Reported To: Advocate

• The Legal Officer will be responsible for providing legal support, advice, and representation to the host community in Cox's Bazar. The role involves working closely with humanitarian organizations, local authorities, and community leaders to ensure that the rights of vulnerable populations are protected and that they have access to justice.

• Ensure legal counseling, mediation and all sorts of legal support (OCC support, communication with Police department & Stakeholder) to the GBV survivors with close collaboration of CIC, IRC, Advocate of Pulse Bangladesh Society and law enforcing agencies. Improve knowledge of community people on common legal issues in the work areas through day-to-day activities and to remove legal barriers from the life of survivors ensuring proper judgments of the cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Give accurate and timely counsel to executives in a variety of legal topics (Dowry, dower, domestic violence’s & child marriage etc.)

• Provide legal support to the survivors referred by the IRC personnel on relevant legal issues.

• Ensure women, girls and child friendly environment in legal support.

• Ensure Legal counseling assistance to the safe shelter and safe space-based survivors.

• Ensure plan of legal sessions and conduct the session in the Rohingya camps and host community.

• Specify internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance.

• Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advice on possible legal issues.

• Ensure compliance with the internal controls, statutory regulations and other formalities.

• Handle risks in legal support delivery process and decision making as and when required

• Draft legal documents such as contracts, statements, agreements of panel lawyers and others.

• Handle litigation and make a good and professional coordination with the donor (IOM).

• Keeping up with current changes on all relevant areas of laws and contributing to the enhancement of the knowledge base of the Company.

• Provide legal assistance (counseling/mediation/court case/bail etc.) to the GBV survivors.

• Maintain administrative rules and procedures, manage plan

• Organize meeting, workshop and training and prioritize tasks.

• Deal with complex matters with multiple stakeholders and forces

• Communicate with the panel lawyers, local police stations and District legal aid committee as per project donor’s requirement.

• Filing FIR & GD at the local police station according to need of legal interventions.

• Refer the emergency cases to the panel lawyers for filing case in the court.

• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly report as per project requirements.