Application Form: Collaborations Legal Officer

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Equality and Diversity Monitoring

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Suitability For This Position

Please detail your suitability for this position under the relevant headings below stating when and where skills and experience were gained. This is the most important part of the application form. It is the section where applicants let us know about their suitability for the position. Applicants are shortlisted on the basis of the information that is provided here. It is insufficient to simply state that one has experience, we require details.

Criteria 1 – The African human rights system and normative advocacy *

Outline your experience working with or within the African human rights system. Describe the organs and mechanisms you have engaged, the normative or standard-setting processes you contributed to, and the specific legal or advocacy outputs you produced. State when and where this experience was gained and what your own contribution was.

Criteria 2 – Anti-rights actors, contested rights, and defending regional mechanisms *

Outline your experience of working on contested rights and of countering anti-rights actors within the African context. Refer to any experience relevant to processes such as the AU Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (CEVAWG), the draft African Charter on Family Values and Sovereignty, or comparable regressive normative developments. Describe your understanding of anti-rights strategies, discourse and tools, and give examples of how you have responded to attempts to co-opt, capture or subdue progressive mandates.

Criteria 3 – Legal writing, and repackaging technical knowledge for different audiences *

Outline your experience of producing written work to a near-final standard with minimal supervision, and of repackaging technical legal or normative content for different audiences. Describe the types of documents you have authored, who the intended audiences were, and the level of review your drafts required before they were finalised. Please be prepared to submit a writing sample of which you are the principal author.

Criteria 4 - Partner communications, coalitions and strengthening civil society. *

Outline your experience of leading communications and relationships with partners, coalitions, networks or movements. Describe the collaborations you have managed or coordinated, your role in convening and sustaining them, and how you maintained engagement between formal meetings or events. Include any experience of supporting civil society organisations or nascent movements to strengthen their capacity, and of navigating disagreement or conflict between partners.

Criteria 5 - Public advocacy and representation *

Outline your experience of representing an organisation or coalition publicly. Give examples of speaking at convenings, webinars, side events, press engagements, member-state or institutional meetings, and describe the audience, what you were advocating for, and the outcome. Include any experience of speaking on subject matter that was contentious or where the audience was hostile or divided.

Criteria 6- Managing concurrent projects and priorities in a fast-moving environment, with minimal supervision *

Outline your experience of managing projects or workstreams from end to end while carrying several competing priorities at once. Describe the systems you use to plan, track and report on your work, how you decide what to prioritise when circumstances change quickly, and give an example of a time you had to respond to a sudden opportunity or crisis without compromising your existing commitments. Indicate the degree of supervision under which you were working.

DISABILITY

If you require any special arrangements to be made to assist you if called for interview, please let us know in advance of the interview.

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Conflict of Interest

ISLA asks that all candidates, existing staff and volunteers declare and disclose any activity or association or other factor which may generate real or perceived conflicts of interest or duties which would otherwise affect their ability to perform the functions, role or responsibilities which they hold or for which they hold or for which they are a candidate. In regards to candidates or new appointments, ISLA expects to discuss such matters at the interview stage of the recruitment process. Have you engaged in any activity or had any association, or are there any factors that may generate a real or perceived conflict with ISLA’s work or raise a security concern or otherwise negatively affect your ability to perform the functions of this post?

Have you engaged in any activity or had any association, or are there any factors that may generate a real or perceived conflict with ISLA’s work or raise a security concern or otherwise negatively affect your ability to perform the functions of this post? *

Criminal Convictions

Do you have any unspent criminal convictions or bind-overs, any cautions, warnings or reprimands? *

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About Us

Founded in 2014, the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) is a Pan-African and feminist initiative with a timely remit: to strengthen strategic human rights litigation across the African continent. Essentially, we aim to change the way that strategic litigation is used so as to enable broader access to justice and to support those who seek to hold states accountable for violations of women’s human rights and sexual rights.

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+27 11 338 9028

Fax: +27 11 338 9029

Address: 87 de Korte Street,
South Point Corner, 7th Floor Braamfontein, 2017 Gauteng, South Africa

Application Form: Collaborations Legal Officer

Personal Details

Equality and Diversity Monitoring

Suitability For This Position

DISABILITY

Referees

Referee 1

Referee 2

Referee 3

Conflict of Interest

Criminal Convictions

Verification of Information

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