📢 Asylum Access Thailand (AAT) is seeking one individual with lived experience of forced displacement to join our team of community paralegals and work with the refugee LGBTQI+ community. 🏳️🌈
🎯 Main Responsibilities:
• 📚 Attend training on various topics, including laws and legal mechanisms, paralegal code of conduct, etc
• 🤝 Join paralegal team meetings
• 🏥 Conduct legal clinics for the LGBTQI+ refugee communities
• 🔄 Share information between the community and AAT office as required
• ⚖️ Assist with legal casework: conduct basic screening, documentation, act as mediator, visit clients, refer cases to legal advisor, and provide legal basic information
• 🌐 Maintain a good relationship with and network within the community
• 🔄 Share information between the community and AAT office as required
👤 Ideal Candidate:
• 🏳️🌈 From the LGBTQI+ communities in Bangkok
• 👤 Lived experience of forced displacement
• 🗨 Fluent in English OR Thai
• 🎓 Awareness of LGBTQI+ definitions, terms, and concepts, in the local refugee context
• 💪 Experience working with vulnerable groups of people
• 🧠 Have problem-solving skill and proactively follow up with the community
• 🌈 Supportive of diversity and inclusion
📩 Please contact thailand@asylumaccess.org with your CV if you are interested. Please also explain how you meet the position requirements and why you are interested in the position.
⚠️ Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for follow-up
💰 Please note: A stipend will be provided for this volunteer position.
