Legal Assistant (2 vacancies)

Job Purpose:

The Legal Assistant is responsible for providing legal information, and counseling to vulnerable persons, in accordance with INTERSOS’ mandate, priorities and donor agreements. The Legal assistant directly reports to the INTERSOS Protection Officer for Legal Assistance.

Main legal issues to be covered:

• Family Law
• Gender-Based Violence and Child Protection
• 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 based on needs and external requests.

Generic Duties:

1. Conduct basic interviews with refugees in order to assess legal and urgent protection needs.
2. Provide legal information to beneficiaries on main legal issues encountered.
3. Plan and facilitate awareness sessions for the Refugees community on different legal topics.
4. 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 Protection Officer for Legal Assistance.
5. Attend meetings and workshop/training as requested by the Protection Officer or Protection Manager.
6. Respect deadline for the delivering of weekly and monthly reports and any kind of urgent reporting to the Project Manager or Protection Officer.
7. Any other task not listed here but necessary to the project and activities.
8. Available to work extra hours and available at the weekend for emergency cases.

Competencies:  (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)

Professional Competencies:

• Previous experience in humanitarian Work (working on refugee related legal problems)
• Prior experience in working with governmental authorities is added value;
• Familiarity with international protection and human rights legal standards;
• Knowledge on how to communicate with vulnerable population groups, such as women, children, youth, elderly, disable and refugees
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of local communities and customary rules;
• Excellent analysis and reporting;
• Computer/IT literacy (OS Windows/Linux, MS Office, Internet etc.);
• Driving License

Behavioral competencies:

• Excellent communication and organization;
• 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;