Amal Healing & Advocacy Center
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Title: Legal Advisor (National Post)
Location: Antakya, Hatay, Türkiye
Position Status: Full time
Length of Contract: 6 Months
Reporting to: MEAL Dept.
Closing Date: 10 Feb 2023
About Amal Healing & Advocacy Center
Amal Healing & Advocacy Center (AHAC) is a women-led organization that specialized in empowering women, who have experienced psychological symptoms resulting from social and sexual violence within their family or community.
AHAC seeks to contribute to creating a change in the status of women in Syrian society and to support them in becoming more aware of their rights and opportunities.
The motivation to start the organization was led by the desire to contribute to building a Syrian society based on fair and equal human rights in an independent civil state.
The organization was founded in 2014 in Antakya, Turkey, which is located near the Syrian-Turkish border, and strives to respond to the needs of Syrian refugee women, survivors of violence in particular.
VISION:
AHAC strives for a world where the voices of Syrian women are raised and heard to attain equal human rights and social justice.
MISSION:
AHAC works with and for Syrian women to advocate, connect and empower each other to build a peaceful community, where all people live in dignity and security.
VALUES:
Female Leadership, Democracy, Empowerment, Social Justice, and Equality.
Job Details:
AHAC team is looking for a highly organized and detail-oriented Legal Advisor to support an AHAC legal department under the #Aswatuna Project in to provide legal counseling and legal support to Families of Missing and Detained Survivors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure efficient and effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan.
- Providing legal advice to beneficiaries on various laws and regulations in order to achieve the desired benefit.
- Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/reports and proposals.
- Conducting research and analysis of the legal problems of the beneficiaries.
- Keep up with legislation and legal developments regarding refugees living in Türkiye.
- Identifying possible courses of action with beneficiaries, interpreting and explaining procedures, legislation, and official documents, and assisting in filling out documents relevant to their legal problems.
- Organizing legal activities with the organization of legal documents for the legal department
- Contribute to the project management to the development of the legal department and its frameworks for the benefit of the beneficiaries.
- Networking with official legal authorities and other legal organizations
- Develop group legal counseling sessions based on community needs, and product information for publications, leaflets, etc.
- Develop legal policy briefings and updates on the implementation of relevant.
- Represent AHAC at meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings.
- Maintain legal case files and update overall project trackers
- Provide accurate reporting to the management team as needed
- Provide necessary reports on work progress to the Monitoring and Evaluation Department and Project Management.
Required Skills/Qualifications:
- University degree in Legal.
- Experience of 8-10 years in Syrian law and good experience in Turkish law.
- At least 0-2 years of working experience in a similar position with a local or International NGO.
- Able to manage multiple tasks and responsibilities;
- Excellent skills in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Good English written communications skills including the ability to prepare reports, Turkish is an asset.
- An understanding of humanitarian/civil society issues in Turkey and the region
- Experience working with Syrian refugees
Core Competencies:
- Team player and ability to multi-task and cope with competing demands under tight deadlines
- A creative approach to solving problems
- Lecturer with good skills
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Stress & Time management skills
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships in a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment
- Willingness to travel within Turkey
How to apply
- Due to national quota regulations, this position is open only to applications from Turkish citizens.
- Women, minorities, and differently-abled persons who fit the criteria are encouraged to apply
- Applications in languages other than English will not be acceptable.
- Multi-sent CVs will be ignored (please send your CV & Cover letter only once at a time).
- No resume will be reviewed after the specified date for receiving a CV for the announced vacancy.
- We thank all applicants; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. Should you not have heard from us within one week after the application deadline, please consider your application as being unsuccessful.
Interested candidates, please attach a Curriculum Vitae in English and a Cover letter (in a separate file of no more than one A4 page) describing how your experience and education relate to the skills and experience outlined in the terms of reference with your salary expected before 10 Feb 2023, stating “Legal Advisor “in the subject line to: [email protected]
Note:
Due to the urgency of filling this post, AHAC reserves the right to review the CVs on a rolling basis, and selected candidates may be interviewed prior to the closing dates listed, therefore early applications are encouraged.
Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
AHAC is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups, and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.
AHAC recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work. AHAC is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach toward any kind of child abuse and exploitation.
AHAC employees and related personnel must not take part in any form of tolerating sexual exploitation and abuse, or any kind of harassment, discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside AHAC.
All staff is expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.