Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

From Peace and Collaborative Networking website:

Soliya is offering a volunteer facilitator position including a free-of-charge facilitation and conflict resolution training. This is for people

• Interested in the relationship between the “West” and the “Arab & Muslim World”
• Passionate about connecting students from different parts of the world
• Eager to facilitate dialogue, break stereotypes and promote understanding among students from diverse
• cultural backgrounds

Read more at http://www.soliya.net/facilitation

Dear HumanDHS friends,

please note this announcement from the Peace and Collaboration Development website.

Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff

Dear HumanDHS friends,

please read the message below from Jennifer Batton, announcing this open position plus other news.

Kind regards

Uli Spalthoff (more…)

Dear HumanDHS friends,

please read the message below from the United Network of Young Peacebuilders, currently offering a position for an International Secretariat & Outreach Coordinator.

Kind regards,

Uli Spalthoff (more…)

Strategic Review of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development

TOR: Strategic Review Consultant

Application submission: August 7, 2010 for August-September 2010 review

The Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (JPD) has been in operation for eight years and is looking to conduct a strategic review of its operations with a view to charting potential ways forward to ensure the Journal’s self-sufficiency and sustainability. JPD’s Management Team, supported by its multi-year donor, the International Development Research Council (IDRC) of Canada, wish to identify a suitable candidate to undertake a 25 day Strategic Review, aiming to achieve the following:

* Review of the Journal’s vision, strategies and achievements to date, its continuing niche

* Identification of key strengths and weaknesses in achieving its mandate, its effectiveness

* Review and analysis of business strategies undertaken to date, and mapping of possible strategies with potential to ensure the Journal’s self-sufficiency and sustainability

* Identify priority short, medium and longer-term actions in line with suggested strategies, and resources and capacities required to undertake them

Duties

With support from the JPD management team, the Consultant will be responsible for carrying out the review and submitting the final report. Specifically, s/he will:

* Clarify the evaluation ToR with the JPD management; Develop a strategic review methodology, with evaluation questions and business plan framework,timetable and work plan; discuss with JPD management

* Review the Project:

o Conduct analysis of the key project documents and desk review of other relevant documents, including the Journal itself, progress and annual reports, budgets and financial reports and other relevant documents

o Identify key informants/resource persons, conduct face-to-face and phone interviews with Advisory Board members, staff, authors and subscribers/readers of JPD, visiting editors, publishers, librarians, donors and partners, other journal editing and marketing senior staff for comparative analysis purposes

o Examine managerial structure and editorial process; suggest options for increased effectiveness

o Assess results, achievements, challenges and opportunities. Develop and map potential business plan options that suggest routes for JPD’s sustainability – i.e. marketing and subscriptions, grants, partnership options, publishing arrangements – and what is needed to achieve these.

* Present preliminary evaluation results to JPD project team and selected Advisory Board members, and collect their feedback in order to finalize the report

* Submit final report (strategic review, business plan) to JPD management addressing above aims and tasks.

Required skills and competencies

* Experience in leading an organizational evaluation and business plan development

* Excellent communication skills to facilitate interviews

* Demonstrated ability to produce high quality evaluation reports in English, including in-depth analysis and strategic recommendations for future work of the funding organization/donor

Preferred:

* Understanding of journal publishing, marketing and subscriptions strategies

* Experience and understanding of international civil society and donor projects and funding, and in particular of working in the South and/or with Southern partners

* Understanding of peacebuilding and development scholarship and practice

from the Peace and Collaborative Networking web site:

The Wilson Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.

For more details see http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Fellowships.welcome

Project: Harlem Community Justice Center

Title: Help Center Coordinator

The Center for Court Innovation, a project of the Fund for the City of New York, is a unique public-private partnership that promotes new thinking about how courts and criminal justice agencies can aid victims, change the behavior of offenders, and strengthen communities. The Center creates demonstration projects that test new approaches to problems that have resisted conventional solutions. The Center’s problem-solving courts include the nation’s first community court (Midtown Community Court), as well as drug courts, domestic violence courts, youth courts, mental health courts, and others. Nationally and internationally, the Center performs original research on topics of justice reform and provides consulting services to criminal justice innovators. The Harlem Community Justice Center (“Justice Center”) is a project of the Center for Court Innovation.

The Justice Center is seeking an experienced professional with knowledge of Housing Court to coordinate its on-site Help Center. Located in an old magistrate’s courthouse in the heart of East Harlem, the Harlem Community Justice Center is a community-based court and resource center that works to solve neighborhood problems in East and Central Harlem, including juvenile delinquency, deteriorating housing, substance abuse, and the challenges presented by ex-offenders returning from incarceration. The goal of the on-site Help Center is to ensure access to justice for all litigants in Housing and Family Court regardless of their background, ability to pay, or special needs. Working in a collaborative manner, the Help Center Coordinator performs clerical tasks and day-to-day administrative duties. They answer phones, call for interpreters, schedule mediations, enter data in the Justice Center database, distribute and store in-take forms, provide pamphlets/fact sheets/court publications, monitor supplies, conduct community outreach/education events, and communicate regularly with the Pro-Se Attorney, Clerk’s Office staff, and other partner agency staff. The Coordinator also manages the Justice Center’s mediation program. The Help Center Coordinator reports to the Court Operations Coordinator.

Duties

* Ensure that Help Center clients are screened and assessed and intake forms are recorded in the Justice Center database.

* Prioritize persons with a current case in Housing or Family Court and vulnerable persons facing eviction, domestic abuse, or are otherwise in a crisis situation that requires immediate attention.

* Provide case management for high-risk and vulnerable Housing Court clients.

* Provide excellent client service insuring that the Help Center waiting area and office are pleasant friendly and responsive to client needs at all times.

* Insure that the Help Center is open and operational Monday- Friday from 9 to 5pm, and at all times when Housing and Family Courts are in session.

* Provide access to Housing and Family Court information for represented and self-represented litigants through referrals to the Pro Se Attorney, use of online tools, and the provision of Civil Court pamphlets and brochures.

* Promote use of the public access computers and other online supports available through the Civil Court for litigants.

* Coordinate on-site mediation services: Intake cases, schedule volunteers, and generate written agreements.

* Organize workshops for litigants and the broader community that facilitate access to justice through the Courts and related agencies.

* Conduct community outreach for Housing Court seminars.

* Coordinate referrals for services for litigants to in-house and community-based services.

* Maintain daily sign-in sheets.

* Supervise assigned volunteers/interns.

* Collaborate with the Pro Se Attorney on Orders to Show Cause.

* Complete reports in a timely and accurate manner.

Requirements:

* Bachelor’s degree required;

* Knowledge of basic NYS housing law and the Housing Court process required;

* Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution experience required;

* Excellent client engagement skills required;

* Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) highly desired;

* Knowledge of family law and the Family Court processes desired;

* Sound analytical and writing skills;

* Excellent presentation skills;

* Experience with Microsoft Office and database programs (Access/Filemaker);

Salary: Commensurate with experience — excellent benefits.

Posting Date: 6/28/2010

Closing Date: 8/1/2010

Send resume and writing sample to:

Sally Sanchez

Harlem Community Justice Center

170 East 121st Street

New York, NY 10035

Fax (212) 360-4996

Email: SSANCHEZ@courts.state.ny.us

The Harlem Community Justice Center is operated by the Center for Court Innovation, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. See our website at www.courtinnovation.org.

Dear HumanDHS friends,

details about this PhD grants can be found at the Peace and Collaborative Networking web site.

Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff

For more info, go to http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/current-vacancies [click on ombudsman]

International Organization for Migration

OPEN TO INTERNAL & NON-REPRESENTED MEMBER STATES CANDIDATES

Position Title   : Ombudsperson

Duty Station  :     Geneva, Switzerland

Classification  : Official, Grade P5

Type of Appointment  : Fixed-term, one year with possibility of extension

Estimated Start Date  : As soon as possible

Closing Date  : July 14, 2010

Reference Code  : VN 2009/70 (O)  -  INT

IOM has a proactive recruitment policy to increase the representation of nationals of non-represented member states. Qualified applicants from the following countries will be favorably considered:

Armenia, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Guatemala, Guinea, Jamaica, Libya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritania, Mongolia, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria,  Paraguay, Slovenia, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Yemen, Zambia

General Functions:

The position of the Ombudsperson within the Office of the Director General serves as an independent person to address employment-related problems of staff members.  The function operates in accordance with the Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics of the International Ombudsman Association.  The role of the Ombudsperson is to mediate in conflicts of any nature related to employment with IOM, inter alia matters pertaining to conditions of employment, administration of benefits, managerial practices as well as professional and staff relations matters.  The successful candidate will have direct access to the Director General and Deputy Director General, as needed, for the performance of his/her functions.

As a designated neutral or impartial dispute resolution practitioner, the successful candidate’s two main functions will be to:  (1) provide assistance in the informal resolution of conflicts and other issues and  (2) monitor trends and emerging issues.

By representing the Organization’s commitment to fundamental fairness, he/she should consider the interests and rights of all parties to a dispute with the aim of achieving fair outcomes.

In particular, he/she will:

1. Assist staff members individually to resolve problems or grievances relating to the terms and conditions of their employment, their working conditions and/or their relations with supervisors and colleagues.

2. Advocate civility and mutual respect as the most productive avenue to successful problem solving and prevent conflicts from escalating.

3. Review a wide variety of problems, such as situations requiring communication or

negotiation help and advise on which policies, procedures or regulations apply in any particular situation.

4. Endeavour to effect reconciliation or ameliorate conditions through fact-finding, discussion and involvement of all interested parties, in problems or grievances brought to his/her attention.

5. Maintain strict confidentiality concerning matters that are brought to his/her attention by not sharing records of people’s names, affiliations or grievances.

6. Maintain close liaison with and/or consult, as required, with the administrative services concerned (e.g. Department of Human Resources Management, Legal Services, the Occupational Health Unit, the Gender Issues Coordination, the supervisor concerned, the Office of the Inspector General and the Staff Association Committee).

7. Initiate the necessary enquiries with a view to advising/recommending to the Director General on possible preventive action, if or when he/she identifies problems liable to impair staff morale.

8. Report to supervisor concerned, and/or to the Director General and/or to the Chairman of the Staff Association Committee in contentious cases when unable to effect reconciliation and if he/she considers it appropriate.

9. Prepare periodic reports on organizational trends and activities identifying patterns or problem areas in the Organization’s policies and practices and recommend revisions or improvements; based on anonymous aggregate data, submit a yearly report on his/her activities to the Director General and to the Staff Association Committee containing statistical information and trends on the number of cases or problems, including an overall assessment of the work done and general comments on any relevant aspect of the Ombudsperson’s functions.

10. Serve as an organizational resource in formulating or modifying policy and procedures, raising issues that may surface as a result of a gap between the stated goals of the Organization and the actual practice; make appropriate recommendations for policies or practices that would reduce or eliminate recurring problems; identify problems or trends that affect the entire Organization and recommend strategies and practices for turning conflict to synergy in the Organization.

11. Design and conduct training programmes for the Organization in dispute and conflict

resolution and other related topics which will create a trusting environment in which conflict is minimized, in collaboration with the Staff Development and Training Unit, and with the Staff Association Committee.

12. Support the work of the Gender Issues Coordination to prevent and address sexual and gender discrimination and harassment and ensure equal treatment and the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work.

Desirable Qualifications:

Education and Experience

a) University degree in Behavioural Sciences, Law, Communications, Public Administration, Social Sciences, other related fields or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience;

b)   ten years work experience in an international oriented organization on mediation and conflict resolution;

c)   experience dealing with discrimination and harassment; field experience an asset.

Competencies

a) Excellent negotiation and mediation skills;

b)   ability to analyze text and situations, give advice, exercise judgment and write objective reports;

c)   a thorough understanding of the principles of conflict prevention and resolution, and experience in implementing conflict resolution programmes along with a demonstrated personal commitment and capacity to embody those principles;

d)   knowledge of the Ombuds function including current and emerging practices in mediation, dispute resolution, and familiarity with international

organizations’ administrative policies and procedures;

e)   outstanding communication skills with individuals at all organizational levels;

f)   excellent networking, organizational knowledge and problem-solving skills;

g)   ability to gather information, analyze it and if necessary, help the inquirer develop appropriate options and actions;

h)   approachability and ability to establish friendly rapport with individuals from a variety of backgrounds and cultures;

i) impartiality, discretion and integrity;

j)   ability to deal fairly, comfortably and responsibly with staff at all levels as well as with potential external inquirers;

k)   demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity and capacity to apply a gender lens to all activities implemented by the Office.

Languages

Fluency in speaking English and at least one of the following: French or Spanish.

Other factors:

The post is at 100% working time. The person selected, if an internal candidate, will be released from his or her normal duties to the extent necessary and the Organization guarantees that the Ombudsperson will not suffer any handicap in his/her career as a consequence of holding this post. The employment conditions are subject to the relevant provisions of IOM’s Staff regulations and Staff Rules.  The person appointed/ selected, if an internal candidate, will have his or her Standard Assignment Length (“SAL”) measured from the date he or she assumes the position.  At the completion of the SAL, the incumbent will be a staff member eligible for Rotation.

If the chosen candidate is not an internal candidate at the time of appointment, the candidate will serve for one five-year term.  Upon expiration of the term of office, the candidate shall not be appointed as an official or employee of the Organization for a period of five years.

NOTES:

1. A written exam will be part of the selection procedure.

2. The tenure of contract of staff members holding a regular contract will remain unchanged.

How to apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications via PRISM, IOM e-Recruitment system, by July 14, 2010  at the latest, referring to this advertisement.

For further information, please refer to: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/pid/165

In order  for an application to be considered valid, IOM only accepts online profiles duly filled in

and submitted with a cover letter not more than one page specifying the motivation for

applications. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.  You can track the progress of your application in your personal application page in the IOM e-recruitment system.

Posting period:

From 05.07.2010 to 14.07.2010

Requisition: VN 2009/70 (O) – Ombudsperson (P5) – Geneva, Switzerland (53338881) Released

Posting: VN 2009/70 (O) – Ombudsperson (P5) – Geneva, Switzerland (53338882) Released

Posting Channel: For Internal Candidates