Vacancy title:
Legal Officer

Jobs at:
HAGURUKA

Deadline of this Job:
26th November 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 21st November 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

JOB DETAILS:

HAGURUKA is a Non-Governmental Organization whose mission is to promote and defend the rights of women and children.

The headquarters is located in Kigali at KIMIRONKO with 4 Local Regional Offices in 4 Districts, such as KAYONZA, NYANZA, MUSANZE, and NYAMASHEKE.
Funded by USAID through Chemotic international, Haguruka is implementing a 3-year Access to Justice Activity entitled Duteze lmbere Ubutabera (DIU). The objective of DIU is to:

• Improve judicial effectiveness in both formal court mechanisms and community justice (Abunzi); and
  
•  Improve public understanding of judicial system processes and legal rights.
  

In line with the above background, Haguruka would like to recruit five qualified lawyers for the position of Legal Officers. Reporting to the Project Coordinator. Legal Officers will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation and coordination of the project activities in project working districts.

Key tasks:

• Providing accurate, timely and effective legal adviceto beneficiaries;
  
• Advising beneficiaries on their legal rights and obligations;
  
• Writing up legal documents like legal briefs and mediation minutes;
  
• involved in out of court settlements;
  
• Preparing arguments to be heard in a trial;
  
• Conducting mobile legal clinics in communities;
  
• Conducting community dialogues
  
• Involved in advocacy before different institutions;
  
• Conducting campaigns at the grassroots levels;
  
• Referral of cases to respective institutions;
  
• Conducting family mediation in a case involving women or children;
  
• Submitting beneficiaries‘ submissions to court via IECMS system (electronic filing)
  
• Maintaining contact with local authorities of the project working districts
  
• Maintain contacts with the paralegals working in the project districts
  
• Ability to providing training on child rights, family law, succession law, a law on Gender-Based Violence and land law with paralegals;
  
• Produce a periodic report on the project implementation;
  
• Represent the organization in different meetings, seminars and for workshops related to human rights and legal aid in the respective areas of the project coverage.
  

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Law,
  
• At least 3 years of work experience in training in gender issues.
  
• Demonstrated capacity in community mobilization
  
• Varied experience in delivering trainings and other capacity building initiatives on legal issues
  
• Proven ability to work effectively with diverse groups of people in communities
  
• Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated commitment to participatory approaches.
  
• Excellent written and spoken English and Kinyarwanda.
  
• Ability to use ICT to access information and prepares reports
  

Expression of interest and application
interested candidates should send their applications enclosed with a cover letter explaining why they are interested in the post and summarizing the personal attributes which make them ideally suited for the role, Curriculum Vitae, Academic documents and other certificates; and names and contact details of three reference persons including the last employer.