Safe Passage International recrute 01 Coordinateur Juridique – Projet Alliance Française Pro Bono

Safe Passage International is looking for a “Coordinateur Juridique – AFPBA Project” to supervise volunteer lawyers to undertake casework relating to the protection and family reunion for Afghans. You will be a member of the AFPBA Project together with the Project Manager and 2 coordinators in the region (Iran and Pakistan), in addition to the volunteer lawyers (pro-bono) who will be sited within the individual commercial firm partners.

L’AFPBA is a new project that Safe Passage France will deliver with funding and pro bono capacity of 12 leading commercial law firms. It aims to respond to the increased need for legal advice and representation of Afghan nationals and their family members who have been forced to seek protection and reunion with family in France following the Taliban takeover, including human rights defenders.

The project will focus on delivering high quality legal representation in a range of cases, including family reunion, and any specific schemes that will emerge As the Coordinator Juridique you would have full responsibility for training and supervising the pro bono lawyers who will undertake the legal casework as well as other responsibilities as listed below.

The casework of this Project will help to feed into strategic efforts by the NGOs to make existing ‘safe’ routes to protection (in particular refugee family reunion and resettlement schemes) more accessible and effective, advocate for their expansion and defend the fundamental rights of people on the move by influencing policy and decision making.

The Project recognises that pro bono legal work is always an adjunct to, and not a substitute for, an adequate system of publicly funded legal services. The Project will aim to support and enthuse legal aid practitioners promoting increased casework capacity in the sector for family reunion work. The Project will also monitor and document any gaps in legal aid provision within its scope of work and contribute to campaigning efforts to facilitate increased publicly funded provision.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a ground-breaking team and build its capacity to win change on refugee related issues. The AFBPA project will be fully integrated within Safe Passage France team.

 

Who we are?

Working at Safe Passage means working at a different sort of charity. We’re small, nimble and laser-focused on the impact that only we can make.

Safe Passage was founded in late 2015 in response to the refugee situation in Europe. In the past four years, we have grown from a small project of the charity Citizens UK, to a separate international organisation. We now comprise 25 members of staff based in the UK, France, and Greece, supporting refugees and migrants to access safe and legal routes to asylum to and across Europe.

Our team in France is constituted by the Director of France, a Casework Coordinator and a Casework and Advocacy Coordinator for the North of France and an Advocacy and Communication Coordinator.

• Our vision is for every person seeking asylum to be able to access a safe and legal route to a place where they can lead a full and dignified life.
• We do things differently – championing refugees’ rights by combining strategic legal work, advocacy, capacity building and community organising.
• We are focused on achieving systemic change in refugee and asylum policy at both nation-state and international level.

To date over 2,000 individuals have travelled to safety through routes we have opened. Our work is recognised with awards from Liberty, Sheila McKechnie, the European Parliament and EU Commission.  We were also chosen as one of The Guardian’s ‘Charity of the Year’ in 2016.

 

Job Description : Coordinateur Juridique – Programme Afghanistan.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

• Have conduct of cases and provide high quality legal advice and representation to clients.
• Supervise the work of volunteer pro bono commercial lawyers on cases.
• Deliver training to pro bono commercial lawyers.
• Register incoming referrals from individuals and referring organisations, google groups and other platforms.
• Prepare and allocate referrals to firm pro bono project leads.
• Monitor the progress of referrals within the firm pro bono teams.
• Build legal aid provider referral networks and relationships.
• Maintenance of case management records and data capture for analysis and evaluation purposes.
• Organise and lead the training of pro bono commercial lawyers and training of other partners.
• Develop and disseminate relevant information on legal developments in this area for relevant stakeholders, including building capacity of other practitioners.
• Work in close collaboration with the Project Manager and the coordinators in the region (Iran and Pakistan) to ensure that appropriate steps to achieve the aims and objectives of the programme are taken.
• Work in close collaboration with the Project Manager to contribute to the production of materials such as project periodic reports, content for newsletters, social media posts and articles to raise awareness of the project and its aims and outputs.
• Work in close collaboration with other Safe Passage International teams (in France, the UK and Greece), particularly with the Afghan Pro Bono Initiative, a similar project led by SPI and RLS in the UK, to develop and share experiences and best practice in relation to all aspects of programme implementation and relevant internal processes.
• Work in close collaboration with the coordinators in the region (Iran and Pakistan) to contribute to the production of information sheets and other materials to disseminate with the affected communities.

 

Working at Safe Passage

We are ground-breaking, determined, and compassionate. Committed to opening and defending safe, legal routes to people seeking sanctuary, particularly children.

We enjoy creativity, imagination, challenge, and a good sense of humour. We work hard to deliver excellence for all our partners: clients, donors, and other strategic partners. We look for talented, passionate people to join our team and take us further.

We are responsive to flexible working needs including disabilities, childcare, carers, and others.  We also value equality and diversity, and strive to build a workforce reflective of the communities we work in.  We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, or disability.

 

We believe a work-life balance helps staff deliver their best work.