Legal and Policy Officer – Myanmar (National)

Mission

Geneva Name is a impartial and neutral non-governmental group devoted to selling respect for worldwide humanitarian norms in armed battle and different conditions of violence. Geneva Name’s mission is to make sure that armed teams and de facto authorities respect Worldwide Humanitarian Legislation and primary humanitarian ideas within the areas the place they combat, or they management.

Geneva Name consists of many numerous nationalities, cultures, languages, and opinions. Geneva Name is an inclusive working surroundings for all its employees. Purposes are notably inspired from all certified candidates with out distinction on the grounds of race, color, intercourse, nationwide origin, age, faith, incapacity, sexual orientation, and gender id.

Function

The aim of Authorized and Coverage Officer is to supply thematic and authorized experience on points associated to worldwide humanitarian legislation (IHL) and worldwide human rights legislation (IHRL). S/he additionally contributes to the event of Geneva Name’s materials associated to operations, helps inner capacity-building, and represents Geneva Name in related skilled conferences.

Core duties

• Present IHL/IHRL authorized and coverage assist to Geneva Name’s operations, programme implementation, and constructing organizational capability for subject employees;
• Authorized experience for Geneva Name’s Myanmar operation;
• Assist employees improvement and steady studying on substantive thematic points;
• Act as a focus for undertaking employees, with a view to foster synergies, coherency of instruments and coaching supplies, and guarantee stream of communication throughout undertaking groups;
• Present recommendation and steerage on mainstreaming and integrating gender, intersectionality, and variety throughout all thematics and initiatives;
• Assist the event of fabric for brand new thematics or enlargement of current thematics;
• Assist outreach and authorized/coverage actions for Geneva Name’s thematic priorities and public actions.

Predominant {qualifications}

Training

• Superior college diploma in a related subject (worldwide public legislation, political science,worldwide relations, or associated subject);
• A specialization in IHL and IHRL;
• superior authorized research in a related subject is extremely fascinating.

Skilled Competencies

• Confirmed experience in authorized evaluation and analysis.
• Glorious writing and reporting expertise.
• Glorious command of Burmese and English (each oral and written).
• Demonstrated means to work independently and with minimal supervision, and as part of a multicultural staff in a worldwide construction offering assist to colleagues in lots of subject places.
• Demonstrated dedication to integrating gender, intersectional, and variety issues into all points of their work.
• Demonstrated means to speak and collaborate successfully with people and groups in any respect ranges, each internally and externally.
• Confirmed glorious communication expertise with means to adapt to totally different audiences.
• Means to work underneath strain and to deal with a number of duties concurrently.
• Means to handle conflicting priorities and ship to deadlines.

Behavioural Competencies

• Understanding and respect for humanitarian ideas and the organizational imaginative and prescient, mission and confidentiality.
• Demonstrated means to thrive in a matrix administration surroundings. Developed interpersonal and communication expertise together with influencing, negotiation and training.
• Sturdy communications expertise (each written and verbal) at a stage acceptable for subject employees, armed teams, and different key stakeholder communities and talent to tailor trainings and substantive humanitarian messages to totally different audiences.
• Willingness and talent to journey at brief discover.
• Means to work independently and take initiatives.

Work expertise

• At the very least 2 years of related skilled expertise, together with authorized and coverage recommendation to humanitarian organizations or different organizations working in conflict-affected areas.
• Important expertise in designing and implementing trainings within the humanitarian subject for varied audiences and totally different ranges; related subject expertise is a major asset.
• Expertise working in a world matrix construction in a optimistic and constructive method.

Efficiency administration

The worker will likely be accountable for the duties and the competencies, in accordance with the GC Efficiency Administration p. The next paperwork will likely be used for efficiency opinions:

• The Job Description
• The person Work- and Skilled Improvement Plan
• The Competency Framework

Battle of curiosity

Any candidate affiliated to, or overtly supporting, a number of curiosity teams against the Basis’s ideas and values, or whose earlier place might engender questions of safety for co-workers at Appel de Genève / Geneva Name, will likely be excluded from this choice course of.

Circumstances

• Place : Authorized & Coverage Officer
• Kind of Contract: Operational Consultancy Contract, Fiexed Time period, Nationwide place
• Exercise price: 100%, full-time place
• Work place: Myanmar (with 20% journey)
• Most well-liked begin date: as quickly as attainable