ICLA Officer Ethiopia North Afar

The ICLA Officer ensures the day-to-day implementation of all ICLA activities, providing mobile legal assistance to project participants who are unable to claim or realize their rights. The Officer supervises staff, ensures compliance with NRC Code of Conduct, national law, donor requirements, and supports displaced people in accessing durable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
• Ensure that ICLA projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection and contribute to new approaches for assisting target populations.
• Oversee day to day activities of ICLA, particularly legal information, counseling and assistance to ensure quality of services.
• Manage and supervise ICLA Technical Assistants (TAs).
• Assist ICLA TAs in identifying and selecting beneficiaries and collecting relevant documents.
• Organize and conduct information sessions with the team per ICLA standards and project documents.
• Provide individual counselling to beneficiaries where the issue is complex, especially for cases related to Housing, Land and Property matters.
• Identify legal cases and assist beneficiaries as needed.
• Conduct legal research and analysis, needs and other assessments as required.
• Organize and conduct capacity building trainings and related mentorship sessions for external stakeholders.
• Provide on-job training to ICLA TAs.
• Work closely with other core competencies in finding touching points for ICLA integrated programming.
• Supervise, monitor, and ensure team’s data entries in the electronic database each month and verify and organize hard copies of sources of verification.
• Look out for advocacy, access, and protection needs from the field and report regularly to the ICLA Team Leader.
• Raise PR and follow up with the logistics department as needed.
• Liaise with governmental, non-governmental organizations and UN agencies to establish and maintain networks for referrals.
• Update the M&E matrix regularly and share with ICLA PC on a timely manner.
• Send weekly and monthly reports on team’s progress to the line manager.
• Any other tasks assigned by the line manager.

Requirements

• University degree in law, or a related field and a thorough knowledge of Ethiopian law.
• Experience working as a Legal Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Previous experience working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Good knowledge of English is preferred.
• Experience working in a Protection or legal assistance implementation position.
• At least 1-2 years’ experience in project management, including supervision of staff and ensuring compliance with internal policies and procedures.
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation and reporting on project activities.
• Prior experience of representing an I/NGO, and advocating on behalf of beneficiaries, in public forums (e.g. Protection Sector).
• Willing to travel to the “hard to reach areas” covered under ICLA projects in Central area.
• Advanced computer skills, especially in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.

Skills

• Ethiopian law
• Project Legal Management
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Protection Implementation
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Staff Supervision
• Compliance Management
• Advocacy in public forums
• Legal Counseling
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook
• Working in volatile contexts
• Travel to Remote Locations

Languages

English