Lawyer/Legal Consultant - North (3 Vacancies)

Job Purpose:

The Legal consultant/Lawyer is responsible for providing legal information, counseling, assistance and representation to vulnerable persons in accordance with INTERSOS’ mandate, priorities and donor agreements.

Generic Duties:

1. Conduct basic interviews with beneficiaries in order to assess legal and urgent protection needs of the IC.
2. When applicable provide legal assistance to people who are in need of urgent and legal protection; services include legal advice and legal representation in court
3. Undertake follow-up visits to clients in very specific cases.
4. Attend meetings and workshop/training as requested by the Project Manager and Protection Coordinator.
5. Inform the Protection Officer for Legal Assistance of the individual progressive legal cases conditions on a weekly basis.
6. Plan, develop and conduct legal awareness sessions for the refugee community and host community. Write report of the awareness sessions in collaboration with a Legal Assistant
7. Be involved in the office organization of awareness sessions or any other topic to be decided according to the need.
8. Ensure steer and capacity building for the legal assistant ensuring the assistant can work independently in conducting interviews, providing basic counseling and support mediations.
9. Respect deadline for the delivering of weekly and monthly reports and any kind of urgent reporting to the Protection Officer.
10. Any other task not listed here but necessary to the project and activities.
11. Available to work extra hours and available at the weekend for emergency cases.

Specific Duties:

(Can be adapted to the particularities of the job location and the requirement of the project. This section shall be revised whenever a new employee is hired).

Project component:

INTERSOS is providing protection monitoring and referrals to different services based on the beneficiary’s need. One of the internal protection services provided internally is legal assistance, when relevant. This assistance can include legal awareness, counseling and advice, support in dealing with legal procedures, legal representation in court, and mediation between the two parties or parties indirectly involved where needed. The lawyer will also be requested to provide counseling support and advice to the INTERSOS team in dealing with particular legal challenges related to Child Protection and support to survivors of SGBV in Lebanon. The lawyer will also be providing, with the National Protection Officer for Legal Assistance and the Legal Assistant, training for Mukthars, Noufus, Judges, other authorities and partners on the below mentioned topics.

Main legal issues to be covered by the legal consultant:

• Family Law (including Family Violence)
• Child Protection Legal Framework (including dispute of custody)
• Legal identity including obtaining civil documentation necessary to access rights and services (birth registration, marriage registration)
• Citizenship and statelessness issues related to displacement
• House Land and Property

Competencies:  (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)

Professional Competencies:

• Relevant professional experience, registered at Lebanese bar association and not less than three (3) years (practicing civil law and family law);
• Prior experience in working with or coordinating with other international humanitarian organizations or governmental authorities;
• Prior experience with UNHCR’s persons of concern;
• Familiarity with international protection and human rights legal standards;
• Familiarity and experience with Family Law
• Experience working with GBV survivors is an asset
• Knowledge on how to communicate with children and on advocating for special measures to be taken by judiciary authorities when survivors are children
• Excellent analysis and reporting;
• Computer/IT literacy (OS Windows/Linux, MS Office, Internet etc.);
• Driving License

Behavioural competencies:

• Excellent communication and organization;
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of local communities and customary rules;
• Punctuality and respect for applicable rules and procedures;
• Strongly objective and impartial reasoning;
• Ethical and transparent decision-making;
• Independence, i.e. conducting tasks with minimal supervision, and stress resilience;
• Self-motivation, goal/result-orientation and team work;