COMMUNICATION AND REPORTING OFFICER - NPPP II (FOR NEPALESE NATIONALS ONLY ) NEX PROJECT | |
| Location : | Kathmandu (Possibility of field visits), NEPAL |
| Application Deadline : | 28-Apr-13 |
| Additional Category | Democratic Governance |
| Type of Contract : | Other |
| Post Level : | Other |
| Languages Required : | English |
| Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) | 01-Jul-2013 |
Background
UNDP Nepal is working with government agencies, national human rights institutions, and civil society organizations, to implement a Strengthening the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protection System in Nepal’ Programme (ROLHR ). The ROLHR programme aims to ensure that women and vulnerable groups are able to benefit from a protective legal framework and many recent improvements in the field of administration of justice. The ROLHR will do so through a ‘three pronged’ approach. First, it will develop the capacity of vulnerable groups to access rule of law institutions and assert and enjoy their rights and entitlements. Second, it will support rule of law institutions to be more responsive to increased demands for justice service delivery, including in a changed context. Third, it will support the civil society as well as human rights actors, institutions, and media to work together to ensure accountability for justice service delivery.
To strengthen the administration of justice, the ROLHR will support the development of a justice sector reform process, through which rule of law institutions will define their own priorities and identify measures to effectively address them. The Programme will support justice sector institutions to conduct pilots to identify ‘what is needed’ and ‘what works’, and then to institutionalize successful pilot initiatives throughout Nepal, including through the development of research, planning, monitoring and evaluation capacities.
To strengthen access to justice, the ROLHR will also support: the revision of laws and development of human resource capacities needed to implement penal legislation, anti-gender based violence, caste based discrimination, and corruption legislation; an ‘affirmative action’ law degree scholarship and internship scheme through which vulnerable groups currently not well represented in the legal profession can obtain a law degree and practical work experience; and the development of a relevant, accessible and integrated socio-legal aid scheme, which will provide support to enable vulnerable groups to assert and enjoy their rights in civil and criminal cases, including poverty-reducing entitlements such as inheritance, pensions, education allowances, health and legal services.
To strengthen accountability for the delivery of justice and other services which promote and protect human rights, the Programme will support the development of the core institutional capacities which the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) needs to adapt to its new mandates provided by the NHRC Act. This component will implement a capacity development approach focused at three levels (Commissioner (leadership), Secretariat (management) and Programmatic (operations), with a view to further enabling the NHRC to perform its crucial ‘watchdog’ role, in terms of monitoring, promotion, advocacy, and complaints handling through investigations. A key focus of this component will be to develop the NHRC’s capacity to enable other national human rights institutions and actors to achieve critical mass on human rights issues through coordinated advocacy and other joint activities. Moreover, the Programme will also support a credible transitional justice process for conflict victims.
The justice sector reform process will be implemented through the Justice Sector Coordination Committee network, 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 component will result in the development of a national strategy for justice sector reform in Nepal, supported by a multi-donor funding mechanism. The programme will support the Ministry of Law, Justice, Constituent Assembly and Parliamentary Affairs (MoLJCAPA) to lead reform of Nepal’s legal aid landscape, towards the establishment of an integrated system which coordinates and regulates relevant, accessible socio-legal aid service provision throughout Nepal
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure that information and data from the field is captured, documented, analyzed and reported in a results-based and timely manner;
- Ensure effective communications, visibility and knowledge management;
- Contribute substantially to the proposal development process;
- Develop, implement and monitor a project communication and visibility plan, facilitate better understanding among partners about programme progress, and adhere to UNDP and development partner guidelines on communications and visibility;
- Undertake filed visits to gather the information and results related to the programme;
- Assist the all components of the programme in producing and documenting all kinds of programme related reports including visibility material;
- Establish and maintain fully operational state-of-art programme documentation unit;
- With input from the national monitoring and evaluation officer, produce high quality quarterly, six-monthly and annual programme progress reports;
- Provide high quality editing and formatting for all programme related documents;
- Support programme staff in organizing and managing seminars, workshops, press conferences and field visits as required;
- Prepare and edit press releases, programme related progress reports and documents;
- Provide relevant expert services to the project management unit, programme components and implementing partners on reporting and communications and act as a facilitator or trainer;
- Provide through progress reporting continuous analysis of the achievements, facilitate project review, evaluation and audits;
- Ensure the maintenance of sound filing system and appropriate use and recording of all project experience, activities and results;
- Implement all reporting and communication work of the programme
- Perform any other duties assigned by the project management unit and DNPM as per need of the programme.
Competencies
Functional Competencies:
- Remain open to change and ability to manage complexity
- Ability to work and act under pressure and with discretion in a politically sensitive environment
- Demonstrate capacity to plan, prioritize and deliver tasks on time to meet goals in a high pressure environment
- Maturity and confidence in dealing with high ranking official of government institutions, international institutions and non- government institutions
- Respect and sensitivity towards cultural, gender, ethnicity and religious diversity
- Competency on training and facilitating various programmes.
Corporate Competencies:
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
- Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
Required Skills and Experience
- Master’s degree in Mass communications, social sciences or releated areas.
- Five years relevant working experience.
- S/he should have an extensive experience in communication and diffusion strategies and techniques, reporting, documentation, publication, and audio-visual material preparation in relation to conservation and development fields.
- S/he should possess excellent writing, editing, and speaking skills in both English and Nepali.
- S/he should be well versed in the latest electronic publishing and graphics methods.
- Priority will be given to candidates who demonstrate a high level of motivation and good communication, social, and interpersonal skills
- S/he must be well versed in MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Nepali language typing.
- S/he must be fluent in both spoken and written Nepali and English languages. Knowledge of local languages will be asset.