Legal Assistant

Main legal issues to be covered: -          Housing, land and property (HLP) rights -          Legal identity including obtaining civil documentation necessary to access rights and services (birth registration, marriage registration) -          Citizenship and statelessness issues related to displacement Exceptionally, the team may engage in other thematic areas related to family law including dispute of custody, divorce procedures, which are issues strictly related to the case management as well.   Responsibilities/duties for the legal assistant: Conduct basic interviews with refugees in order to assess legal and urgent protection needs of the IC. Provide individual and/or family legal information to beneficiaries, in order to orient them and make them aware about the legal procedures available and most suitable for each case. Undertake follow-up visits to IC in very specific cases. Attend meetings and workshop/training as requested by the Legal Consultant and Protection Officer. Plan, develop and conduct legal awareness sessions for the Refugees community and host community. Write report of the awareness sessions. 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 Consultant. Respect deadline for the delivering of weekly and monthly reports and any kind of urgent reporting to the Legal Consultant and 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.