Vacancy at JRS Yogyakarta: Legal Officer

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international non-governmental organization with a mission is to accompany, serve, and advocate the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people. JRS undertakes services at national and regional levels with the support of an international office in Rome. Founded in November 1980 as a work of the Society of Jesus, JRS programs are found in over 50 countries, providing assistance to refugees in refugee camps, to people displaced within their own country, and to asylum-seekers in cities and held in detention. The main areas of work in Indonesia are in the fields of Pastoral, Education, Advocacy and Social Services to asylum seekers and refugees in urban areas and immigration detention centers and IDPs.

JRS is also very much concerned with Advocacy and Human Rights work. This involves ensuring that refugees are afforded their full rights while in exile and during repatriation as guaranteed by the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and working to strengthen the protection afforded to Internally
Displaced People (IDPs). It extends to lobbying for and promoting greater international protection and human rights legislation, either through participation in international campaigns and coalitions or through membership of international for a, such as the UN Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC).

JRS Indonesia is seeking 1 qualified person for the JRS National Office based at Yogyakarta as Legal Officer.  Please find further information on responsibility and qualification etc. of the position in: http://www.jrs.or.id/web/vacancy/vacancy3.htm

Please and fill in the application form attached (just click ‘JRS form application’) to apply for.

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