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Pakistani Deputy Legal/Policy Advisor

DAI
Posted: 14 Jan 2009
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  • Experience: 2 to 4 years
  • Job Location: Islamabad
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Department / Job Category: Legal officers & Practitioners
  • Last Date: 13 Feb 2009
DAI
DAI works at the vanguard of international development, uniting technical excellence, consummate project management, and uncompromising customer service to solve our clients’ most complex problems. Since 1970, DAI has worked in 150 developing and transition countries, providing comprehensive development solutions in the areas of crisis mitigation and recovery, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS, avian influenza control, and water and natural resources management. Clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and host-country governments.

Objective:

DAI seeks Pakistani nationals to serve as a Deputy Senior Legal/Policy Advisor for an anticipated USAID-funded Strengthening Justice Project (SJP) in Pakistan. The program, soon to be tendered, will be a 3-year Rule of Law activity designed to support the strengthening of the Pakistani justice sector. SJP will focus on achieving progress in judicial efficiency, transparency, accessibility, independence and accountability. Its two primary objectives are:
a) to strengthen the institutional capacities of the judiciary, and
b) to build capacity through legal training and enhanced professionalism.

The Deputy Legal/Policy Advisor will support DAI to function within the complex, politically charged, fluid legal/policy environment for judicial reform in Pakistan, develop effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders in the various branches of government and civil society, establish information linkages with counterparts and other USAID and donor Contractors, facilitate judicial stakeholder legal/policy reform dialogue, oversee the public awareness/outreach campaigns and supervise the grant program.  The Deputy Advisor will be based in Islamabad but with travel anticipated to Punjab, NWFP, or another temporary location.

Requirements:
  • A law degree from an accredited law school.
  • Ten years of relevant professional and progressively responsible experience.
  • A thorough knowledge of the concepts, principles and issues in the areas of legal/policy (preferably judicial) reform.
  • Excellent writing skills.
  • Legal drafting skills/experience.
  • Demonstrated track record of coalition building and furnishing information and advice with detachment and objectivity.
  • Successful examples of developing and implementing legal/policy reform strategies.
  • Some experience and expertise in public awareness campaigns, preferably with the judiciary.
  • Knowledge of Pakistani development perspectives, objectives and priorities; the key institutions and personalities in the three branches of the Pakistani Government desirable.  
DAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.




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