UN Women - In July 2010, the United nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.
They are actively recruiting for the position below.
Role Title: National Legal Expert
Location: FCT, Abuja.
Role Responsibilities:
- Under the strategic guidance and supervision of UN Women Country Representative, with day-to-day reporting to the Deputy Country Representative, the consultant will undertake a comprehensive mapping of the legal landscape of Nigeria for purposes of capturing all forms of legal frameworks (Laws, legislative instruments, executive orders, case law and other relevant and related government legal frameworks).
- The legal texts in question must cover legislation that is specifically related to women and girls, as well as other fields and sectors. Each legal text will be analyzed to determine how their provisions impact upon the achievement of gender equality. The report outline will cover the following:
- The plural legal, political, social, economic and cultural context of Nigeria
- Nigeria’s commitments to global, regional and sub-regional frameworks which advance gender equality.
- The extent to which these commitments have been translated into domestic law, identifiable gaps in the content of existing laws as well as implementation and the reasons for such gaps.
- An analysis of other sectoral laws and how these impact on the achievement of gender equality.
- Whether and how the laws in question explicitly treat women and men or girls and boys differently and/or indirectly based on being facially neutral on its face but discriminatory in effect due to pre-existing inequalities that are not addressed by the apparently neutral measure.
- Following the above narrative, the consultant will annex to the report, a table which encapsulates (1) the titles and dates of all the laws under investigation; (2) the sections which are explicitly or implicitly discriminatory; (3) gaps in the law; (4) the basis for arriving at these conclusions and (4) recommended actions to relevant stakeholders
- Conduct a legal analysis from a gender perspective of agreed sectors of national legislation.
- You undertake consultations with key stakeholders to identify the sectoral laws for revision.
- You will handle comprehensive report including the annex mentioned in II.6.
Required Qualifications:
- A master’s degree holder in Law. A PhD will be an added value.
- A minimum ten years’ experience on the legal landscape of Nigeria from a gender perspective and ability to undertake a gender analysis of national legislation and policy documents.
- Proven knowledge of international practices, legislations and policies; and instruments, including women’s rights; and /or the protection of human rights.
- Experience in managing and facilitating high-level dialogues, round table discussions, consultations, with stakeholders at both grassroots and national levels.
- Experience of working with CSOs initiatives and government.
- Proven experience to collect, analyze and interpret complex qualitative and quantitative data.
- Excellent command of English is required.
- Previous professional experience with development agencies and the United Nations would be considered an asset.
Application Deadline:
September 15th 2020
Application Guidelines:
To apply, click on the link below.
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