Lawyer – Part Time

[Telafar,Iraq ]

NGO:
Founded in 2003, Women Rehabilitation Organization (WRO) is a non-profit, non-governmental, independent organization dedicated to working towards the protection and advancement of women’s and child rights and the engagement of all members of society across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). WRO supports the needs of all members of society in prevention and response to sexual/gender-based violence (SGBV) and increasing their access to quality integrated economic, social, protection, and health services. WROs mission is to engage as humanitarian aid workers to provide effective and efficient humanitarian aid and development support and empower individuals and communities to become agents of change where every woman, man and child have access to social justice, gender equality and a dignified life free from violence and discrimination. WRO vision is built on the principles and believes in collaborate and collective action of civil society, international organizations and individuals in investing in the communal needs of refugee, IDPs and host communities to forge social cohesion and peaceful coexistence.

In partnership with UN agencies, international organizations and governmental bodies, WRO has been able to successfully contribute towards meeting individual and community needs and WRO has become a local and regional expert in SGBV prevention and response and multi-sectorial holistic empowerment programming that fosters gender and protection mainstreaming. WRO has over a seventeen-year history of successfully delivering over 100 humanitarian and development initiatives focused on local, regional, and global advocacy, stabilization and reconciliation, peace building, general protection, child protection, SGBV prevention and response, psychological MHPSS and physical health and well-being, non-formal education, individual and community capacity building, wash, legal, advocacy, livelihoods, political and economic participation, voter and democratic awareness, reconstruction civil society and governmental capacity building and engagement initiatives. Furthermore, WRO is devoted to international commitments including contribution to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNSCR 1325 on women, peace, and security, and UNSCR 2250 on youth, peace, and security, and is committed to child safeguarding and combatting SEA with its zero-tolerance policies.

As a national and regional expert in holistic individual, family and community economic, education, protection, social, and equal participation empowerment. WROs efforts have shed light locally and internationally through awareness raising and advocacy on many important issues such as mainstreaming gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response across all sectors, sexual violence in conflict SVC, and other issued related to marginalized groups rights in Iraq and the Middle East through initiatives that directly impact tens of thousands of families each year including though provision of lifesaving support and developmental dignified solutions and services that drive individual and collective healing, integration, inclusion, resiliency, self-determination, and peaceful coexistence with dignity and care. 

 Position: Lawyer

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide legal advice and consultation and handle all legal processes including court representation .
• Support GBV/SGBV cases which are identified to be in need for legal support and representation.
• Maintain confidentiality in all matters.
• Manage all legal reports and documents.
• Prepare all documents required to file cases.
• Maintain a regular schedule based on case requirements.
• Review discovery documents and determine the best course of action for each beneficiary in each case.
• Prepare documentation of legal proceedings.
• Prepare legal documents.
• Arbitrate disputes between parties to resolve legal conflicts.
• Prepare and draft legal documents.
• Demonstrate an ability to make a strategic and dynamic approach to the use of law as a tool for the promotion of human rights.
• Provide legal representation on cases before domestic, regional and international human rights fore.
• Able to work in disputed /conflict areas.
• Able to proceed and handle cases in regional and country courts in Ninawah and Kurdistan Region.

 

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Fluency in English and Arabic.
• A legal degree. And a prove of right to practice the profession, and valid lawyer  membership ID.
• Meticulous attention to details.
• Substantial experience using constitutional, regional and local human rights law, with preference to candidates who have had such experience in litigation.
• In-depth or sophisticated understanding of Local and regional and comparative human rights mechanisms, and institutions.
• Knowledge and understanding of women’s human rights and feminist analysis.
• The ability to travel, regularly within Ninawah governorate and Kurdistan Region.

 

DESIRABLE QUALITIES:

 

• University degree in law.
• Solid knowledge of humanitarian law.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Analytical and logical thinking.
• Active attorney’s License.

Please submit CV and cover letter including earliest available start date and salary expectations to: [email protected] Subject Line:    Lawyer -Telafar-Your Name. Please note applications are accepted on a rolling basis. 

 

Thank you very much for your interest, as we are not able to reply to all applications, if your profile meets our needs we will keep in on file for future opportunities. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in due time.