Lawyer

JWF is implementing a project in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), within the Framework of Promoting Gender Responsive and Inclusive Politics and Economy in the MENA Region – WoMENA.

 The project aims to empower women and girls in Lebanon by fostering their active participation in political and economic spheres within a safe, inclusive, and gender-responsive and transformative community through strengthening vulnerable beneficiaries accessing social cohesion and protection services and supporting companies, NGO’s, women’s and gender networks to implement innovative approaches to strengthen women’s participation.

Justice Without Frontiers is seeking to hire a Lawyer to provide legal consultations for women of sexual and gender-based violence, cyberbullying as well legal economic support to the new or ongoing starts up. Consultation will be provided during awareness sessions, hotline, social media platform

The Consultant shall perform the following tasks:

- Provide legal consultations and support to the new or ongoing starts up led by women. 

- Provide legal consultations for women and children victims of SGBV and Cyberbullying.

- Develop strategic recommendations for policy changes, program improvements, and new initiatives to support women’s economic empowerment.

1. Skills and Experience required:

- Bachelor’s degree in law

• - Registered at Beirut or Tripoli Bar Association
• -Previous 5 years of experience in NGOs or human rights field
• - Excellent understanding of the Lebanese laws related to protection, Labor law, social security law, family laws…
• - Good understanding of the Lebanese social and cultural contexts especially in the area of implementation