Job Vacancies

1. Job Title: Civil Litigation Assistant / State Attorney

Job responsibilities

• Assist in the collection, preparation and submission of files and briefs to courts and other parties regarding government representation in court;
• Manage all issues related to court summons;
• Set up and constantly update an electronic and physical filing system for the Directorate;
• Assist in the preparation of out of court settlement and payment contract and submit full file to the finance department for requisite payment;
• Collect and manage copies of all relevant court rulings;
• Assist in the identification and information collection regarding suing employees who cause loss to government;
• Collect court judgments and forward them to concerned government institutions for their execution;
• Monitor Government judgments execution and execute them where it is needed
• Collect periodic report on judgement execution regarding Government institutions
• Collect and compile periodic reports from other institutions with Attorney General’s mandate to represent government in courts;
• Prepare Directorate's periodic draft reports;
• Perform any other duty as it may be assigned to him/her by the supervisor;

Minimum qualifications

• Master's Degree in Law with 1 Years of relevant experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Law with 3 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Resource management skills

• Analytical skills

• Problem solving skills

• Decision making skills

• Time management skills

• Risk management skills

• Results oriented

• Digital literacy skills

• Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of all is an advantage

• Knowledge of government contract law

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2. Job Title: Director of Access to Justice Coordination Unit

Job responsibilities

• Organize appropriate and relevant Monitoring and Evaluation visits to Access to Justice in districts;
• Collect and consolidate monthly and other reports on Access to Justice activities;
• Ensure the provision of quality legal aid service to the public;
• Assess training needs of the Mediation committees;
• Conduct and supervise training sessions of Mediators;
• Distributes materials, documents and work tools to Mediation committees to facilitate Mediators in their activities;
• Organize, participate and report annually Legal Aid Week activities;
• Prepare and update annual and quarterly action plans of the division in collaboration with the Planning Unit;
• Supervise staff of the Unit;" Perform any other duty as it may be assigned to him/her by the supervisor;

NB. Possession of diploma in legal practice is mandatory.

Minimum qualifications

• Master's Degree in Law with 2 Years of relevant experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Law with 3 Years of relevant experience

Required certificates

• Possession of Diploma in legal practice is mandatory

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Analytical skills

• Problem solving skills

• Decision making skills

• Networking skills

• Leadership skills

• Mentoring and coaching skills

• Time management skills

• Risk management skills

• Performance management skills

• Results oriented

• Digital literacy skills

• Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage.

• Knowledge on legal Aid procedure and practice

• Knowledge of gender Basic violence

• Knowledge of court processes and procedures

• Knowledge of rwanda's community justice system

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