Job Description

Title: Paralegal Lawyer/ SPO - Legal Aid Support/Senior Counsellor

Company Name: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters/Bachelor's degree in Law/Psychology Or on any relevant discipline from a public/private university.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Based in: Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
∎ Reporting to: Project Manager, Maitree Project
∎ Project Duration: August 2022 to 31 January 2023.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Develop overall planning on project based protection, GBV and providing support to the affected communities, based on their need and project design.
∎ Develop SOP/Guidelines/ module/manual / ICE-BCC materials on protection, GBV.
∎ Coordinate with project based protection GBV, team lead to provide technical support to the Protection GBV Operations team to ensure a high standard of implementation of strategy and activities.
∎ Provide individual or group psychological support such as counselling and support to Host and Rohingya women and adolescent girls referred by the team in line with case plan objectives.
∎ She must provide group psychological case management, counselling, mediation, referral services, legal support for project participants.
∎ She have to provide basic level counselling to those that have lost family members and to those that are facing increased level of distress.
∎ Closely monitor and document the progress of mediation, Salish and cases referred.
∎ Refer cases and liaise with relevant sectorial focal in the assigned camp and host based project working areas.
∎ Develop technical reports on specific cases identified during the individual psychological support sessions.
∎ Assist to organize Protection GBV Team, legal aid team, Lead in proposal development for Protection.
∎ Ensure safeguarding SOP/Guidelines and QA guidelines are being followed in the field.
∎ Monitor quality of field performance on a regular basis and Coordinate feedback meetings with the team.
∎ Flag any potential issues in implementation identified by the team to the Protection GBV Team Lead
∎ She/he has to conduct awareness session for promotion of Social Cohesion, peach building, GBV Prevention to women group.
∎ Provides input developing content on GBV issue based training for host and camp based project participants.
∎ Respect confidentiality of information without sharing it with any other party, also ensure that information obtained during meetings is dealt with confidentially.
∎ Share weekly/bi-weekly update of support/ counselling/ mediation support provided to participants with project team.
∎ Coordination and communication with GBV sub-sector, related government department, UN agencies, like minded INGO's, NGOs.
∎ Participate GBV coordination meeting, workshop, training regularly.
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programmes goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
∎ Any other responsibilities given by supervisor, ASK senior Management

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 42 years
∎ At least 5 year(s) experience in working with Protection, GBV sector

Salary: Tk. 60000 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Staff will also be entitled the Festival Bonus, Leave benefit as per HR Policy of the organization.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 31 Aug 2022

Company Information:
∎ 24 Aug 2022
∎ Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)
∎ Business : Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) was established in 1986 as a national legal aid and human rights organization. Initially its work was limited to providing free legal services to the disempowered particularly women, working children and workers in Dhaka city. But over the last thirty three years, ASK has evolved a more comprehensive approach to the promotion, protection and prevention in the area of legal and human rights. ASK’s strategies to promote human rights
awareness and community activism; offer legal aid through mediation and litigation while survivors are given psycho-social counseling; investigations into human rights violations and their documentation are supplemented by research which together lead to media campaigns to defend human rights, and public interest litigation for law and policy reform.

For more information about ASK and what we do visit our website at www.askbd.org

Category: Law/Legal

: Interested candidates are requested to send their CV along with a cover letter addressing Executive Director of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), 2/16, Block - B, Lalmatia, Dhaka, through email.Reference: 2 (Two) ReferencesOnly short-listed candidates will be called for interview.

Source: bdjobs.com

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