sciences,
international relations, gender studies or other disciplines related to
human rights;
- A combination of relevant academic qualifications and extensive
experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in human
rights investigation with a focus on women’s human rights and gender
issues
Languages:
- Fluency in English is required.
Important Application Information:
- All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN
Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
- Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment.
Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as
incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment;
- UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.
Note:
In July 2010, the United nations General Assembly created UN Women,
the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform
agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It
merges and builds on the important
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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.
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