Field Researcher

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

UNOPS Partner " The Office of Quartet"

The mandate of the Office of the Quartet is to “help the Palestinians as they build the institutions and economy of a viable Palestinian State that is able to take its place as a peaceful and prosperous partner, at peace with Israel and its other neighbors” and more recently to work to enable “significantly greater independence and sovereignty for the Palestinian Authority over its affairs.” More specifically, in the area of rule of law, the office is mandated to “help identify and secure international support in order to address the institutional governance needs of the Palestinian State, focusing as a matter of urgency on the rule of law.”

In June 2015, the OQR transitioned to the Office of the Quartet (OQ), which reports directly to the Quartet Envoys, with a continued focus on the Quartet objectives of Palestinian economic and institutional development and empowerment, which will, in turn, help to advance the Palestinian-Israeli political process towards achieving the two-state solution.

The field researcher will assist the OQ Security adviser in his assessment for strengthening the function of the Palestinian Police in the under-served communities in the West Bank namely Jerusalem suburbs areas that lie outside the Israeli Security Barrier and Area C (The Jordan Valley) in the West Bank with special focus on empowering the ability of the Judicial Police in serving warrants and executing judgments of the Sharia (Family) which routinely impact women and children.

Specifically, the field researcher will assist the OQ Security advisor in:

-Conduct field work to assess Security and Justice delivery to the most vulnerable people in area C (Jordan Valley) and Suburb of Jerusalem, mainly with regards to mixed-families.

-Identifying the challenges facing women and children rights related to Family issues in area C (Jordan Valley) and Suburb of Jerusalem, mainly with regards to mixed-families

-Identifying the issues that cause challenges for women access to Justice in personal affair matters and recommendations for its improvement.

-Analysis and recommendations regarding the ability of the Judicial Police to serve warrants and execute judgements of the family courts in these areas. 

The deliverable shall be a detailed report that will:

A)      Assess the security and justice delivery to most vulnerable people in the Area C (Jordan Valley and Jerusalem Suburbs).

B)      identify the challenges facing women and children rights related to Family issues in area C (Jordan Valley) and Suburb of Jerusalem. This includes conducting meetings with women focus groups.

C)      Identify the issues causing challenges for women access to Justice in personal affair matters and recommendations for its improvement.

Contract type: LICA Specialist

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.