Overview
The Gender Justice Project Analyst will support the implementation and coordination of regional gender justice initiatives, with a primary focus on the Asia-Pacific Women Judges Network (APWJN) and initiatives promoting women's leadership in the judiciary.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day implementation and coordination of regional gender justice initiatives.
- Manage the implementation of the Asia-Pacific Women Judges Network (APWJN) and related initiatives.
- Develop annual and quarterly workplans, implementation schedules, budgets, procurement plans, and risk management measures.
- Coordinate and oversee the implementation of regional and national activities, including judicial leadership colloquiums, consultations, peer-learning exchanges, leadership development programmes, mentoring initiatives, and regional convenings.
- Monitor implementation progress, identify bottlenecks, propose corrective actions, and ensure timely achievement of project milestones and targets.
- Support the generation, application and dissemination of knowledge and evidence to strengthen gender-responsive justice systems and women's leadership in the judiciary.
- Support the development of research, policy analysis, guidance notes, knowledge products and practical tools.
- Coordinate the collection and analysis of data, evidence, lessons learned and good practices.
- Contribute to the development of policy initiatives and technical guidance on emerging gender justice issues.
- Identify emerging trends and opportunities related to gender justice and women's judicial leadership.
- Prepare donor reports, progress reports, briefing notes, presentations, concept papers and management updates.
- Develop and maintain knowledge management systems.
- Support implementation of communication and visibility activities.
- Facilitate regional knowledge exchange and learning.
- Strengthen strategic partnerships and support resource mobilization efforts.
- Serve as the regional coordination focal point for APWJN.
- Foster partnerships with UN entities, regional organizations, academic institutions, civil society organizations and professional networks.
- Support the organization and coordination of steering committees, advisory group meetings, technical consultations and partnership forums.
- Support senior management engagement with donors and strategic partners.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience on programme support and coordination preferably in the area of access to justice, rule of law, human rights or related fields.
- Experience in successfully designing, planning and managing the implementation of multi country or regional initiatives including cross-country knowledge exchange activities and workshops involving multiple countries;
- Experience in leading or facilitating judicial knowledge exchanges, with a track record of successful exchanges, partnerships, and knowledge-sharing activities;
- Experience in planning, coordinating and executing high-profile events, workshops, and forums at both country and regional levels;
- Experience working on rule of law, justice, or gender equality programming;
- Experience in mainstreaming gender equality within international development projects;
- Experience working in the in Asia and/or Pacific region
- Prior UN or international experience.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Law, Gender, Human Rights, Political Science, International Relations, other Social Sciences or related disciplines is required. Or A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.
