Overview
Provide independent peer review, quality assurance, and substantive editorial input to strengthen electoral research documents prior to validation and publication.
Key Responsibilities
- Review a set of research and analytical documents (approx. 40 pages per document).
- Assess documents for technical quality, structure, clarity, and policy relevance.
- Provide detailed written comments, track changes, and recommendations for improvement.
- Identify gaps, redundancies, and areas requiring clarification or strengthening.
- Support the UNDP team in refining and revising sections following review.
- Ensure documents meet UNDP publication-quality standards.
- Continuously communicate with PEAP Programme Team on progress.
Required Experience
- Previous experience in law, elections or democratic governance.
- Previous experience in research on law, elections or democratic governance is preferred.
- Previous experience in gender and/or marginalized populations is preferred.
- Strong research and analytical skills.
- Excellent writing and editing skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Previous experience in reviewing research documents is desirable.
- Background knowledge and working experience in the Pacific Islands is desirable.
Qualifications
A degree in a political science, law, public policy, development studies, governance, gender studies, or related field is considered an asset.
