PRoL Emergency Response Officer

Requisition ID: req51710

Job Title: PRoL Emergency Response Officer

Sector: Protection and rule of law

Employment Category: Fixed Term

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Odesa, Ukraine

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

Duty station: Odesa (Mobile)

Key working relationships:

• Position Reports to: ET Team Leader and PRoL Senior Legal Officer
• Position directly supervises: N/A

• Internal collaborations within IRC: Manager, Sr Protection Monitoring and Information officers, Legal Officers, Community Mobilizers, Caseworkers
• External collaborations to IRC: Legal actors, Legal PWG, Free Legal Aid Center staff, Protection and information services actors, organizations, and agencies

Job Overview/Summary:

The Emergency Teams (ET) are fully mobile teams deployed by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Ukraine to provide humanitarian assistance in response in underserved and hard-to-reach areas. Comprised of sector specialists and support staff, ETs are capable of rapidly assessing, delivering, and monitoring assistance in the sectors of Cash and Basic Needs (CBN), Health, and Protection. These teams are specifically designed to be flexible and responsive, able to deploy within 72 hours to identified areas of need. Their primary objective is to provide timely and quality assistance to vulnerable populations, particularly in underserved and hard-to-reach areas. ETs play a crucial role in conducting sector-specific assessments, delivering life-saving aid, implementing targeted interventions, and collaborating with local partners and stakeholders to ensure a coordinated and effective response.

The PRoL officer provides legal information, legal counseling, and legal assistance activities with IRC in Ukraine. The Legal Officer will be based at IRC’s office in Odesa, under the supervision of the ET Team Leader and the PRoL Senior Officer.  The ET PRoL Officer will serve as a key person to implement legal assistance activities along the displacement routes and provide an evidence base to inform the needs of the affected population for program adjustment and advocacy. The legal officer will provide legal services through mobile teams usually in hard-to-reach and underserved areas of Ukraine. S/He will also contribute to the general understanding of the legal context in Ukraine, as the situation and needs evolve.

Specifically, the ET PRoL Officer will be responsible for:

- with the support and supervision of the ET Team Leader and the Sr Legal Officer, create information content that responds to the legal needs of conflict-affected populations, and provide information, either at the community center or other static centers (such as Cash registration points) and through mobile teams.

- work closely with IRC partners to support and guide the implementation of legal information, counseling, and assistance.

- provide individual legal counselling to individuals in need of legal assistance, either at the community center or other static centers (such as Cash registration points) and through mobile teams.

- ensure continuous update of the service map in various oblasts and surrounding oblasts on legal actors and services.

- ensure referrals are made and received safely and according to the SOPs, and ensure referrals received are followed up and that the referral tracker is updated.

- Regularly update the reporting tools with the amount of information, counseling and legal cases provided.

- constantly look for contacts within authorities and key humanitarian stakeholders and update the contact trackers.

- Contribute to the weekly movement plans for locations for legal activities weekly.

- Support and inform the Sr Legal Officer on the needs in term of legal assistance for people in Ukraine.

Requirements:

-Language: Bilingual in Ukrainian and Russian and good verbal and writing skills in English

-Preferably valid Attorney’s License (registered at the Bar Association)

-Previous experience in Legal information, counselling, and assistance, preferably with an NGO

-Experience facilitating group activities, trainings and workshops and mentoring others.

-Excellent communication skills both verbal and in written

-Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients/beneficiaries.

-Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting.

-High degree of flexibility and strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.

-Computer literate, including Microsoft Word and Excel

Professional Standards
The International Rescue Committee is determined to protect the people it serves and staff from all kinds of harm,including sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment. It is committed to take all necessary preventive measures andcreate an environment where people feel safe. IRC builds diverse and inclusive teams of professionals who promotecritical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.
IRC workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct.These are Integrity, Service, Equality, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates andenforces its safeguarding policies to protect adult and child clients from any form of exploitation and abuse, includingsexual exploitation and abuse, and its staff from sexual harassment and violence.
Where misconduct is alleged, IRC follows a Zero tolerance approach and takes all necessary actions and correctivemeasures. IRC investigation unit comprises of experts and trained investigators that ensure professional survivor-centered investigations are conducted if allegations of safeguarding violations are reported through the safe andaccessible reporting channels that IRC makes available to its staff, partners, and clients.
These commitments are set out in IRC’s Safeguarding Policies, accessible in English and in Ukrainian language via thislink: https://rescue.box.com/v/irc-safeguarding-policies. IRC is an active member of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) set up in Ukraine