Legal Assistant

Main legal issues to be covered: -          Family Law -          Legal identity including obtaining civil documentation necessary to access rights and services (birth registration and marriage registration) -          Citizenship and statelessness issues related to displacement   Exceptionally, the team may engage in other thematic areas based on needs and external requests.   Generic Duties: Conduct basic interviews with beneficiaries in order to assess legal and urgent protection need; provide legal information to beneficiaries on main legal issues encountered; plan and facilitate awareness sessions on different legal topics; be involved in the office organization of awareness sessions or any other topic to be decided according to the need, in close coordination with the legal team; respect deadline for the delivering of weekly and monthly reports and any kind of urgent reporting to the Legal Protection Officer; any other task not listed here but necessary to the project and activities; available to work extra hours and available at the weekend for emergency cases. attend meetings and workshop/training as requested by the Legal Consultant and the Legal Protection officer;   Specific Duties: Compiling the legal database and sharing it with the Legal Protection Officer and the Protection Manager on a weekly basis; drafting with legal consults risk analysis for cases to be considered for court representation and send them at a later time to the Legal Protection Officer;    proving inputs on legal assistance activities, needs, gaps and trends for internal and donor reporting purposes; participating with the Legal Protection Officer and/or the Protection Manager to relevant meetings and Inter-Agency working groups; conducting info sharing sessions and individual counselling for beneficiaries on legal topics; conducting awareness sessions for beneficiaries on legal topics contribute to the draft of weekly “liquidity plans” to be sent to the Legal Protection Officer.