Job Summary:
The Legal Assistant provides direct, hands-on field support to execute day-to-day legal identity interventions. He/she works directly within the target communities to identify undocumented families, conduct baseline intakes, provide initial counseling, and physically accompany beneficiaries through the government administrative process.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct the physical registration of LID cases through community mobile desks and high-density returnee settlements.
- Complete standardized intake forms, ensuring accurate capture of family background data, vulnerability status, and identity gaps.
· Conduct field-level needs assessments and context-monitoring surveys as required under the guidance of the Legal Project Officer.
· Provide high-quality legal counseling sessions and end-to-end administrative accompaniment to beneficiaries visiting local NSIA offices, ensuring services align completely with project SOPs.
· Maintain strict adherence to OHW policies, organizational guidance, and standard operating procedures across all daily field implementations.
· Coordinate closely with traditional village Maliks, Shuras, and Community Development Councils (CDCs) to facilitate witness attestation steps safely and transparently.
· Maintain updated, spotless daily case tracking sheets and submit routine verification logs to the Legal Project Officer.
· Support inter-agency referral tracking to ensure vulnerable cases received from UN agencies or other NGOs are processed effectively.
· Maintain updated, spotless daily case tracking sheets and submit routine verification logs to the Legal Project Officer.
· Support inter-agency referral tracking to ensure vulnerable cases received from UN agencies or other NGOs are processed effectively.
Policy Compliance & Institutional Support:
- Maintain strict adherence to OHW policies, guidelines, and procedures, including the humanitarian code of conduct, PSEA, and data protection rules.
- Directly assist the Project officer in drafting weekly progress updates, monthly narrative logs, and tracking field performance indicators.
- Coordinate closely with traditional village Maliks, Shuras, and Community Development Councils (CDCs) to facilitate witness attestation steps safely and transparently.
