Legal Advisor
Job Description
Title: Legal Advisor
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar, Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in law or equivalent
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ As a Legal Advisor, you will be responsible for provide legal counselling and legal assist to CP, GBV client and protection cases with respect of survivor`s center approach and support cases who would like to pursue legally action with collaborate UNHCR protection representative.
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∎ Reporting to: GBV Coordinator
∎ Department: Protection
∎ Expected Start Date: January 1, 2020.
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide legal counselling and legal assist to CP, GBV client and protection cases whom referred from RI case management department, community centres and other referring organization from camp 4, camp 26 and 27.
∎ Support client who requested to pursue legally action with collaborate UNHCR protection representative
∎ Provide training/ workshop IHL and national legislation to RI staffs and other agency if required
∎ Produces and up-dates legal fact-sheets
∎ Helps to elaborate the key messages on IHL and participates in seminars, workshops and training courses when requested.
∎ Work closely with GBV coordinator, RI case managements department and Protection Program Manager, and produce monthly report or as requirement
∎ Coordinate with protection program colleagues and other RI program, HR, finance and operation.
∎ Participate with program reporting as required by supervisor and Protection Program Manager
∎ Any other responsibilities as requested by supervisor
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Familiar with CP, GBV, protection case management and experience working
∎ refugee
∎ Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of IHL and of national legislation
∎ Must adhere to GBV/CP Core Guiding Principles and international humanitarian principles and standards for GBViE/ CPiE
∎ Cultural awareness and sensitivity, prior experience in Rohingya camps is preferable
∎ Strong background and skills in facilitating trainings, coaching and mentoring others
∎ Competency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word and Excel
∎ Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively in written and spoken English and Chittaginian (preferable)
∎ Enthusiasm to learn
∎ Optimistic and friendly
∎ Flexibility
∎ Excellent communication skill in Rohinya or Chittagonian and Bengali
∎ Good command in English, an asset
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Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Application Deadline: December 19, 2019
Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.
Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.
Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org
Category: NGO/Development
