Overview
The Programme Officer (Legal and Transitional Justice) will be responsible for managing, coordinating, and overseeing the activities of the Legal Empowerment and Transitional Justice programme in Iraq, focusing on strategic direction, technical quality, and donor engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate the implementation of the LETJ Unit across its three pillars.
- Manage a diversified portfolio, coordinating programme design, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and donor compliance.
- Provide technical oversight on legal empowerment, reparations frameworks, and legislative/policy processes.
- Maintain coordination with Government of Iraq and Kurdistan Region of Iraq institutions.
- Represent IOM in relevant inter-agency coordination mechanisms.
- Coordinate the establishment and functioning of survivor participation mechanisms.
- Guide CSO and survivor association capacity strengthening.
- Guide and supervise assigned staff and shared-function staff.
- Coordinate donor reporting.
- Undertake duty travel as required.
Required Experience
- Five years of relevant professional experience with a Master’s degree, or seven years with a University degree.
- Experience in legal empowerment, transitional justice, rule of law, human rights, or access to justice programming in conflict-affected or post-conflict settings.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-donor, multi-project portfolios with budgets exceeding USD 2 million.
- Direct experience with reparations frameworks, survivor-centred justice processes, or institutional capacity building for justice-sector reform.
- Experience working with government counterparts at national and sub-national levels on legislative, policy, or procedural reform.
- Experience supervising diverse, geographically dispersed teams.
- Experience in Iraq or comparable Middle East/post-conflict contexts is a distinct advantage.
- Experience with collective reparations, memorialization, missing persons processes, or mass-grave documentation is a distinct advantage.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in Law, International Law, Human Rights, Transitional Justice, Political Science, International Relations, or a related field from an accredited institution; or, University degree in the above fields.
