Project Officer (Associate Legal Officer), Protection, HCMP

BRAC

 

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Summary

• Vacancy: —
• Location: Cox’s Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
• Minimum Salary: Negotiable
• Experience: At least 2 years
• Published: 28 Dec 2024

 

Requirements

Education

• LLB or LLM from any reputed university

Experience

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
  NGO, Development Agency

Additional Requirements

• English competency inwriting skill i.e. experiences of developing/constructing Qualitative and Narrative reports
• Ability to organize and prioritize work and completing tasks, meet deadlines and maintain composure without supervision
• Excellent communication, listening and observation skills, including ability to create trust, support, maintain confidentiality, respect of all ages, background and diversity

Responsibilities & Context

This position will be responsible for to provide response and prevention services to ensure access to justice through direct interventions impacting the lives of women, girls, men and boys, diversified gender and mainstreaming in other response programming and operational areas for ensuring access to justice through providing legal assistance.

Programming:

• Close coordination with respective supervisor to ensure quality, time and effective delivery of legal assistance and awareness to persons of concern (PoCs) as per BRAC and UNHCR guidelines
• Provide legal counseling and advice to PoCs on legal matters/issues
• Subsistence /supporting Legal Officer to provide legal support to PoC at police stations and courts
• Facilitate and conduct legal awareness sessions for refugees in the camps including community, refugee leaders, religious leaders and PSN
• Supporting Legal officer to conduct mediation to resolve disputes among PoCs and follow up on settlement of disputes resolved and maintain mediation files, records and register
• Support Legal Officer for drafting file complaints, FIR, GD and cases at police stations and to the courts
• Conduct visits to detention centers and advocate or intervene with law enforcement agencies including police and courts to release PoCs who are held in detention
• Inform and facilitate with PoCs to appear before court when required
• Organize and facilitate prison visits for refugees to visit their immediate/close family members in prison
• Collaborate with police to rescue refugees who are victims of human trafficking or smuggling including offer legal support to the victims
• Facilitate and conduct training and build capacity of refugee volunteers (paralegals) on legal assistance
• Maintain effective interfaces, coordinate with PoCs, local authorities, protection as well as ensure PoCs access in legal assistance, remedies to their needs and appropriate responses are identified
• Attend coordination, protection meetings, at camp level as required
• Analyze the probable outcomes of cases, using knowledge of legal precedents
• Support legal officer to Evaluate findings and develop strategies and arguments in preparation for presentation of cases
• Gather evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions, by such means as interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case
• In absence of legal officer, associate legal officer can represent clients before government agencies
• Examine  data or record of cases involving refugees to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit
• Maintain communication with concerned CiC, APBn post, other stakeholders, Block-Majhee /Sub-Majhee, Head-Majhee yet these communication priorty will be set by Legal Officer
• Perform all other duties as and when required by the Manager/ Supervisor

Grant Management and Reporting:

• Assist Legal Officer to prepare monthly/quarterly/half-yearly/yearly legal statements/ reports  and work plan as per guideline
• Assist Legal Officer to prepare internal and external reports within agreed deadlines using BRAC and donor formats

Staff Management and Development:

• Maintain open, supportive, and professional relationships with team members, and promote a strong team spirit
• Provide related feedback to paralegal volunteers, develop action plans
• Coach, train, and mentor paralegal volunteers  with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge, address gaps and providing professional development

Coordination:

• Collaborate with Project Manager, Senior Case Management Lawyer and Legal Officer to ensure programming is properly supported and that all activities are conducted according to BRAC Administration, HR, Logistics, Finance and other policies and procedures
• Coordinate with BRAC’s other departments as required to ensure effective and collaborative working relationships
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders including community members, NGOs, government authorities and UN agencies
• Participate in internal coordination meetings as required and liaise with BRAC’s other programs as needed to ensure effective collaboration
• Coordinate and follow-up with partner organizations and other project stakeholders as required

Safeguarding:

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme’s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so

Skills & Expertise

Grant Management

Lawyer

Compensation & Other Benefits

• Mobile bill, Weekly 2 holidays
• Festival Bonus: 2

• Health & Life Insurance
• Health & Wellness Facility
• Paternity/ Maternity leave and
• Others as per Organisation policy

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

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