Project Manager - Legal, Protection, HCMP(Contractual)
Job Description
Title: Project Manager - Legal, Protection, HCMP(Contractual)
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master of Law (LLM) in and Enrolled as an advocate in Bangladesh Bar Council.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 7 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Coordinate all activities of Legal protection Team.
∎ Supervise the Staff lawyers, Legal Officers, paralegals placed in the camps
∎ Design and Develop Capacity Building of Legal staffs through need assessments.
∎ Representing any clients in court if need be.
∎ Design the vision of the legal advocacy program.
∎ Manage complex or high-risk cases
∎ Attending camp coordination meetings and advocacy meetings with external partners
∎ Oversee BRAC's community-based legal protection activities
∎ Manage a multi-sectoral team of staff Lawyers, legal officers, paralegals, panel lawyers.
∎ Liaise, cooperate and create partnerships with other organizations to ensure cohesive service coverage
∎ Conduct regular legal consultations with refugee community to ensure feedback on services
∎ Ensure ongoing monitoring and evaluation of projects on site
∎ Manage budget and expenses of Legal Protection activities
∎ Work with donors to create ongoing partnerships
∎ Integrate gender-mainstreaming principles throughout legal protection activities
∎ Train BRAC team on legal Protection principles, SGBV principles, and service provision and refugee rights.
∎ Provide technical support to the Legal Protection team to ensure a high standard of implementation of strategy and activities
∎ Develop proposals, budgets, result frameworks for the project implementation
∎ Prepare periodic reports (narrative and quantitative) for donors, government and organization
∎ Attend visitor from inside and outside BRAC as suggested by Senior Management
∎ Maintain regular communication with probable donor for creating further funding opportunities
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme's 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.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum Seven years of experience in relevant sectors including Three years working experience in NGO/INGO preferred.
∎ Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of theories, concepts and approaches relevant to the International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, National Laws, SGBV context.
∎ Good Knowledge of Project Planning and implementation.
∎ Proven skills and competencies to work as a team lead.
∎ Knowledge on managing Budget and developing PPA
∎ English: fluency in the language, expected to work independently using the language required, to prepare a variety of written communications (correspondence, reports, working papers, etc.), to participate actively in meetings and in work related discussions.
∎ Teamwork spirit and community mobilization skills
∎ Excellent communication and articulation skills, awareness of socio-economic, cultural and political sensitivities.
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
Application Deadline: 3 Jul 2020
Company Information:
∎ 27 Jun 2020
∎ BRAC
∎ Address : BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka:1212
∎ Web : www.brac.net
∎ Business : BRAC’s vision is a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential. The organisation was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 and acts as a catalyst, creating opportunities for people to transform their lives. BRAC believes in integrity, inclusiveness, effectiveness, and innovation in all areas of work. BRAC uses an integrated model to change systems of inequity, through social development programmes, humanitarian response, social enterprises, socially responsible investments and a university. It operates in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings in 12 countries across Asia and Africa.
BRAC is a global leader in developing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes, and has been ranked the #1 NGO in the world for the last five years consecutively by NGO Advisor.
Category: NGO/Development
