Technical Coordinator - SGBV

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in coordination with United Nations Population Fund  (UNFPA) in Sri Lanka, seeks to promote justice sector approach to addressing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) against women and girls, and gender minorities, by designing and implementing a dedicated project titled “Justice Defined - Ensuring Justice for Victim-Survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Sri Lanka". The project envisions empowering women, girls, and gender minorities, including victim survivors of SGBV to access justice, and demand for better service delivery , and to have a society free of SGBV.

The project strategizes its approach under three main pillars for implementation;

• Pillar 1 is on enforcement and aims to enable increased agency, decision making and empowerment of victim survivors of SGBV, especially in marginalized, vulnerable, and fragile contexts, to access justice to redress SGBV and demand accountability from transformed and gender-responsive institutions. 
• Pillar 2 is on service provision and aims to enhance multi-sectoral coordinated and quality support services for victim survivors of SGBV to access justice and rebuild lives in a violence free environment. 
• Pillar 3 is on prevention and aims to enhance an environment of positive norms, attitudes, practices, and behaviours minimising and preventing SGBV and advocacy for zero violence.

Overall, the proposed intervention aims at creating transformative change through increased empowerment and voice of women, girls, and gender minorities, including victim survivors of SGBV, to independently and collectively hold the justice process, service providers and larger society accountable for their absolute right to be free of SGBV. 

The Technical Coordinator - SGBV is expected to ensure overall leadership and coordination of technical input for the effective implementation of the project. The role is expected to ensure that the project meets its objective by supporting transformative processes at individual, community, and institutional levels in order to improve access to justice for victim- survivors of SGBV.

The Technical Coordinator- SGBV  will be responsible for the implementation and coordination of multiple interventions of the Project under the technical guidance of the  UNDP Gender Specialist and direct supervision of SDG-16  Portfolio Coordinator. 

Support effective implementation of the project and achievement of quality results through efficient coordination of the following areas:

• Coordinate with respective UN and other agencies on planning and implementation of interventions, follow-up, including organizing of technical meetings to ensure the project implementation is done collaboratively and effectively. 
• Lead the development of annual workplans and/or revise work plans in collaboration with colleagues and partners
• Ensure high-quality delivery of outputs and activity results as per project documents
• Support monitoring of project implementation and achievements against outputs
• Preparation of reports in coordination with UNFPA and other relevant agencies and partners.

Provide quality and cutting-edge technical expertise for the effective implementation of activities

• Analyse national global trends and best practices, assess impact upon the thematic area of focus., and bring such into programming design, implementation, and advocacy.
• Contribute towards risk analysis, and ensure application of relevant principles relating to gender, conflict, and environment as cross-cutting factors in every aspect of activity implementation and management.
• Provide technical input towards the implementation of key activities and support

Provide technical support for advocacy and partnerships, Support to strengthen partnerships between government entities and civil society organizations, including through improved planning and policymaking

• Work with other relevant UNDP Technical and Communications colleagues to develop required advocacy messages, strategies, and materials
• To ensure the project is implemented in line with the policy framework and multi sectoral national action plan to address sexual and gender-based violence in Sri Lanka and other relevant policies and legal frameworks

• Results-based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus on improved performance and demonstrable results
• Risk Management: Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risk
• Communication: Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels
• Working with evidence and data: Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making
• Project Management: Ability to plan, organise, prioritise and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals

• Gender: Sexual Gender-based violence (SGBV); Gender Mainstreaming