Deputy Technical Coordinator – Juvenile Justice System
Category | Grade:Professional | NPSA-8Deadline:20 Aug 2026Job ID:36025Posted on:5 Aug 2026
Overview
Supports technical coordination of a UNDP–Brazilian judiciary project strengthening the juvenile justice and socio-educational system. The coordinator plans and monitors activities, guides consultants, tracks contracts and deliverables, develops technical documents and supports rights-based reform and training.
Department: Making Justice Programme, Axis 2
Languages
Required: Portuguese
Desired: English
Minimum Experience
No minimum listed
Estimated Salary
Not available
Responsibilities
- Support management and implementation of the project’s juvenile-justice workstream
- Prepare technical inputs for progress reports and management instruments
- Guide technical consultants and draft terms of reference
- Develop documents needed to implement workstream activities
- Monitor consultancies, contracts, milestones, schedules and product quality
- Conduct missions, meetings, training and qualitative monitoring activities
- Support strategic planning and continuity of justice-system actions
- Coordinate closely with the National Council of Justice and UNDP teams
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in law, public management, administration, economics, social sciences, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, social work, philosophy or a related field, or a relevant bachelor’s degree with two years of qualifying experience
- With an advanced degree no prior experience is required; with a bachelor’s degree at least two years of professional or academic experience in justice, human rights, penal systems, public management or related fields
- Fluency in Portuguese
Skills
Juvenile JusticeHuman Rights ProgrammingProject CoordinationTechnical AdvisoryContract MonitoringStrategic PlanningTraining DesignPolicy AnalysisReport Writing
Tools
Project Management ToolsMicrosoft Office Suite
Additional info
Not available