Attorney

• Technically supervise legal and judicial assistance activities in the STAR-RDC project’s areas of intervention
• Ensure quality assurance, compliance with standard operating procedures, and adherence to protection, confidentiality, safety, and ethical standards
• Provide technical support to legal officers, paralegals, judicial defenders, partner lawyers, and community actors
• Conduct regular supervision missions to CISM centers and implementing partners
• Identify field-level challenges and propose corrective measures
• Ensure the quality of legal and judicial case files before submission
• Monitor cases requiring judicial support and coordinate access to justice
• Facilitate coordination with civil and military courts, bar associations, magistrates, and judicial police officers
• Supervise the organization of mobile courts and other access-to-justice mechanisms
• Develop and implement partner capacity-strengthening plans
• Organize training on laws relating to GBV, human rights, child protection, women’s rights, and judicial procedures in the DRC
• Assess the performance of legal teams and propose improvements
• Supervise the identification and training of community paralegals
• Support legal information initiatives and local conflict-prevention and resolution mechanisms
• Develop linkages between the formal justice system, traditional structures, and community-based protection mechanisms
• Supervise the collection and verification of legal data
• Produce monthly, quarterly, and annual technical reports
• Document best practices, lessons learned, and case studies
• Participate in technical coordination meetings and working groups related to GBV and access to justice
• Represent the project before local and provincial judicial authorities when required
• Maintain working relationships with government institutions, partner NGOs, and justice-sector stakeholders
• Contribute to advocacy efforts promoting survivors’ rights

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