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Deputy Technical Coordinator – Juvenile Justice System

UNDPBrasília, Brazil
Category | Grade:Professional | NPSA-8Deadline:20 Aug 2026Job ID:36025Posted on:5 Aug 2026
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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