Legal Analyst (National contract)

DRC is an International non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world.  DRC has responded to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine by re-entering the country in the autumn of 2014 and launching emergency humanitarian assistance for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and for other for conflict-affected populations in Eastern Ukraine. 

 

DRC Legal Assistance Unit in Ukraine is established to broaden and strengthen DRC protection services for the IDPs and conflict affected people of Ukraine. The Legal Assistance Unit implements legal aid program both directly through DRC’s own lawyers as well as through partnership with national legal aid NGOs. The short term objective is to ensure that DRC and its partner lawyers provide high quality legal aid services. The mid-term objective is to develop relevant and innovative product and services with the view to increasing quality of service, and efficiency in service delivery. The other mid-term objective is to position DRC on a platform for high impact advocacy. The long term objective is to transfer the knowledge and capacity to national actors and contribute towards strengthening the broader civil society resources. 

 

 

The Legal Analyst will be responsible for the following tasks:

 

Research, compilation and analysis of law and practices  

• Compile national and international law relevant to the protection of the rights of IDP, refugee and stateless persons  
• Compile legal and administrative processes and practices in relation to the laws and regulation relevant to the protection of the rights of IDPs 
• Provide legal analysis whenever needed for the use of the legal network, its lawyers, managers and external network members 
• Conduct legal research and write thematic reports on issues identified by the legal network and the legal assistance unit 
• Contribute to training programms for lawyers, judges and other stakeholders
• Systematically collect information through the lawyers, monitors and other field actors for use in evidenced based advocacy and other purposes
• Prepare survey and other fact finding and documentation reports, coordination meeting minutes, statistics and other communication materials to support internal flow of information
• Participate and contribute to round tables and other events of the unit 

• Actively liaise with advocacy stakeholders and assist Program Manger in designing DRC's legal unit advocacy strategy  
• Create advocacy tools 
• Carry on advocacy initiatives in line with advocacy strategy, utilizing advocacy tools. 
• Represent DRC in different advocacy forums.  
• Hold monthly access to justice roundtable, and other roundtables in consultation with the Program Manager.  

• As the focal person, draft DRC monthly legal alert in consultation with DRC legal unit members 
• Manage legal alert mailing list 
• Translate, in cooperation with other legal unit members,  DRC legal alert in Ukrainian and Russian 
• Ensure wider dissemination of DRC legal alert 

• Assist Program Manager in legal partner management, including drafting of contract, ensuring partner compliance, collecting and compiling partner reports etc.  
• Assist Program Manager in capacity development of partner lawyers and managers 
• Coordinate with partner and direct operation lawyers on information materials used, and create synergies for cross utilization of information materials by partner and direct implementation lawyers. 

  

To be successful in this role we expect you to be reliable, rigorous and well organized, committed to professional development, able and willing to learn and extend scope of work and to organize prioritization and planning, possess excellent inter-personal, communication and negotiation skills. All employees should master DRC's core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity. 

 

To be successful at this role you have to demonstrate proven experience and capacity of making legal researches and analysis and writing recommendations, as well as capability in designing DRC's legal unit advocacy strategy and to liaise with advocacy stakeholders.

 

Required  

 

Contract length: 4 months with possible prolongation based on performance and further funding available

Start date: 11 September 2017

 

All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. Applications sent by email will not be considered. 

 

Closing date for applications: 14 August 2017. Due to the urgent nature of this recruitment, DRC reserves the right to interview candidates on rolling basis, so the candidate might be selected before the closing date. 

 

If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please contact job@drc.dk  

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.