PR and Outreach Specialist - Tashkent

Project Title/Department: Rule of Law Partnership in Uzbekistan (ROL) Project/Good Governance Unit

Duty station: Tashkent

Work status (full time / part time): Full time

The overall goal of the project is competence and impartiality in judicial system. Project will provide technical assistance to the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan to enhance public access and trust, achieve greater alignment with international standards of integrity and rule of law in the civil courts. In addition, transparency of economic disputes will be increased in partnership with the Higher Economic Court. Law enforcement mechanisms will be improved to ensure comprehensive approach to enhancing accessibility of justice for citizens in partnership with the Judicial Department of the Ministry of Justice. To ensure sustainability, new court administration procedures and amendments to procedural legislation will be introduced into Civil Procedure Code and Economic Procedure Code and incorporated in the curriculum and resource materials of both Lawyer Training Center and Law University.

The ROL project will identify concrete challenges and implement corresponding activities that can measurably improve judicial functionality. Through agreed upon interventions, this project will help strengthen judicial independence and accountability, a critical step towards improving the rule of law in Uzbekistan and ensuring the nations’ further progress towards a democratic society. The project will work on improving services, making citizens feel invested in the court system and increasing citizen access to the courts (civil and economic). This will be achieved through improving judicial system performance, enhancing the knowledge and technical skills of judges, lawyers and court personnel and increasing responsiveness to citizen feedback regarding the judicial process.

The ROL project has 3 main objectives:

1)         Increasing court responsiveness to citizen feedback on civil justice administration through development of institutional mechanisms for public awareness raising;

2)         Enhancing the knowledge and technical skills of judges, lawyers and court personnel;

3)         Improving court administration systems and performance.

While the project envisions the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan as its primary point of contact and main national implementing partner, it will also closely collaborate with the Research Centre under the Supreme Court; the Judicial Department under the MOJ; the MOJ Lawyer Training Centre; the Tashkent State University of Law; the Higher Economic Court; the Legal Problems Research Centre and other justice sector reform champions which possess the political will to implement reforms. Through working with a number of partners, the project can ensure that maximum impact is achieved, as well as a strategic, coordinated and holistic approach to increasing public access to and trust in Uzbekistan’s judicial system. The approach will not only include national partners, but will also cooperate with international organizations and donors, to provide for a coordinated response to national development needs. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the project will closely work with USAID in accordance with the Cooperative Agreement No.AID-176-IO-14-00001.

Under direct supervision of the Project Manager and overall guidance of the Head of Good Governance Unit, the PR and Outreach Specialist will be responsible for the satisfactory achievement of the entrusted tasks, as described below:

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