Job Opportunity: Independent Consultant for the Enhancing Stakeholder Awareness and Resources on Hate Crime Victim Support (EStAR) Project
Deadline for applications Sunday 1 November 2020
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is seeking an experienced consultant to undertake the design and drafting of a “Model Guidance on Individual Needs Assessment (INA) for Hate Crime Victims” for the Enhancing Stakeholder Awareness and Resources on Hate Crime Victim Support (EStAR) Project.
ODIHR is the principal institution of the OSCE responsible for the human dimension of security. It is active throughout the OSCE area in the fields of election observation, democratic development, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and rule of law.
The Enhancing Stakeholder Awareness and Resources on Hate Crime Victim Support (EStAR) is a two-year project, implemented between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021, and financed by the European Commission and the German Government. The project is implemented by the OSCE/ODIHR and VBRG – Association of Counseling Centers for Victims of Right-wing, Racist and Anti-Semitic Violence in Germany across 41 OSCE participating States.
The project aims to:
- set up and use a network of hate crime victim specialists from both government and civil society;
- improve the treatment of hate crime victims by criminal justice system bodies;
- improve structures available for supporting victims of hate crimes – particularly through strengthened integration of civil society.
The project has a victim-centered approach, and produces tools for improving protection and services for hate crimes victims and build capacity of service providers.
One of the practical tools to be developed by the EStAR project is a Model Guidance on Individual Needs Assessment (INA) for Hate Crime Victims report (The Report). The Report will be used as a guide to the practical implementation of the requirements outlined in Article 22 of the EU Directive of the 25 October 2012, establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, further referred to as the Victims’ Directive. Article 22 of the Victims’ Directive, entitled “individual assessment of victims to identify specific protection needs” highlights the need for an individual assessment to identify specific needs of each victim.
Find out more information and submit your application here: https://jobs.osce.org/vacancies/independent-consultant-enhancing-stakeholder-awareness-and-resources-hate-crime-victim-0