Vacancy title:
Legal Officer

Jobs at:
American Refugee Committee (ARC)

Deadline of this Job:
July 20, 2018 at 17:00hrs

Duty Station:
Nakivale., Uganda

JOB DETAILS:

The American Refugee Committee (ARC) works with its partners and constituencies to provide opportunities and expertise to refugees, displaced people and host communities – to better survive conflicts and crisis, and to rebuild lives of dignity, health, security and self-sufficiency. ARC presently works in and with partners in ten countries globally. ARC has been operational in Uganda since 1994, and today has a strong and committed team of over 130 regular, full time national staff and partners. The overall goal of the Uganda program is to improve the well-being and self-reliance of the displaced refugee populations by ensuring the provision of basic services (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene; Community Services; SGBV/Protection; Child protection; Mental Health & Psychosocial support), currently in six refugee settlements - Nakivale, Oruchinga, Kyaaka II, Kyagwali, Bidi Bidi and Palabek - in Uganda. ARC is looking for competent, qualified, self-driven and committed individuals to be part of and contribute to accomplishing our ambitious and exciting 2018/2019 programming – several challenging full time positions, across the various refugee settlement sites as well as at the ARC main office – Kampala, Uganda:

Job Title: Legal Officer (1 position)
Reports to: Program Manager – Psychosocial
Location: Nakivale.

Job summary
The Legal Officer will be responsible for monitoring the general security situation and follow up on the structures entrusted with security watch in the settlement, monitoring community structures in handling cases within their jurisdiction, accompany persons of concern/ witnesses to courts of judicature as needed and periodically visit detention centers.

Minimum qualifications

• A Bachelor of Law (LLB) & Post graduate Diploma in Law;
• At least three (3) years’ experience working with IDPs, Asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons, on legal matters.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive interviews and provide accurate legal related assessments; and knowledge of the local language is added advantage.

Job application procedure
Submit 1 page Cover letter, an updated CV (maximum three pages) and names, title and contacts of three professional referees, to include your most current employer/supervisor - via email to UGjobs@arcrelief.org  with the POSITION applied for clearly indicated in the subject line. The deadline for submission of applications is July 20, 2018 at 17:00hrs. However due to urgency to fill these positions, applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted on a rolling basis. Only applications received through the above stated email address will be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.