Key Responsibilities

• Strategically lead the justice interventions team track and document casework trends, lessons and experiences to inform justice system strengthening interventions.
• Lead a strong team that embodies IJM’s spiritual rhythms, core values and efficiently and effectively delivers on their mandate.
• Recruit, mentor, lead and support the investigations and legal teams.
• Develop and implement strategies to ensure sufficient case referrals to IJM.
• Provide leadership and direction to the Justice Systems Interventions (JSI) team to ensure that they meet program goals in line with the IJM global 2030 vision.
• Ensure compliance with IJM’s budgetary, ethics and professionalism standards, and IJM casework best practices.
• Develop and implement casework goals and strategies, budgets, staffing plans, monitoring and evaluation metrics for our established casework program goals.
• Develop and maintain strong strategic partnerships to deliver justice to our clients.
• Coordinate meetings with partners and power actors to advance IJM’s theory of change and casework goals.
• Provide expert casework input and resources for the design, development, delivery and ongoing monitoring and evaluation of our justice strengthening programs.
• Lead the JSI team in supporting the implementation of Partnership, Policy & Advocacy (PPA) program activities with government partners, specifically by delivery of training, lobbying and advocacy events, partner learning and sharing sessions.
• Develop strategies for sharing client and IJM stories to support program goals.
• Ensure that IJM and its agents comply with all relevant laws and professional ethics.
• Assist in hosting guests, visitors, and volunteers.
• Monitor the staffing needs of the JSI department and devise strategies for maintaining work-life balance to ensure that the JSI team is healthy and resilient.
• Design training material to build capacity for various IJM partners.
• Track up-to-date case-related data on paper and in the IJM data management system (JDS), ensuring the accuracy and usability of the data.
• Maintain confidentiality of privileged and sensitive information.
• Perform any additional tasks assigned by the Country Director/Supervisor.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in law, Business Administration, Project Management, Public Policy and Administration or any other related Social Science.
• Bachelor’s degree in law with a valid practicing certificate.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in court room advocacy and at least 5 years successfully leading a team.
• Strong ability to achieve results through a multi-disciplinary team.
• A proven leader with strong emotional intelligence.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to present complex data and information in a clear and compelling manner to a wide range of stakeholders.