Τοποθεσία: Αθήνα
Status: Full Time (morning or evening shift)
Position Summary: the lawyers team leader will provide legal counselling and case management for all walk in ASC beneficiaries or referred beneficiaries, including from the mobile teams, while identifying vulnerabilities as to link up eligible cases with support and aid available. The lawyers team leader will monitor attendance of other lawyers from the legal team and consolidate attendance sheets. The lawyers team leader will facilitate the implementation of CARE-SN protection programme.
Position within the Organization:
Hierarchical Responsible: Welfare Service Coordinator
Functioning Lines: Deputy Manager- Reception Coordinator, ASC Officers, Social Workers , Legal Aid Team Members, SN Accommodation Projects Staff, Implementing Partners Social Services , Team Leaders
Responsibilities
- Legal Services Provision
Provide individual counselling on e.g. the asylum procedure/international protection/refugee laws and individual rights, follow up on cases regarding the European Relocation scheme, Family Reunification, and other cases that need legal assistanceProvide legal assistance in administrative procedures regarding issuing of birth certificate, tax number, work permit and the like\Handle the identified legal cases from the sites
- Plan Organize and Supervise the provision of legal consulting/aid
- Undertake legal cases and legally represent to the court (depending on the availability of resources in this area)
- Ensure referrals internally and externally
- Identify vulnerabilities and facilitate their access to available aid
Monitor attendance of other lawyers from the legal team and consolidate attendance sheets
- Data base and Case related info management
- Filling and registering all cases and actions to the DataBase
- Brief and Full Social -Legal History taking
- Updating the hard and electronic files per case
- Maintain hard and electronic files archive updated
- Perform entries in the data base system as required by the above
Mentioned tasks
Networking and collaboration
- Cultivate and maintain an active collaboration link with other Social Services-NGOs and Governmental Actors within the scope of the project
Reporting
- Monitors and consolidates information collected from weekly and staff activity reports, case management supervision records etc.
- Ensure the provision of high-quality reports on activities, indicators and achievements within the established framework (narrative and statistics) to the Solidarity Centre Welfare Coordinator
Other Duties
Represent Team in external Meetings and WGs as requested by Supervisor
- Collaborate with appointed persons for CASH Support, Accommodation, in kind aid or any other additional provision available
- Work with mobile teams to provide basic outreach information on refugee legal rights to beneficiaries
- Participate in Field Trips and Assessments as requested and directed by Supervisor
- Brief and debrief beneficiaries for running programs availability and inform for any relevant change
- Perform other duties, related to the basic Job Description as requested by the Supervisor
Required qualifications and skills
Essential
- Legal Studies Degree
- Lawyers Permission of Work
- 3-5 years working experience in practicing Law (at least 6 months in project serving refugees and migrants population)
- Familiar with Refugee and Migration Law (Asylum processes, Relocation –new Law)
- Cross Cultural Awareness and sensitiveness
- Awareness and ability to work with survivors of Gender-based Violence and the sensitivities and confidentiality measures that this involves.
- High professional ethics, including strict confidentiality of clients
- Understanding and willingness to promote gender equality and understand different vulnerabilities, needs and capacities of men, women, boys and girls
- Computer literate & numerate
- Well organized and efficient
- Good interpersonal, teamworking & communications skills
- Native in Greek
- Fluent in English (both written and spoken)
Desired
- Field Working Experience entry points , Camps/Temporary Settlement or mobile units serving refugee population
- Specific Studies or Proven Engagement in Refugee Focused Projects (e.g Assessments, Surveys, Missions in Islands or to the borders)
- Previous working experience with local or international NGOs will be considered as a strong advantage
Interested Candidates shall submit in a single document their Resume/CV with an intro Text (motivation) in English: recruitment@solidaritynow.org
Both the Document and the e mail shall have as title the ASC- Job title followed by their Surname:
E.g ASC Team Leader Lawyer – GEORGIOU – Please follow the Titling System for your application to be considered.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Not later than by Friday 2nd of December
Remarks: Before submitting your CV, please read carefully the employees’ privacy notice on the processing of personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the respective Greek legislation.
For roles that will have regular contact with vulnerable populations SolidarityNow is obliged to seek information about criminal convictions and offences, and selected candidates will be requested to provide a recent copy of criminal record.
Following the preventive measures against COVID-19, holding a vaccination certificate or undergoing Covid-19 antigen tests as per government directions is mandatory.