Job Opening: UNDP Business and Human Rights and Peace Specialist (Travel Expenses Covered) 2025.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking a dedicated and knowledgeable Business and Human Rights and Peace Specialist for a unique home-based opportunity in 2025. This role is pivotal in advancing our mission to promote sustainable development through the integration of human rights and peace-building approaches in the business sector.
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As a specialist, you will work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, including governments, civil society, and the private sector, to develop and implement strategies that uphold human rights and foster peace. Your expertise will contribute to creating a more equitable and just world, ensuring that businesses operate responsibly and contribute positively to their communities.
If you are passionate about human rights, peace, and sustainable business practices, we invite you to apply for this impactful position. Join us in making a difference on a global scale!
Cross-Functional & Technical Competencies
- 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.
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- Entrepreneurial Thinking:
- Identify and seize opportunities to service and add value to clients, create clarity around UNDP value proposition to beneficiaries and partners, develop clear service offers responding to client needs in line with UNDP’s organizational priorities and mandate.
- Rule of Law Security and Human Rights:
- Business and Human Rights.
- Human Rights/HRBA.
- Private Sector Engagement:
- Ability to identify, conduct outreach, and manage relationships with the private sector.
- Project Management:
- Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goal.
- Partnership Management:
- Build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Master’s degree in Law, Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, International Relations, Political Science, Development, Peace Studies or relevant field is required, OR;
- Bachelor’s degree in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- A minimum of seven (7) years (with master’s degree) or 9 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience in human rights and/or BHR is required.
- At least 7 years of relevant professional experience with intergovernmental organizations is required.
Required Skills:
- Expertise in human rights due diligence is required;
- Previous experience in drafting project concept notes and documents and successful resource mobilization initiatives on human rights and/or BHR is required;
- Previous experience in global project management, including quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation, partnerships, visibility, reporting, etc is required.
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Desired Skills:
- Previous experience working on human rights with UNDP and/or other UN Agencies is an asset;
- Expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) is an asset;
- Knowledge of the application of the UNGPs to conflict settings is an asset;
- Expertise in heightened human rights due diligence is an asset;
- Previous experience in developing and implementing human rights-related services to the business sector is an asset;
- Expertise and previous experience in communications for development/human rights is an asset.
Required Languages:
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of another UN official language is an asset.
Travel
UNDP will cover the cost of travel of the Business and Human Rights and Peace Specialist to the Duty Station, as well as their return to their home upon completion of their services. Travel costs are covered only in the event that the function will be undertaken physically in the Duty Station and excludes working from home arrangements.
