Programme Officer (Human Rights)
Background
The United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) aims to support Kenya in implementing the country’s national development strategy, as articulated in Kenya Vision 2030 and its first 5 year Medium Term Plan.
Further, the programme aims to enhance the mutual agreement between the
Government of Kenya and the UN, for the realization of fundamental human rights
principles enshrined in the international human rights Instruments and
Declarations to which the Government of Kenya and the UN are committed.Background
The United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) aims to support Kenya in implementing the country’s national development strategy, as articulated in Kenya Vision 2030 and its first 5 year Medium Term Plan.
On safeguarding human rights, UN assistance aims to provide strategic and timely support to UN agencies, the GoK, KNCHR and civil society organizations through the Human Rights Unit under the UN Resident Coordinator’s office.
Position Information
The Unit’s primary focus in 2012/13 includes:
- Coordination
of human rights input into implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
UN-DAF;
- Ensuring
UN continuation as strategic leader on Transitional Justice;
- Strengthening
UN and partners capacity on the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA);
- Increasing
strategic partnerships for advocacy and provision of assistance to
victims, witnesses, human rights defenders and marginalized groups;
Assisting the UN, GoK in UPR process and implementation of recommendations
as well as providing substantive and technical support to UN agencies on
request.
- Underpinning
this work are the principles of inclusivity and effective participation of
marginalized groups, including women, youth and persons with disabilities.
The Programme Officer’s key area of responsibility will be to
assist the Human Rights Unit in implementation of the above mentioned tasks.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- A
Masters Degree in Law, Political Science, Human Rights, Social Science,
International Relations, Development Studies or other relevant area.
- Additional
qualifications in programme/project management would be an added
advantage.
Experience
- Minimum
of two (2) years experience working in the area of human rights.
- Sound
knowledge of and experience in the development and implementation of human
rights related projects and programmes.
- Sound
research and analytical capacity in the field of human rights, including
thorough understanding of the national and international human rights
protection system
- Good
knowledge and experience in human rights and gender mainstreaming in
development programmes.
- Good
experience in monitoring and evaluation of programmes/projects.
Application Procedure
Interested and qualified persons should apply on the UNDP Kenya e-Recruitment portal located on the UNDP Kenya website -http://www.ke.undp.org on or before 2 May 2012. Select “e-Recruitment Portal” under “Operations/Human Resources”.
Applicants are required to fill and sign a Personal History Form (P11) Form and submit it together with their online application.
The P11 Form can be accessed on the above link.
Applications received via other means will not be accepted.
Additional considerations
Interested and qualified persons should apply on the UNDP Kenya e-Recruitment portal located on the UNDP Kenya website -http://www.ke.undp.org on or before 2 May 2012. Select “e-Recruitment Portal” under “Operations/Human Resources”.
Applicants are required to fill and sign a Personal History Form (P11) Form and submit it together with their online application.
The P11 Form can be accessed on the above link.
Applications received via other means will not be accepted.
Additional considerations
- Applications
received after the deadline will not be considered.
- UNDP
will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is
further interest.
“UNDP is an equal opportunity employer which strives to achieve
overall balance in its staffing patterns”.