Legal Incentive worker-Homs

Background/Context:

The IRC has operated in Syria since 2012, providing protection, health, economic recovery, and early childhood development programs in Idleb, Aleppo, Ar-Raqqa, Hassakeh, and Deir ez-Zor, with new programs expanding into Hama, rural Damascus, and Homs. With a team of over 700 members, the IRC has established trust and strong community relationships, ensuring access and effective service delivery. It plays a significant role in Syria’s NGO, donor, and coordination forums, holding key positions and adapting to the evolving context.

With the new realities under the new government, as of December 2024, the IRC has deployed a team to Damascus to set up operations and engage in coordination structures for newly accessible areas across Syria—including parts of NES, NWS, and other previously unreachable locations in South and Central Syria,

Protection

The IRC has been delivering protection programs in the northwest since 2013 and in the northeast of Syria since 2014, focusing on Protection/Rule of Law (PRoL), Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE), and Child Protection (CP). These efforts include specialized case management, PSS, protection monitoring, service mapping, and advocacy. Collaborating with partners, IRC improves access to protection services, raises community awareness, and strengthens referral pathways. Protection capacity building, community outreach, and rapid response through mobile protection teams have also been provided since 2017.

Job Overview/Summary: This position will be based in the Homs office and will focus on supporting and coordinating the implementation of protection activities, in close collaboration with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) programme. The Legal Incentive Worker (LIW) will play a key role in providing legal support to individuals in need, with particular focus on returnees, vulnerable populations, and affected communities. Responsibilities will include delivering legal awareness sessions, providing individual legal counselling, and facilitating access to legal services and assistance. The LIW will work closely with relevant programme teams to ensure integrated and survivor-centred service delivery.

Major Responsibilities:

• Conduct a survey of access to justice and awareness of protection and rights in the community and camps, likely focusing on access to civil status documentation and access to justice in northeast Syria.
• Deliver information sessions on protection, rights and entitlements, legal status, and other issues as required. Provide legal counselling as necessary for individual cases.
• Identify legal needs in the field and provide on-site counselling to persons of concern coordinating with Sr.Legal Officer.
• Receive and attend to referrals from local NGOs, community members, and INGOs.
• Putting map existing legal services/administrative bodies in the area and update it.
• Supporting Returnees related of legal issues (possession of documents- risks of lack civil documentation - how to renew them .etc).
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: IP Prevention Officer.

Indirect Reporting: Senior PRoL Manager, Protection Information Management Office
Internal contacts: IRC protection staff, Senior IP Managers

External contacts: Local INGO and NGOs and community focal points

Job Requirements:

Educational background in Law; bachelors \\ Masters degrees

• A lawyer with at least two years of experience in similar field
• Understanding of international human rights and local laws.
• Personal qualities: Team player, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well.
• Fluency in Arabic required; English preferred.

Desired:

• At least 1 year of NGO experience
• Good computer skills such as: MS Word, Excel, Power point.
• The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons
• IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.
• The International Rescue Committee encourages women to work with us to reach the neediest people in need of humanitarian assistance, such as women, widows and children. We are committed to providing a decent work environment that takes into account the needs of women in the workplace, such as maternity leave and safety protocols that take into account the special needs of women in the field.