Chief technical advisor justice sector facility jsf project bangladeshi nationals are not eligible to apply - Hoofdinhoud

UNDP Bangladesh is working with development partners and government agencies in the justice sector to develop a more strategic and coordinated approach to justice reform. The Justice Sector Facility (JSF) will be a three year directly implemented project to support policy dialogue, strategic planning, research, monitoring and evaluation, and pilot activities to improve the administration of justice across the sector. It is intended that this project will provide a stepping stone to a longer-term initiative to support the development of a national strategy for justice sector reform in Bangladesh. It will also link to UNDP’s other development projects working with police reform, village courts, human rights and parliament. The Chief Technical Adviser will report to the Country Director and will work in close coordination with the Democratic Governance Cluster. The Adviser will be responsible for successful implementation of the project document and achievement of development results.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Key Functions:

Technical advice on a better coordinated approach to access to justice;

Programme Management; and

Resource mobilization and partnerships across the justice sector.

Technical advice on a better coordinated approach to more accessible justice:

Provide technical advice to justice sector agencies and organizations in identifying blockages that hamper the delivery of justice services and agreeing cost effective and innovative solutions to address them;

Provide technical advice to justice sector agencies and organisations on a range of strategic policy issues related to justice sector reform;

Provide technical advice to justice sector agencies and organisations on strategic planning, research and monitoring and evaluation, including key performance indicators, strategic plans for various organizations and research into various issues which impact on institutional performance and access to justice;

Technical advice identifying entry points to achieve a mixture of short-term and medium term results which produce tangible improvements to access to justice;

Technical advice on the process for building and ensuring strong national ownership of the reform process and reform targets as well as longer term sustainability;

Ensuring the technical work undertaken across the project is in line with international good practice and adapted to the local context;

Ability to build a strong understanding of the political economy of the justice sector to identify the drivers and blockers of change and then develop strategies to ensure that project implementation is achieving impact ;

Ensure technical soundness of project activities and achievement of project outputs and outcomes.

Programme Management:

The Adviser’s prime responsibility is to produce the results specified in the annual work-plan, to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost;

Advise the UNDP Country Office on the overall implementation of the project including reporting on progress vis-a-vis planned activities and expected outputs, and making specific recommendations as required;

Manage project implementation, financial resource management, coordination and administration, using established guidelines and procedures of UNDP and the Government of Bangladesh to realize maximum performance and impact;

Formulate an effective monitoring and evaluation system of the project and report on progress, including reporting to UNDP, development partners and national stakeholders on progress;

Oversee and quality control the work of project staff and consultants to ensure the results are achieved in a timely manner;

Prepare various required reports including Progress reports, Financial Reports, Annual Progress Reports, etc. and organize timely completion of technical reports;

Lead annual work planning processes in a consultative manner.

Resource mobilization and partnerships:

Support effective and timely resource mobilisation in close collaboration with UNDP Country Office;

Coordinate programme activities with other UNDP initiatives as well as with other United Nations agencies and donors, to develop inter-agency synergies;

Build partnerships with justice sector agencies via coordination mechanisms such as case-management committees and case-management reforms;

Raise visibility of JSF and programme strategies at the LCG through knowledge sharing and well developed communication materials;

Liaise with and maintain regular contact with line ministries, UN agencies, and development partners, and support ongoing coordination efforts;

Develop pilot initiatives for functional partnerships between justice sector stakeholders and non-governmental organisations, local media and the public;

Support justice sector agencies and organisations to prepare business cases that can be approved by the JSF Outcome Board/Steering Committee;

Work closely with the UNDP Democratic Governance Cluster and Operations team to support efficient delivery of project activities in line with strategic objectives.

Impact of Results:

The key results have an impact on the overall success of the country programme and reaching UNDAF goals for access to justice.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

Promotes UN's Values and ethical standards (tolerance, integrity, respect, results orientation, impartiality);

Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and sensitivity and adaptability;

Demonstrates integrity by modeling in the UN's values and ethical standards (human Rights, peace, understanding between people and nations, tolerance, integrity, respect, results orientation, UNDP core ethics, impartiality.

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge Management and Learning

Promotes knowledge management and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example, excellent knowledge of capacity building theory and the application of methodology, good understanding of capacity assessment methodologies, excellent ability to identify significant capacity building opportunities, ability to get capacity building, excellent ability to demonstrate national capacities building (mastery of the tools and their application);

Display understanding of the relevant contemporary ICT tools and continuously act towards personal capacity building;

Development and Operational Effectiveness;

Ability to engage with high ranking UNDP Managers, Government Officials and international donor community and provide policy advisory support services;

Ability to identify opportunities, conceptualize and develop project reports;

Ability to effectively support in strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;

Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/attitude change.

Management and Leadership

Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;

Builds strong relationship with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback, timely responses to queries;

Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills;

Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;

Demonstrates strong administrative skills and result oriented approach to work;

Provides inspiration and leadership to project staff as well as all the partners.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master Degree in Law and or a relevant social science.

Experience:

At least 10 years of relevant professional experience, including at least five years in a senior position in an international development role in judicial or law reform;

Experience of sector wide approaches to justice reform, including experience working with all of the major actors is required;

Understanding of protocol and processes related to cultural norms of driving change processes with judges, lawyers, police and prison officials;

Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills including oral and written communication;

Demonstrated programme management skills including: results-based orientation, preparation of work plans, monitoring and evaluation, and leading cross-cultural teams;

Previous experience in South Asia would be an advantage.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in written and spoken English.

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