[Hiring] National Consultant / Criminal and administrative law related to VAWG @UN Women

Role Description

UN Women plans to recruit a National Consultant on Criminal and administrative law related to VAWG, who will engage with relevant state and non-state stakeholders to strengthen compliance of Georgian legislation with the Istanbul Convention and other applicable international and regional standards. The consultant will also support the improvement of violence against women and domestic violence (VAWG/DV) services, enhance the capacities of service providers to meet international standards, deliver capacity development interventions, and develop and operationalize sexual harassment response mechanisms across governmental agencies, legislative bodies, and political parties, in line with national legislation and international best practices.

The National Consultant – Legal Expert will be responsible for:

• Engaging with relevant stakeholders to support the development of legislative and policy initiatives on VAWG/DV.
• Strengthening the capacities of relevant professionals.
• Establishing effective response mechanisms from administrative, criminal justice, and policing perspectives.
• Providing reports to UN Women, describing the completed work in a reporting format provided by UN Women.

Qualifications

• Higher university degree (master’s) in public policy, law, human rights, alternatively bachelor’s degree in public policy, law, human rights with at least two years of working experience could be considered in lieu of master’s degree.
• At least five (5) years with master’s (seven (7) years in case of bachelor’s degree) of experience in working on gender equality and VAW/DV within the criminal justice system, especially within law enforcement.
• At least five (5) years with master’s (seven (7) years in case of bachelor’s degree) of experience in working on VAWG/DV related legislation drafting.
• At least five (5) years with master’s (seven (7) years in case of bachelor’s degree) of experience in research and/or policy analysis on gender equality and VAW/DV.
• At least five (5) years with master’s (seven (7) years in case of bachelor’s degree) of experience in conducting training on gender equality and VAW/DV issues.
• Fluency in Georgian and English is required.

Requirements

• Develop draft amendments to VAWG/DV-related legislation, legislative initiatives, and relevant policy papers from administrative, criminal justice and policing perspective.
• Develop explanatory notes to the draft amendment and legislative initiatives.
• Facilitate consultations to collect comments and integrate in the relevant draft policy documents and bills as necessary.
• Participate in relevant Parliamentary Committee hearings of the bills.
• Perform other duties as necessary in relation to the policy and legislative initiatives (such as further research, data collection, inquiries, etc.).
• Work with relevant state agencies on their capacity development to ensure efficient response to VAWG/DV cases, sexual crimes, and sexual harassment.
• Elaborate/update relevant training modules on VAWG/DV and sexual crimes/offences for different professionals and conduct trainings as necessary.
• Develop a VAWG/DV case analysis methodology and analytical reports as necessary.
• Develop sexual harassment response mechanisms and support their operationalization in governmental agencies, legislative bodies, and political parties, aligned with national legislation, international best practices, and internal regulations of individual ministries/state agencies/parties.
• Provide capacity development trainings to governmental agencies, legislative bodies, and political parties on preventing and responding to sexual harassment in the workplace.
• Perform other duties as necessary in relation to data collection and capacity development interventions around gender-based violence prevention and response (such as further research, analysis of international standards and best practices/legislation, data collection, inquiries, etc.).

Benefits

• This is a home-based consultancy.
• Travel costs will be covered separately as per the UN Women’s travel policy.

Company Description

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