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About WSTA

Watan's Social and Technical services Association «WSTA» is a humanitarian organization, established in 1992 for the purpose of assisting vulnerable Afghan returnees and IDPs, This organization has been registered with ministry of Economy and has the permission to work in all over the country. As well as WSTA has membership of ANCB, ACBAR and based on code No. WON and registration No. OPS-CR-0535, with estimable UNOPS office.

Job Description

The main responsibility of the Legal assistant and legal Counsellor is to provide legal support to persons in need, by implementing UNHCR legal assistance program in accordance with relevant Standard Operating Procedures, standards, and policies, with the aim of providing quality, timely and effective legal responses to the people we serve.  

Legal assistance includes (a) legal awareness raising by sensitizing displaced communities and families on their fundamental rights and procedures to access legal and civil documentation (b) individual or group counseling and (c) legal assistance means facilitation and access to the issuance of civil documentation such as birth certificates, Tazkira, Marriage certificate, death certificate, educational documents etc.

Main responsibilities:

• Identify and provide legal awareness, legal counselling, and legal assistance to support PWS on legal and civil documentation including birth certificates, Tazkira, Marriage certificate, death certificate, educational documents etc.
• Providing awareness to PWS to sensitize people we serve on their fundamental rights and procedures to obtain civil documents
• Provide individual counselling to beneficiaries where the issue is complex, especially for cases related to civil documents.
• Identify Legal Identity Document (LID) cases and assist beneficiaries as needed.  Facilitate clients before Justice and Judicial offices including filling Tazkira form, preparing petitions or any other legal letter if requested by clients in accordance with laws.
• Organize and conduct capacity building trainings and related mentorship sessions for external stakeholders especially NSIA staff.
• Coordinate with local stakeholders as needed, including with government officials and humanitarian partners.
• Keep UNHCR FO protection staff informed of the development and challenges of the implementation of the legal assistance program regularly and in a timely manner.
• Stay abreast of the local legal and protection context
• In case of need refer cases to other service providers.
• To ensure confidentiality in their work should store the soft and hard records of cases properly.
• Supervise, monitor, and ensure his/her data entries in the electronic database each month and verify and organize hard copies of sources of verification.
• Conduct needs and other assessments as required.
• Send weekly and monthly reports on progress to the Legal assistance project manager.

Skills Required

• Communication Skills
• Basic Computer
• analysis skills

Submission Guideline:

Interested Candidates are requested to submit their applications (CV and Cover letter) by email to jobs@wsta.ngo and legal.pm@wsta.ngo by mentioning the job title and vacancy number in the subject line of your emails otherwise your applications will not be accepted.

WSTA has a zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse therefore, all project staff will be subjected to background and security checks. We are also against all forms of gender-based violence, exploitation, and abuse of children in the context of our operation in the country. We are committed to the “Do No Harm” principle in our workplace and throughout our operation in the country therefore, our staff must also respect the organizational code of conduct and safety policy. WSTA provides equal employment opportunities and does not ask for money or gifts at any stage of the recruitment process.

Submission Email:

jobs@wsta.ngo, legal.pm@wsta.ngo