Job Description

Title: Community Paralegal (CP)

Company Name: DALIT

Vacancy: 08

Job Location: Khulna (Dumuria)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Higher Secondary

Job Context:
∎ Project Title: Justice and Prison Reform for Promoting Human Rights and Preventing Corruption in Bangladesh
∎ Services required: Community-based dispute resolution for Dalits and other vulnerable groups in Khulna

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Overall Responsibilities:
∎ Provide support to project team and community actors to implement planned activities to achieve the intended project results
∎ Specific tasks include:
∎ Identify and select Restorative Justice Facilitators (RJF) and Community Volunteers (CV) from the community
∎ Organize and facilitate orientation and training courses to develop capacity of RJF, CV and local level actors
∎ Introduce Restorative Justice (RJ) mechanisms at the community level through RJ facilitators with support of CV
∎ Regular communicate, guide & mentoring to RJF to select appropriate cases and observe RJ meeting to provide feedback to RJF
∎ Implement and deliver the project activities coordinating with RJF and CV at ward/union level as per work plan
∎ Organize monthly & bi-monthly coordination meeting between RJF and CV as well as quarterly mixed group meeting between RJF & CV
∎ Organize monthly, bi-monthly coordination meeting with different stakeholders at ward/ union and upazila level
∎ Maintain liaison with local actors and institutions to create scope for diversion, referral, dispute resolution through RJ mechanism and inclusion in social safety net programme
∎ Organize and facilitate courtyard meeting at union/ ward level
∎ Coordinate to organize legal aid clinic for providing legal information and legal assistance among the justice seekers and others
∎ Organize and support to different day observance
∎ Prepare monthly work plan along with progress report and present in coordination meeting
∎ Provide support to District Project Officer (DPO) and Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (MEO) as required
∎ Perform additional tasks as and when assigned by the project

Additional Requirements:
∎ Familiarity with community based work will be an advantage
∎ Appropriate interpersonal skill
∎ Good mobilizer
∎ Self-starter, Proactive, team player
∎ Previous experience with dalit/marginalized communities will be a plus.

Salary:
∎ Tk. 23,333 (monthly) * 10% tax will be deducted as per service rules; after this deduction, income tax will be deducted (if applicable)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Gratuity
∎ Festival Bonus: 1
∎ As per project policy

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 11 Jul 2021

Company Information:
∎ 5 Jul 2021
∎ DALIT
∎ Address : 37/1 Kedarnath Road, Moheshwarpasha, KUET, Daulatpur, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh
∎ Web : www.dalitbd.org
∎ Business : Dalit is a non governmental organization working since 1998 for empowering and mainstreaming dalit and other marginalized communities in the southwest part of Bangladesh. Through its programs and projects, Dalit provides a range of rights-based services to them through a holistic approach. In particular for children/adolescents, it organizes non formal pre-school and tuition education centres, awareness programs on rights/health and hygiene, vocational trainings.

Category: NGO/Development

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Source: bdjobs.com

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