Senior Legal advisor

Senior Legal Advisor SCOPE OF WORK

The Senior Legal Advisor Provide oversight of compliance of LCN Partners with agreed technical guidelines, and advise them accordingly.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide assistance to local professional legal associations and NGOs to improve their capacity to provide legal services, develop regional continuing legal education, and improve Organizational development.
• Assist with regional policy advocacy initiatives, and help the formal justice sector improve its Capacity to make the public aware of legal services available.
• Work to improve target NGO’s capacity and effectiveness by overseeing development of Program through which senior lawyers and legal professionals assist the NGO’s.
• Assist in organizing and implementing technical activities, training events, and other activities as defined by the work plan to meet strategic programmatic objectives.
• Working with other team members to develop and carry out customized Fining and mentoring for NGO legal services provider.
• Conduct scheduled site visits to partner NGOs to monitor and assess quality of implementation
• Advise on the correct documentation and processing of legal cases
• Contribute to program success stories and provide input for success stories to communication Specialist including photographs when possible.
• Fulfill other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential qualifications, skills and experience:

• Bachelor degree in Law
• Previous experience of UNHCR Protection Cluster.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Understanding of policy and regulations in related fields
• Proven ability to operate in a team environment liaising with a diverse team.
• Ability to manage a varied workload and prioritize tasks, work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Experience of using own initiative and problem-solving attitude.
• Acceptable English language (Speaking, reading and writing).

interested candidates should forward the (  c. v )  to the following Email  address [email protected] deadline date   7 May 2024