ICLA technical officer (Real Estate, Construction and Land Law) -Ukraine nationals only - Ukraine

Kramatorsk

Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Kramatorsk
Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
Occupational Groups:
- Legal - Broad
- Engineering
- Administrative support
- Legal - International Law
- Architecture, Building and Property Management
- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Information, Counselling & Legal Assistance
- Protection Officer (Refugee)
- Human Settlements (Shelter, Housing, Land, Property)
Closing Date: Closed

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

NRC is looking for ICLA technical officer (Real Estate, Construction and Land Law) in our office in Mariupol, Ukraine.
The role of NRC ICLA Real Estate, Construction and Land Law technical officer is to deliver high quality information, counselling and legal assistance services within the area of expertise and ensure synergies with other NRC Core Competencies, and in particular NRC Shelter and Settlements programme.

Job description

Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• 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
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Assess, promote and document ideas for technical improvement and further program development options
• 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 mobilize 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, analyze 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
• Perform any other tasks as requested by ICLA PC/PM/PDM.

Qualifications

• High education in law
• Experience in real estate, construction and land law
• Fluency in Ukrainian and Russian, both written and verbal
• Good knowledge of the context in East Ukraine
• Good Knowledge of the software programs (MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
• 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.

Education level

College / University, Bachelor's degree

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: 12 months contingent upon availability of funds
Salary/benefits: According to NRC country policy
Duty station: Kramatorsk, Donetsk oblast