Capacity Building Specialist (Civil Society)New

Designs and delivers bilingual legal-awareness training for civil-society organisations across Sri Lanka, building practical knowledge of national-security, NGO and online-safety laws while strengthening governance, compliance, digital safety, risk management and civic-space resilience.

• Design and deliver six online awareness sessions in Tamil and Sinhala on the PSTA, NGO Act and Online Safety Act
• Develop curricula, session plans, presentations, case studies, exercises and facilitator materials
• Create compliance checklists, frequently asked questions and scenario-based discussion guides
• Facilitate participatory discussions, breakout exercises, polls and peer learning
• Assess learning through pre-session and post-session evaluations and participant feedback
• Report activities, engagement, outcomes, recommendations and lessons after each session and at assignment completion
• Coordinate planning, implementation, reporting and quality assurance with the Programme Manager

• Bachelor's degree in law, human rights, criminal justice, governance, public policy or a relevant discipline
• At least seven years of professional experience in legal practice, access to justice, human rights, governance or protection programming
• Experience designing legal-awareness or capacity-building initiatives for civil-society organisations
• Experience with Sri Lanka's legal and regulatory environment affecting civic space
• Experience developing curricula, learning materials, assessments and training reports
• Fluent English, Sinhala and Tamil
• Proficiency with Google Meet and online learning tools

• Advanced degree in a relevant field
• Attorney-at-Law qualification from Sri Lanka Law College
• Experience with UN agencies, international organisations or donor-funded programmes
• Experience with grassroots or community-based civil-society organisations
• Experience advising on civic space, digital rights, governance or regulatory compliance

• Training Design
• Adult Learning
• Virtual Facilitation
• Legal Literacy
• Human Rights
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Analysis
• Curriculum Development
• Learning Assessment
• Stakeholder Management

• Google Meet
• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Mandatory pre-service courses take approximately four hours and are unpaid