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Senior Program Officer for Legal Advice Bureau(LAB)

Global Rights Partners For Justice, Multi Location

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Multi Location ()
Full Time
304

About Global Rights Partners For Justice

Job Summary

1.•To build the capacity of our local partners to ensure that poor and marginalized populations secure access to the services they need to understand and assert their legal rights in the Family Court in Kabul.
2.To educate family court clients on family law and court procedures, their rights under the law, and additional resources for seeking advice or technical assistance in cases involving disputes arising from family matters, including rights of property and inheritance and rights to be free from domestic violence.
3.To establish a regular mechanism to provide basic legal advice to the applicants of the family court.
4.•To create a referral system for family court clients and other clients who have disputes arising from family relationships to seek the assistance of pro bono legal defenders.
5.To support groups both within government and outside of the government who provide advice according to Shar’ia and national law to family and/or civil court petitioners and to raise the legal awareness of the Afghan population on these issues.

Duties & Responsibilities

1.Provide direct day to day administration and management of the Legal Advice Bureau initiative in order to ensure its proper implementation and effectiveness as per the committed objectives.
2.Provide assistance with programmatic elements other than the Legal Advice Bureau, as needed, including contribution to written materials, brochures and manuals which are necessary outputs of the Program.
3.Assist with multiple projects and help with other staff in the office in case there are needs for assistance in future projects.
4.Represent Global Rights in Afghanistan, including within the national and international NGO communities and with all program stakeholders.
5.Working on Annual Operating Plan (AOP), monthly work plans, program budgets, and periodic progress and donor reports related to the Project
6.Conducting monitoring and evaluation of the project activities regularly
7.Supervise the over-all activities of the project and the Global Rights partners with which we work. Collect weekly and monthly progress reports from the partner organization.
8.•Provide technical assistance, mentoring and guidance to our partner organizations.
9.Organize and/or facilitate trainings, meetings and other events and work with partners to assist them in these matters.
10.Develop training materials with the overall Senior Programs Officer and other colleagues.
11.Perform any other task assigned by the Country Director.

Job Requirements

1.University degree in law or Sharia or equivalent is required.
2.5-7 years of working experience with international or local NGOs or other relevant organizations on legal and human rights fields required.
3.The capacity to work within a collaborative framework with partner groups and within a multidisciplinary, multicultural setting is desirable
4.Fluency in written and oral English, Dari and Pashtu is required.
5.Experience and knowledge of the Afghanistan legal system (family court system), international human rights laws, legal training and mentoring and advocacy in human rights field is required. The ability to represent Global Rights before partner groups and donors is desirable.
6.Strong abilities in project conceptualization, design, planning and report writing is required.

Submission Guideline

Interested applicants should send their CV along with a covering letter to the following address. The deadline for receiving applications is …… August 15, 2010. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Phyllis Cox
Afghanistan Country Director
Phyllisc@globalrights.org
Kabul Office :
Chaharohi Ansari ,Street 3, #200
Shahre-Now ,Kabul
Tel# (+93) 079-753-955

Functional Area

Legal

Countries

Post Date

Jul 31, 2010

Closing Date

Aug 14, 2010

Reference

Global Rights Partners For justice

Number of Vacancies

1

Salary Range

As per NTA salary scale

Years of Experience

2 years

Probation Period

Not Specified

Contract Type

Permanent

Contract Duration

Not Specified

Contract Extensible

true

Gender

Male