• Country: Kharkiv, Ukraine
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: DRC
• Gender: Both 
• Deadline: 2024-01-09

Main responsibilities

Management and Implementation:

• Lead and line manage the legal team including people planning, leave planning, recruitment process, performance and discipline, well-being and skills development.
• Ensure effective planning and quality implementation of the sector/support activities
• Provide technical support and inputs to the legal team, and keep up to date about legal developments and changes to the relevant laws and legal frameworks in Ukraine
• Identifying advocacy issues based on analysis of current legislation and legal issues of beneficiaries and stakeholders
• Lead on drafting advocacy materials such as briefing notes, advocacy letters
• Lead on developing contextual and needs analysis as well as recommendations/feedback relevant to developing new programmatic avenues and innovative approaches
• Facilitate and follow up incoming and outgoing protection referral cases
• Initiate the team involvement to the performing new project activities for obtaining additional skills and knowledge
• Provide high quality one-on-one legal counseling to conflict-affected population on their legal rights and remedies in the displacement context
• Organize and facilitate community-level group awareness-raising programs on recent legal developments addressing the information and legal needs of IDPs and conflict-affected populations
• Provide administrative and other para-legal assistance to enable IDP and conflict-affected population to access welfare benefits, livelihood opportunities and government and non-government benefits and privileges
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the Protection Manager relevant to the achievement of protection

Programming and Operations:

• Ensure efficient and effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan
• Participate in preparing regular program reports and support in the development of proposals and budgets for donors if needed
• Collaborate with relevant internal and external technical experts on sector relevant issues
• Represent DRC at external meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings and events.
• Contribute contextual and needs analysis as well as recommendations/feedback relevant to developing new programmatic avenues and innovative approaches.
• Collaborate with MEAL staff to monitor and evaluate projects and develop and apply lessons learnt
• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas
• Initiate procurements and ensure their execution

Required experience and competencies

• University masters degree in Law, and holds a license to practice law
• Minimum 3 years of management experience, preferably in the field of humanitarian response for an INGO
• Experience providing legal services to conflict affected people in Ukraine, including IDPs
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with vulnerable individuals, staff members, and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple responsibilities.
• Strong sense of personal integrity and understanding of confidentiality and ethics.
• Excellent skill in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Full professional proficiency Russian and Ukrainian
• Written and spoken English is mandatory

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