Job Responsibilities

•  Ensure compliance with NRC policies, guidelines, standards and donor requirements
•  Ensure adherence to ICLA strategy, tools, handbooks, guidelines and standards
•  Implement legal activities according to established plan of action
•  Promote and share ideas for technical improvement and further program development
•  Ensure that projects target the most vulnerable people, and explore and assess new and better ways to assist
•  Contribute to the identification of legal protection needs to inform programming and advocacy
• Conduct outreach activities to identify key locations for legal aid delivery
• Organize and conduct individual / group information sessions
• Provide individual and tailored legal counselling
• Provide legal assistance and representation for selected cases, according to ICLA criteria
• Ensure effective and appropriate legal case management and quality of legal aid provision
• Provide services in person or through remote modalities
• Conduct housing, land and property due diligence activities in close coordination with the NRC Shelter programme
• Ensure safe identification and referral of persons in need of a specific service
• Develop informational, educational and training materials on legal protection issues
• Prepare, organize and facilitate capacity-building activities
• Participate in needs assessments and feasibility studies, conduct analysis of legal protection trends and propose adaptation of the response
• Conduct legal research and analysis
• Provide inputs to legal and advocacy documents (i.e briefing notes, case studies)
• Contribute to the development of tools and procedures
• Contribute to strengthening the local capacities of partners and key stakeholders
• Coordinate activities with other NRC programmes
• Coordinate activities with local authorities, NGOs, UN Agencies and other actors regarding legal aid provision
• Conduct data entry and proper filing of documents related to ICLA activities (i.e project participants` documents, intake forms and other tools) according to NRC internal procedures
• Assist with administrative/logistics/finance tasks whenever required
• Prepare weekly and monthly plans and reports, upon agreement with the line manager
• Perform any other tasks as requested by ICLA Project Coordinator