Legal Expert / Consultant

Confidential

Islamabad , Pakistan

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The Legal Expert / Consultant serves as a senior advisor responsible for providing expert legal guidance and technical support to a national human rights organization implementing a project aimed at strengthening advocacy for womens rights and protection. This role focuses on designing, developing, and delivering gender-responsive legal training curricula and materials, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and practical application aligned with current laws and international human rights standards. The consultant will play a pivotal role in enhancing the professional capacity of young female lawyers across multiple provinces through structured learning programmes and a digital legal toolkit. The position requires deep expertise in gender-based violence laws, international human rights instruments, and survivor-centred legal practice within the Pakistani legal context. The consultant develops participant-centered training agendas, handbooks, facilitator guides, and assessment tools while ensuring trauma-informed and survivor-oriented approaches. Although the consultant will not manage a team, close collaboration with project leadership and coordination with training and advocacy staff is essential for quality assurance, scheduling, and content delivery throughout the assignment.
Responsibilities

Design a comprehensive, standardized training curriculum and detailed session plans for a series of five specialized capacity-building programmes focused on gender-based violence laws, international human rights instruments, survivor-centred legal representation, legal ethics, and digital advocacy.
Develop participant handbooks and facilitator guides that incorporate supporting case-law, procedural safeguards, and trauma-informed methodologies tailored to provincial legal variations.
Create practical pre- and post-training assessment tools, including group exercises, moot-court scenarios, and role-plays, to effectively measure learning outcomes for participants.
Provide expert legal content and technical quality assurance for a digital legal toolkit encompassing relevant laws, survivor-centred practices, referral directories, and procedural guides.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge and application of Pakistani statutory provisions, case law, and provincial legal frameworks to ensure the accuracy and relevance of all training materials and knowledge products.
Collaborate closely with organizational leadership and project teams to align curriculum development and training delivery with project goals and timelines, responding to review feedback and coordinating schedules.
Uphold ethical standards including survivor-centred, trauma-informed, and do-no-harm principles, ensuring confidentiality of case information and adherence to safeguarding and code-of-conduct policies throughout the assignment.
Prepare and submit all deliverables for review and approval according to the agreed schedule, including inception notes, agendas, curriculum frameworks, training handbooks, assessment tools, and final reports.
Contribute to knowledge transfer by sharing expertise during trainings and supporting capacity building efforts to establish a sustainable Women Human Rights Champions network in the target provinces.
Ensure all developed materials remain the exclusive property of the organization and donor, maintaining confidentiality and intellectual property protocols.