Overview
The Team Leader will ensure the effective implementation of DRC’s intervention in Aden, Lahj and Taiz Governorates, supervising legal aid and victim assistance interventions and maintaining effective working relationships with stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure successful implementation of legal activities, including spending plans, procurement, and resource use.
- Support project planning, work plans, and target tracking.
- Monitor financial commitments and expenditures against budgets.
- Contribute to legal aid proposals with field-related inputs.
- Monitor and ensure successful implementation of partners’ activities.
- Collaborate with the legal team to identify and develop relevant legal topics for awareness-raising.
- Establish a schedule for regular legal consultation sessions.
- Document/track types of legal issues addressed.
- Provide accurate and up-to-date information on relevant laws and procedures.
- Remain up-to-date on legal procedure, Yemen Law and policy developments.
- Provide technical support, supervision, and guidance to the legal team.
- Conduct on-the-job coaching through field visits.
- Identify and implement solutions for technical gaps.
- Provide capacity building to legal aid team members.
- Conduct regular individual and group supervisions with legal staff.
- Ensure and monitor correct documentation of cases.
- Ensure confidentiality of information and data protection protocols.
- Review staff caseloads to ensure they are manageable.
- Supervise activities' implementation of local partners.
- Ensure effective implementation of victim assistance programs.
- Ensure casefiles are complete, accurate, and confidential.
- Implement monitoring and evaluation tools and provide recommendations.
- Undertake field and site visits to monitor quality of implementation.
- Assess hospitals and sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs).
- Provide oversight of hospital payment process.
- Ensure appropriate and timely spending in line with allocated budget and targets.
- Manage legal and VA staff.
- Participate in recruitment processes for protection/legal staff.
- Support staff in implementation of VA and Legal activities.
- Ensure respect and implementation of HR procedures.
- Ensure adherence of staff to DRC Code of Conduct, policies, rules and regulations.
- Submit weekly and monthly reports on legal activities, developments, and project implementation progress.
- Revise legal activities tracking sheets and share compiled versions.
- Submit necessary data for timely reporting on Activity Info.
- Coordinate with MEAL team to ensure PDM and PSM are conducted.
- Revise partners’ reports and submit them.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders.
- Advocate for the needs of vulnerable individuals.
- Train hospital focal points and other stakeholders on DRC’s VA program.
- Liaise with other DRC sectors to ensure an integrated approach.
- Maintain an up-to-date service mapping of legal service providers.
- Attend Protection Cluster/s and coordination meetings.
- Perform any other duties as directed by the Protection Manager and Protection Specialist.
- Attend call for duty during emergencies upon decision of line-manager.
- Maintain positive work relationship within the team and promote team-building efforts.
- Comply with DRC's Code of Conduct, program requirements and operational policies.
- Treat all partners and beneficiaries with dignity and respect clients’ confidentiality.
Required Experience
- A minimum of three years of relevant experience in the field of humanitarian response and protection or health, ideally for an I/NGO or UN agency.
- Experience in management of a team with proven leadership qualities.
- Familiarity experience with persons of concern (including internally displaced persons, returnees, refugees) would be a distinct advantage.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of international protection and human rights legal standards, including familiarity with International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, Refugee law, National law and customary rules.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills and respect for people with specific needs and other vulnerabilities.
- Ability to work in a multicultural context as a flexible and respectful team player.
- Ability to provide technical support, trainings and supervision to Officers and Assistants.
- Excellent writing, reporting, and analytical skills.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, effective in representation and liaison with external parties.
- Excellent organizational and planning skills as well as communication and inter-personal skills.
- Punctuality and respect for applicable rules and procedures.
- Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, work independently and prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
- Self-motivation, goal/result-orientation and team work.
- Flexibility, creativeness, tolerance and maturity.
- Computer/IT literacy (OS Windows, MS (Word, Excel in particular), etc.)
Qualifications
- Relevant University Degree (e.g., Law, Psychology, Social Work, Medicine) or equivalent professional qualification.
- Desirable qualifications: Master's degree in law.
