Legal Analyst in Systems Business Management (Axis 6)

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in approximately 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequality and exclusion. The program helps countries to developing policies, leadership skills, partnership skills, institutional capacities, and to building resilience to sustainable development results.

UNDP implements several projects in different areas, offering its partners technical, operational and management assistance through access to methodologies, specialized knowledge, specialized advice and a wide international network of technical cooperation.

To contribute to human development, poverty reduction and the country’s growth in priority areas, UNDP Brazil has a constant mission to align its services with the needs of a dynamic, multifaceted and diverse country. The projects are carried out in partnership with the Brazilian government, international financial institutions, the private sector and civil society.

The project “Strengthening and monitoring innovation actions and improvement of the penal and socio-educational systems, in line with national and international human rights principles and guidelines” aims to work on the development of innovative methodologies and actions with a focus on reestablishing regular and adequate functioning of the prison and socio-educational system and produce subsidies to strengthen the monitoring and inspection of official interventions in these systems. In particular, The project works to provide the National Council of Justice (CNJ) with tools to: (i) promote the development of mandates and capabilities (constitutional, conventional and legal) of the Judiciary to overcome bottlenecks and obstacles that hinder individual performance and better collective action by magistrates in the criminal and socio-educational systems, notably to protect the more vulnerable populations, and (ii) action to enable full and complete compliance with the decision (on the merits) handed down by the Federal Supreme Court in the Arguição de Descumprimento de Preceito Fundamental (ADPF) 347, which consolidated the understanding regarding the existence of an unconstitutional state of affairs in Brazilian prisons and determined the agreement and monitoring of a national plan and state and district plans aimed at overcoming a situation of structural disarray and massive and systematic violation of fundamental rights, which prevents the implementation of the grammar and programs of principles present in the Federal Constitution, in the International Human Rights Treaties and in ordinary Legislation.

To achieve these objectives, the project is organized into 6 axes, which correspond to the intermediate results expected for the project:
1 – Implementation, strengthening and monitoring/evaluation of actions that guarantee the regular functioning of the penal system
2 – Implementation, strengthening and monitoring/evaluation of actions that guarantee the regular functioning of the socio-educational system
3 – Improvement and quantitative and qualitative increase in the collection and production of data from the penal and socio-educational systems,
4 – Improvement, strengthening and monitoring of care strategies for the most vulnerable populations in interface with the penal and socio-educational systems
5 – Technical assistance to the CNJ for advocacy with 1st and 2nd degree magistracy, through the creation of awareness and communication channels, dissemination of content, education, training, interaction strategies, dialogue and other actions that allow better instrumentalization of the information of the performance options of Brazilian judges, enabling them to act more comprehensively towards the population and its inequalities
6 – Efficient management and knowledge management of the project carried out.

The assignment is part of Axis 6, responsible for providing legal advice to the Fazendo Justiça Program and the Department of Monitoring and Oversight of the Prison System and the System of Execution of Socio-Educational Measures of the National Justice Council (DMF/CNJ) in the governance and business management of the systems maintained by the agency, such as the Unified Electronic Execution System (SEEU) and the National Registry of Criminal Measures and Imprisonments (BNMP 3.0).

Under the oversight of the general coordinator, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for providing legal advice to the Fazendo Justiça Program and the DMF/CNJ in the formulation and implementation of governance and business management of the systems maintained by the agency. The actions are aimed at contributing to a coordinated strategy for the implementation of penal and socio-educational policies nationwide, in collaboration with other Axes and cross-cutting actions, focused on guaranteeing rights, in line with domestic legislation, decisions of International Courts, and best national and international practices in the fields of law and information technology.

To achieve this objective, the following indicative activities are planned:

• Advise the Fazendo Justiça Program and DMF/CNJ in the analysis of legal issues related to computerized systems, including business analysis of requirements and functionalities, user queries, granting access to systems, and data sharing, among others.
• Support the management of various activities related to the management, governance, and implementation of computerized systems for the DMF/CNJ.
• Record and monitor the actions of Axis 6, based on the definition of established goals and priority deliverables, and the management strategies and tracking tools defined by UNDP and CNJ.
• Organize and participate in meetings representing the team and providing all necessary technical and administrative support.
• Provide legal advice to the Program in other activities, as requested by the designated supervisor.
• Perform other tasks, as requested by the designated supervisor.