Job Overview
Job Identification : 12612
Locations : Suva, Fiji
Posting Date : 08/24/2023, 11:23 AM
Apply Before : 09/08/2023, 03:59 AM
Job Schedule : Full time
Agency : Office High Comm for Human Rig
Grade : NOA
Vacancy Type : Temporary
Practice Area : Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights
Bureau : Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
Contract Duration : 5 months
Education & Work Experience : Master’s Degree
Other Criteria : bachelor’s degree with 2 years
Required Languages : English
Vacancy Timeline
2 Weeks
Mobility required/no mobility
no mobility required
Job Description
Background
The OHCHR Regional Office for the Pacific is based in Suva, Fiji. It covers 16 countries and territories in the region, – Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
The incumbent will be responsible for various activities related to human rights and climate change. Responsibilities will include developing research and legal analysis on the implications of climate change on the enjoyment of human rights as well as the level of compliance with human rights obligations in the region and preparing relevant documentation.
The incumbent will also support the Pacific Climate Change Migration and Human security (PCCMHS) programme. This regional project seeks to protect and empower communities adversely affected by climate change and disasters in the Pacific region, focusing specifically on climate change and disaster-related migration, displacement, and planned relocation. The programme is delivered through a partnership between the UN Agencies of IOM, ILO, OHCHR, and ESCAP. Platform on Disaster Displacement and Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat are non-UN implementing partners.
A key component of the project is to facilitate the development of a regional rights-based framework on climate change-related displacement, migration, and planned relocation. The project will also empower communities affected by climate change through training and skills development activities to increase access to labour mobility schemes, and pre-departure orientation to empower migrants to migrate safely with an understanding of their rights. The project will also increase the capacity of government and non-government stakeholders to promote labour mobility that is safe, regular, and inclusive.
Job Purpose
Under the overall supervision of the Regional Representative including substantive oversight of deliverables, the incumbent will carry out activities related to human rights and climate change, including the implementation of the Pacific Climate Change Migration and Human Security Programme (PCCMHS). His/her responsibilities include research and legal analysis on the implications of climate change on the enjoyment of human rights, coordination with PCCMHS programme partners, organizing workshops, oversee recruitment and tracking or research consultants, provide updates on programme progress to RR and other stakeholders. S/he will also develop activity plans, oversee narrative and financial reports for OHCHR activities, and provide technical inputs to materials developed by the programme.
Duties and Responsibilities
1) Convene regional consultations to review the draft rights-based regional framework on climate mobility as developed under PCCMHS phase I
- Work with implementing partners to support/participate in combined consultations and advocacy campaigns.
- Deliver presentations and facilitate discussions.
2) Increase capacity on available human rights tools and guidelines on climate change
- Support capacity development in conducting surveys to identify capacity gaps within governments and communities on managing climate change.
- Draft and propose advocacy tools on human rights approaches to climate change.
- Organise and conduct meeting and consultations for community and government consultations
3) Support NHRIs in monitoring the implementation of government policies related to climate change, conducting national inquiries and handling individual complaints and other human rights protection-related issues
- Develop modules in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
- Conduct trainings on identified topics to select national and subnational government officials.
- Support NHRIs in monitoring the implementation of government policies related to climate change, conducting national inquiries, and handling individual complaints and other human rights protection-related issues.
- Provide technical support on ratification and implementation of key UN conventions relating to human rights protection and climate change.
4) Provide technical support on ratification and implementation of key UN conventions relating to human rights protection and climate change
- Conduct surveys to identify capacity gaps on managing climate change (psychosocial/spiritual support, planned relocation processes, human rights and gender equality-informed approaches etc.)
- Mapping/research to understand community perspectives of climate change.
- Develop modules in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
- Conduct trainings for community leaders
5) Develop knowledge and communications products that support the preservation of traditional knowledge and uphold cultural rights in the context of climate change
- Support the development of knowledge and communications products that uphold cultural rights and support the preservation of traditional knowledge in the context of climate change.
- Propose knowledge products and dissemination of the links between human rights and climate change in the Pacific to CSOs/NHRIs
- Support capacity development of CSOs, workers and employers’ organizations to engage with and influence discussions of climate change and human rights in relevant forums at the national, regional and global levels.
Core Competencies
- Achieve Results:LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
- Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
- Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
- Adapt with Agility:LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
- Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
- Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:
- Business Direction & Strategy: System Thinking: Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system.
- Business Direction & Strategy: Negotiation and Influence: Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates ‘win-win’ situations
- Business Development: Human-centered Design: Ability to develop solutions to problems involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process
- Business Development: Knowledge Facilitation: Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally
- 2030 Agenda: Planet: Nature, Climate and Energy: Climate Change Adaptation: livelihoods
- Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights: Environmental justice
- Peace: Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights: Human Rights /HRBA
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Community Development, Environment, International Human Rights Law, Political science or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two years of qualifying experience working in a similar field may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
Experience:
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in the relevant field with at least 2 years work experience on Human Rights, Governance and/or Climate Change issues
- At least 1 years of progressively responsible experience in support, monitoring, and reporting of development projects/ programmes.
- At least 1 year on Human Rights, Governance and/ Climate Change issues is considered a strong asset.
- Experience in international organisations, such as the UN, or other regional or international intergovernmental/non-governmental organisations working in a similar field. Field experience is an asset.
- Proficiency in the English language
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Non-discrimination
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