Legal Intern supporting Southwire’s legal team with research and writing across multiple practice areas. Assisting with legal projects and gaining real - world experience in a corporate environment.
About the role
- Legal Services Coordinator leading a team providing legal aid and support for refugees. Overseeing legal representation and ensuring compliance with standards in Thai immigration policies.
Responsibilities
- The Legal Services Coordinator leads AAT’s legal services team, ensuring high-quality legal aid to refugees and asylum seekers with proper adherence to the organization’s protocols and procedures.
- Oversee the legal services team in Bangkok and in Mae Sot offices.
- This role combines direct legal representation, program management, case management and capacity building to strengthen refugee rights protection in Thailand.
- Supervise the teams of Legal Status, Protection, Paralegal, Screening and Intake/interpreter, Volunteer Legal Advocates; and the Mae Sot Protection team.
- Lead recruitment, training, and professional development initiatives.
- Ensure the effective legal counseling and legal representation of refugee clients in UNHCR’s RSD process, the Thai Government Regulation on NSM, and any other emerging legal status processes.
- Interview clients to understand their claim and analyze the screening document to make recommendations on further steps.
- Review legal briefs, country of origin research, and declarations.
- Oversee the provision of full legal representation and short services for legal status.
- Implement protection strategies under Thai legislation.
- Drive strategic development through monitor legal and policy developments at local, national, and international levels.
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge of refugee law and protection standards
- Experience in legal program management and team leadership
- Strong understanding of UNHCR procedures and Thai immigration policies
- Proven track record in advocacy and stakeholder engagement
- Graduate degree in human rights law, public policy, public administration or other relevant degree
- Thorough knowledge of the context of refugees in Thailand, including both national and international legal frameworks
- Thorough comprehension and knowledge of RSD and NSM process and case management
- Demonstrated ability to comprehend and develop creative responses to frequently changing political and legal environments
- Experience in team management including staff and volunteers
- Strong planning skills and the ability to manage many disparate priorities simultaneously
- Awareness of the impact of gender, nationality, sexual orientation, legal status and other personal characteristics may have on access to rights and the ability to promote impartiality
- Familiarity and comfort working with a multicultural and international environment
- Professional fluency in English.
- A minimum 5-year of increasingly high-level experience in refugee response or related fields
- Experience in working with and provide legal support to vulnerable population
- Experience in review/analysis of legal documents
- Experience in program management
- Experience in community legal empowerment.
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working hours
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