Legal Officer at Plan International

Duties for the Legal Officer Job

• Provide legal advice on matters relating to child protection issues and court representation for child protection cases at the CPC.

• Prepare child witnesses from the CPC for hearings in court.

• Watching brief in cases of defilement referred to the CPC.

• Develop a capacity building plan for partners and communities on child protection issues and court representation for child protection cases for CPC.

• In consultation with the project team, develop training materials for partners and community trainings on child rights.

• Disseminate Information Education and Communication (IEC) materials outlining legal instruments that safeguard children and their rights to partners and communities in the CPC.

• Training partners and communities on children rights and disseminating legal instrument that safeguard children.

Legal Officer Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Diploma from the Kenya School of Law.

• Must be an Advocate of the High Court in Kenya.

• 3 years’ experience working in child protection and/or child rights programming

Key Skills and competencies

• Good people skills

• Confidentiality

• Good report writing skills

• Experience in developing capacity building plans

• Experience in developing training materials for partners and communities

• Good facilitation skills

• Experience in developing policy briefs with a view to influence key child protection policies at the county and national level