Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Closing date: 01 Mar 2020
Job designation (2 positions)
Manager/Senior Legal Expert, Diakonia IHL Centre, Jerusalem.
Senior Legal Advisor, Diakonia IHL Centre, Jerusalem.
Duration: 1 year, with the possibility of extension.
Overview
Two exciting roles for experienced and passionate international legal specialists to join Diakonia’s expanding International Humanitarian Law Centre.
Why we work on IHL
As an organisation with a long history and track record of promoting human rights across the world, engaging on the complementary and specific legal framework regulating armed conflict (IHL) provides Diakonia with a more holistic basis for promoting respect of human dignity under all situations and circumstances. By prompting compliance with and enforcement of these basic legal standards before, during and after armed conflict, the Diakonia IHL Centre strives to generate more humanity in conflict, which we see as an essential starting point towards Diakonia’s overall vision of a just, equal and sustainable world.
What’s in it for me?
Both positions provide an opportunity to work on international humanitarian law for an experienced IHL actor, working in a highly challenging and complex conflict environment. Both roles will include international travel and the opportunity to engage with IHL and human rights specialists locally and globally. For staff that excel within the Centre, there will opportunities to relocate to other IHL desks, such as ones currently in Mali and Lebanon, and in the future Myanmar and Kenya.
Main Responsibilities
The Manager will lead a dynamic team of legal, advocacy, and programming experts at the Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Centre, Jerusalem. The managers will oversee the management of the team, lead the strategic development of the desk, ensure compliance to internal standards, and will play a significant role in the management team of the IHL Centre as a whole.
The position of Senior Legal Advisor will be expected to conduct legal research, oversee and produce reports and briefs, deliver and support training sessions and presentations. In addition, the position will support the manager in high level representation and will be responsible for leading and ensuring quality and accuracy of all legal briefs and reports emanating from the legal advisors.
Core qualifications required:
The desired profile of both the Manager/Senior Legal Expert and Senior Legal Advisor is that of an individual with a specialised background and experience in international humanitarian law and human rights law, with high level people and communication skills.
- Degree in law (JD or LLM) with specialization and/or experience in international humanitarian law, international human rights law and international criminal law;
- Five to ten years of experience working in the field of human rights, humanitarian law, or international law;
- Experience working in one or multiple conflict affected environments;
- Excellent analytical, research, writing and editing skills;
- Ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including diplomats, policy makers and state officials;
- Excellent communications skills, in particular in public speaking;
- Strong knowledge about the oPt and Israel context and specific legal issues subject to analysis;
- Outstanding level of English writing proficiency; command of Arabic and/or Hebrew advantageous;
- Ability to work flexible hours in a fast-paced work environment and willingness to travel;
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, flexibility and sense of humour.
The position of manager requires significant management experience. For the Manager/Senior Legal Expert the additional elements are expected:
Three to five years of management experience;
Demonstrated successful experience managing teams in a high paced and high-pressured environment;
Familiarity with donor reporting and relations;
Budget management experience.
Benefits
Diakonia offers a competitive package, including salary, tax coverage, pension allowance, generous leave and individual medical Insurance.
For questions regarding the positions please contact the Diakonia IHL Centre Manager, Stephen Wilkinson at stephen.wilkinson@diakonia.se.
How to apply:
Application Details
Cover letter (max 2 pages A4) and curriculum vitae, including at least two (2) references, should be submitted by email to Diakonia at vacancies.jerusalem@diakonia.se no later than the 1st of March 2020, with the job position applied for clearly stated in the email title.
Incomplete application will be automatically excluded.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Diakonia is an equal employment opportunity organization.
