Legal officer-National position

Mission

The legal officer is responsible to provide technical legal expertise and leadership in the legal field on Access to Justice Projects and interventions for children and youth in Jordan. He/she advises the implementation of all activities linked to the legal and judicial objectives. Among others, he/she ensures Tdh’s representation at Ministry and local level, and before legal and judicial stakeholders as linked with the position’s objectives. He/she will also be in contact with local partners, other NGOs and stakeholders involved in the legal field. He/she technically supports the A2J Programme on legal aspects of the programs and creates/adapt the technical tools on A2J (guidelines, manuals, adapted monitoring tools, etc), to ensures a qualitative implementation of the activities and follow-up up in accordance with Tdh’s tools and standards. He/she will conduct field visits on the locations, institutions and communities where access to justice activities are implemented to provide the needed technical support.

Key Responsibilities

Cross-functional roles and responsibilities

Technical support on Legal and Juvenile Justice:

• Technically support in the creation of technical supportive materials, in all aspects of the program on legal/judicial aspects (guidelines, manuals, adapted monitoring tools, awareness materials, etc)
• Ensure the legal monitoring of the policies and judicial procedures in Jordan .
• Participate / provision of inputs for the revision of laws / bylaws / procedural documents related to the juvenile/child protection laws in cooperation with other correspondent stakeholders.
• In collaboration with legal/judicial stakeholders, ensure the identification of needs and gaps regarding the implementation of juvenile justice policies/laws in Jordan in order to feed the strategic orientation of the A2J Programme.
• Identify and share information, research, best practices relevant to the field of work.

Legal support on projects:

• According to the program strategic documents and work plans, advises and supports the field teams in the implementation and quality of all legal or judicial activities and all geographical locations.
• Develop legal-related need assessment with partners, stakeholders, families and children.
• Support in developing Access to Justice projects and proposals.

Strategy & Policy:

• Contribute to the development of access to justice programme’s intervention strategies with the coordination and management team, in alignment with access to justice theory of change.
• Make sure that Tdh strategy and policy are implemented in his/her field.
• Refers to national and international policies in child rights, child protection and access to justice for children
• Is responsible to technically advise the delegation on legal aspects regarding access to justice for children and youth.
• Support the access to justice program in the revision of its strategic orientations at country and regional level.

Capacity building, Advocacy and Awareness:

• Identify the training technical legal needs of Tdh staff, Tdh partners and the stakeholders and update them on a regular basis, based on the needs and the assessments conducted .
• Support the development of training curricula on legal protection/mediation/personal status law and/or family law proceedings.
• Facilitate and undertake training, and training of trainers in the areas of expertise as needed.
• Conduct as needed legal related awareness and advocacy actions.
• Attend and facilitate workshops as needed in the area of expertise

Situation analysis, research, innovation:

• Design and conduct situation analysis on relevant topics in the area of expertise.
• Technically input researches on the area of work the position involves.
• Compile and analyses the legal good practices and lessons learned.
• Internal coordination with other members of the A2J team and with other departments of the Jordan delegation and regional colleagues.
• Participate in the data analysis and reporting as related to the position (internal and to donors, proposal writing, etc…)

Reporting:

• Provide monthly reports (Sitrep and PMP) on Tdh template about achievements and work plans including both qualitative and quantitative data.
• Share the reporting tools on a timely manner with line manager.
• Support technical reporting as related to her/his scope of tasks

Child Safeguarding Policy- Safety and Security

• Commits to inform the Country Representative and/or the National Safeguarding Focal Point and/or the Head of MENA Region and to deal with any case of any allegations or possibility of transgression, even potential, of the CSP.
• Respects Terre des hommes security procedures in Jordan.

Partnership

• Ensure Tdh’s representation before national entities (Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Social Development, Judicial Council, Family Protection and Juvenile Department, Academics and national child and youth institutions) and ensure a smooth coordination and collaboration
• Ensure regular and structured coordination between legal and judicial stakeholders, and attend coordination meetings as required.
• Identify new national and international legal partners as required.
• Build up a network with other organizations which operate in the same field of activity

Positioning and Advocacy

• Ensure Tdh Jordan access to justice projects plays an active advocacy role within the governmental and community stakeholders .
• Contribute to the development of advocacy campaigns at the national and community level .

Innovation

• Foster, encourage and support the development of innovations in their region
• Compile and analyses the legal good practices and lessons learned.

Safety and Security

• Comply with Tdh Security Regulations.
• Inform and share any incident or information related to the security of staff and beneficiaries to the line- Manager.

Skills

• Strong communication, organization, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Cultural Sensitivity
• Attention to details.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Solution oriented and strong negotiation skills
• Multi tasks and excellent time management
• Flexibility to adopt and change priorities.
• Flexible, willing to travel

Requirements

Experiment

• Mandatory university degree in law
• Accredited lawyer from the Jordanian Bar Association
• At least 3 years’ experience in the field of legal protection/justice for children in Jordan.

Translation

Proficiency in both Arabic and English, with the ability to translate documents and communications as needed.

Computer know-how

Advanced skills in MS Office, data management software (e.g., Excel, SPSS), project management tools, and data visualization platforms and facilitation skills will be an added.

Objectives

Objectives for the upcoming period should be completed on the Line Supervisor Evaluation Interview Form and in consultation with the functional leaders.

Tdh’s General Code of Conduct and Charter of Cooperation

Commits to the general Code of Conduct and systematically reports any violation of the Code through Tdh’s whistleblowing procedure, raises awareness of violence and abuse and the rights that arise from it concerning children, community members and our own employees.

Commits to complying with risk management policies, including safeguard policies (Child Protection Policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy, Abusive Behaviour at Work Directive), Safety Policy, Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Policies, and Prevention of Financing of Criminal Activities.

Is committed to reducing the risk of abuse by developing an open and informed management culture within the organization and in our work with children and the communities where we work.

Our socio-cultural values and our organizational values are interdependent. While socio-cultural values should be applied primarily in our internal collaboration, and organizational values guide us in our interaction and work with primarily external stakeholders, both sets of values should inspire and accompany us in our interactions with people. All employees are evaluated according to the values of the organization.

Five socio-cultural values guide us in our collaboration: Acting with determination, Serving, Caring, Integrity and Fairness.

Five organizational values that strengthen our operational and strategic choices: Participation and Accountability, Partnership and Collaboration, Innovation and Learning, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership and Excellence.

The salary scale for the position : 977 JD-1100 JD