The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

We work in crises across more than 30 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights.

NORCAP is a global provider of expertise that contributes to solving challenges in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors. Our ultimate goal is to strengthen the resilience, and protect the lives, rights and livelihoods of vulnerable people and communities

NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

NRC Ukraine is looking for an ICLA Technical Officer (Lawyer) to join our dynamic and friendly team in Kurakhove, Ukraine.

The role of ICLA technical officer is to deliver high quality information, counselling and legal assistance services within delegated thematic and geographical portfolio.

Job description:

• Ensure compliance with NRC policies, guidelines, standards and donor requirements
• Ensure compliance with ICLA strategy, tools, handbooks, guidelines and standards
• ICLA specific technical responsibility for the implementation, quality control, monitoring, project documentation and tracking of financial expenditures for technical activities of ICLA projects
• Provide specific technical support and capacity building towards project staff
• Provide specific technical analysis and feedback to NRC representatives in coordination forums
• Assess, promote and document ideas for technical improvement and further program development options
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist
• Contribute to specific protection risks and needs analyses
• Contribute to designing of protection response to identified risks and needs
• Facilitate provision of basic information about the rights and entitlements of beneficiaries
• Facilitate individual and group legal counselling from the office(s) and during mobiles visits
• Support and mobilise beneficiaries for enabling them to address their legal issues independently
• Provide follow up and direct legal assistance on the issues which cannot be addressed by beneficiaries independently
• Identify, analyse and document violations of the rights, propose and advocate remedies
• Contribute to the monitoring and profiling exercises organized and/or participated by NRC
• Cooperate with relevant NRC core competences and support units to develop integrated response to the beneficiaries’ needs
• Compile narrative and statistical reports in the respective formats
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Perform any other tasks as requested by ICLA PC/PM.

Qualifications:

• Experience from working on the similar positions in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Good knowledge of English, both written and verbal
• Good knowledge of the context in Ukraine
• Fluency in the Ukrainian and Russian languages
• Good knowledge of English is an advantage
• High education with background in law or similar
• Experience of working as a lawyer in civil and administrative law
• Experience of working in the field with displaced and/or vulnerable groups and communities
• Knowledge of the software programs (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Personal qualities:

• Managing resources to optimise results
• Handling insecure environments
• Working with people
• Coping with change
• Planning and delivering results
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Analyzing.

We offer:

Contract period: until 31 December 2020

Salary/benefits: Competitive salary, training opportunities, medical insurance, 7,5 h. working day

Duty station: Kurakhove, Ukraine

For submitting CVs please follow the link –https://23109900.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit/Public/4294195756?language=en&link_source_id=0 

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

Please note that we will contact only with shortlisted candidates.

NRC retains the discretion to cancel the recruitment.