Project Manager, Business and Human Rights

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UNDP works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities through the sustainable development of nations, in more than 170 countries and territories.
The Regional Bureau of Asia has the responsibility to guide and support 24 Country Offices in achieving the objectives of UNDP's Strategic Plan.
RBAP staff provides technical advice to Country Offices, governments and other relevant stakeholders; advocates for UNDP corporate messages and represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas.

Rapid and continued economic dynamism has translated into growth and reduced poverty levels in several countries in Asia and the Pacific.
Greater foreign direct investments and capital movements, accentuated by higher regional mobility, are reasons for further optimism for future regional growth.
This progress has often come at the expense of the human rights of minorities, marginalized and disadvantaged and at-risk groups in the interest of investments and financial gains.

The UNDP Asia-Pacific, Governance and Peacebuilding Team, Business and Human Rights (BHR) Unit, is currently engaged in promoting the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP).
The UNGP clarifies the duty of states and the responsibility of businesses to uphold international norms and treaties on human rights.
These Guiding Principles rest on three pillars:
1) the State's duty to protect human rights; 2) the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and; 3) the joint-responsibility of both the State and businesses sector to provide access to remedy for victims of business-related abuses.

Momentum supporting the implementation of the UNGPs through National Action Plans (NAPs) is developing quickly in the region.
Nurturing this, an already well-developed community of industry advocates, human rights activists, and development practitioners are deepening their work on a wide variety of thematic area or industry-specific BHR activities.
While leading national and multi-national corporations are embedding human rights due diligence approaches into their operational policies and corporate communication profiles.

B+HR Asia:
Enabling Sustainable Economic Development through the Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework supports the implementation of the UNGPs in close partnership with Asian governments, business, and civil society, through dialogue, training, research, small grant provision and awareness raising activities.

The project is focused on seven Asian countries; India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand implementing a broad range of activities targeting a variety of stakeholders including governments, state officials, members of the business sector, Civil Society Organizations, National Human Rights Institutions, UN entities and international organizations, and influencers in the area of business, human rights and economic polic y with funding from from the European Union's Partnership Instrument.

The Business and Human Rights Specialist, based in Bangkok, is responsible for contributing to policy and project support to Country Offices in Asia (with an emphasis on Southeast Asia) on Business and Human Rights.
S/he will provide management support for Business and Human Rights project planning, administration and reporting, undertake policy research and develop knowledge products as well as support communication, partnership-building and resource mobilization.

S/he acts under the guidance of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Regional Advisor in response to requests from country offices and in collaboration with the Governance and Peacebuilding team.
S/he works with teams across the Regional Hub, Country Offices, Global Policy Centers and the UN system to ensure the execution of quality and coherent policy and project advisory services within their region as well as alignment with the Strategic Plan.
S/he is responsible for performing and contributing to the following:

Project Management
Supervision of project staff
Communication, Partnership-Building and support to Resource Mobilization
• Responsibilities

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