Sr Legal Officer Odesa

Legal

Overview

Oversee legal activities and provide legal assistance in Ukraine.

You have:

• Bilingual in Ukrainian and Russian and excellent verbal and writing skills in English
• Valid Attorney’s License (registered at the Bar Association)
• Previous experience in Legal information, counselling and assistance, preferably with a NGO
• Experience facilitating group activities, trainings and workshops and mentoring others
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and in written
• Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients/beneficiaries
• Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting
• High degree of flexibility and strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail
• Computer literate, including Microsoft Word and Excel

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

Sr Legal officer

Duty station: Odesa

Key working relationships: Position Reports to: PRoL Manager Position directly supervises: Legal officers, legal incentive workers Internal collaborations within IRC: Sr Protection Monitoring and Information officers, Case Manager, Community Mobilizers, Caseworkers, Project Support Officer External collaborations to IRC: Legal actors, Legal PWG, Free Legal Aid Center staff, Protection and information services actors, organizations and agencies

Job Overview/Summary: The Sr legal officer oversees all IRC legal activities in Odesa and Mykolaiv oblast, meaning the legal information, counselling and assistance activities, and relationship with the legal authorities. The Senior Legal Officer will be based at IRC’s office in Odesa, under supervision of the Protection and Rule of Law Manager. The Senior Legal Officer will serve as key person to implement legal assistance activities along the displacement routes and provide evidence base to inform needs of affected population for program adjustment and advocacy.

Specifically, the Sr legal officer will be responsible for:

Oversee all legal activities - Support the PRoL Manager and local partners to develop and implement legal information, counselling and assistance activities. - ensure continuous update of the service map in Odesa and Mykolaiv oblast and surrounding oblasts on legal actors and services - ensure referrals are made and received in a safe way and according to the SOPs, and ensure referrals received are followed-up and that the referral tracker is updated. - produce clear legal content on legal information and procedures, to be distributed to war-affected people. - Work closely with the Protection Manager and the MEAL team to create and update reporting tools - Support the PRoL Manager in data analysis related to legal needs - constantly look for contacts within authorities and key humanitarian stakeholders and update the contact trackers - Contribute to the weekly movement plans for centers and shelters’ assessments, and report on legal activities on a weekly basis. - Supports PRoL Manager to develop program report related to donor requirement and program requirement. - Monitor spending related to activities are on track and timely inform PRoL Management for budget adjustment need.

2. Team management - Directly supervise and build the capacities of 2 legal officers in Odesa, and legal incentive workers ensure they understand their role and responsibilities, and implement the activities according to the overall program workplan and weekly movement plans - Provide technical support to the legal officers and legal incentive workers on technical legal questions

3. Legal research - In collaboration with the PRoL manager and the Sr Protection Monitoring and information officer, and based on Protection Monitoring and personal research, constantly research the needs in term of legal assistance for people in Ukraine. - support the PRoL Manager in writing regular reports on law updates - participate to the Legal Working Group and the HLP sub-working group at the Cluster level

Requirements: Language: Bilingual in Ukrainian and Russian and excellent verbal and writing skills in English Valid Attorney’s License (registered at the Bar Association) Previous experience in Legal information, counselling and assistance, preferably with a NGO Experience facilitating group activities, trainings and workshops and mentoring others Excellent communication skills both verbal and in written Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients/beneficiaries Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting High degree of flexibility and strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail Computer literate, including Microsoft Word and Excel

Professional Standards The International Rescue Committee is determined to protect the people it serves and staff from all kinds of harm, including sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment. It is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe. IRC builds diverse and inclusive teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients. IRC workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces its safeguarding policies to protect adult and child clients from any form of exploitation and abuse, including sexual exploitation and abuse, and its staff from sexual harassment and violence. Where misconduct is alleged, IRC follows a Zero tolerance approach and takes all necessary actions and corrective measures. IRC investigation unit comprises of experts and trained investigators that ensures professional survivor- centered investigations are conducted if allegations of safeguarding violations are reported through the safe and accessible reporting channels that IRC makes available to its staff, partners, and clients. These commitments are set out in IRC’s Safeguarding Policies, accessible in English and in Ukrainian language via this link: https://rescue.box.com/v/irc-safeguarding-policies. IRC is an active member of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) set- up in Ukraine.

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Added 2 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org