Millennium DPI PartnersVacancy AnnouncementPosition: Legal Education & Legal Aid Senior Expert General Description of Position:• The Legal Education and Legal Aid Senior Expert (hereafter the “Employee”) will support and coordinate Feteh’s legal education and legal aid related activities. S/he will be responsible for liaising between Feteh and the Ethiopian institutions involved in Legal Education and Legal Aid in the planning and follow up of all related project activities.Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:The Employee will undertake work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for Millennium DPI in support of the Feteh Activity pursuant to MDPI’s contract with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) and reporting jointly to the Chief of Party (COP) and DCOP, the Employee shall assume the following specific responsibilities for the length of his/her employment with Millennium DPI:• Support legal academic institutions in conducting research to promote law reform advocacy;• Support the establishment and operation of the National Association of Law Schools to enhance standardization of legal education and strengthen legal aid centers improving access to justice;• Support and organize conferences on rule of law and access to justice;• Support and follow-up any other activities aimed at ensuring quality of legal education. promotion of practical skills and training of law students;• Support the publication of research works in support of legal reform, legal aid and legal education reform initiatives;• Coordinate with relevant counterparts in organizing and conducting public consultations, workshops, training programs, etc.;• Participate in the development of terms of reference, scopes of work, memoranda of understanding, manuals, and other technical documents;• Support local and international consultants engaged by Feteh;• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with partners and stakeholders and nurture effective strategic partnerships to identify changes in priorities, new reform initiatives and strategies to effectively implement Feteh’s activities;• Collaborate with the Communications and Public Outreach Coordinator in gathering information for Feteh’s social media and in drafting Feteh’s success stories;• Read and understand clearly Feteh’s work plan and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan, and work closely with the MEL Coordinator to ensure that all legal education and legal aid activities are carefully measured and clearly communicated to USAID;• Be ultimately responsible for the success of Feteh in executing all legal education and legal aid activities in each annual work plan;• Actively participate in meetings and contribute to the development and implementation of annual work plans and decisions by the management to achieve the objectives of the Activity;• Produce written material on a monthly basis or on request of the COP/DCOP to ensure that Feteh’s quarterly and annual reports contain a clear description of all details of legal education and legal aid activities with the Ethiopian institutions;• Manage and coordinate any staff under his/her supervision;• Perform other duties as assigned by the COP/DCOP.

Law Degree

Job Requirement:
• Law degree, and preferably also an LLM degree.
• At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in legal education and/or legal aid, including as a legal academic, researcher, public prosecutor, judge, attorney, legal expert etc.
• Very good background and relevant experience in supporting institutional capacity building activities,
• Broad understanding of the legal system and current reform initiatives in Ethiopia.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to cultivate relationships with relevant Ethiopian government institutions.
• High degree of organization, professionalism, integrity, trustworthiness and flexibility.
• Fluency in both written and spoken Amharic and English.
• Technology-literate – PC skills, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet.

5-10 years

• Please send your CV by the following email: procurement@feteh-activity.net until June 19th 2020.