Job Title : Project Coordinator
Department : Displacement, Movement and Inclusion (DMI)
Compensation: Rs14 - Rs.16 Lakhs Per Annum
Location : Delhi
Reporting to : Project Coordinator
Start Date : 1st November 2026
About MAP
The Margins to Access Project (MAP),An Initiative of The Ara Trust formerly known as Migration & Asylum Project, was founded in 2013 to democratize access to justice for migrants and forcibly displaced persons in India who face critical legal protection gaps. MAP builds community awareness, provides legal first response, and strengthens institutional accountability to address the impacts of migration, displacement, and gender-based violence (GBV). Since its inception, MAP has assisted more than 25,000 marginalized individuals, including survivors of GBV, torture, and labour exploitation. MAP is a women-led organization, and over 75% of its clients are women.
MAP is a growing organization of 35+ staff, dedicated to inclusivity, accountability, mutual respect, and professional growth. For more information, please visit www.maplawcentre.org.
The Position:
The Project Coordinator – Law and Gender will play a key role in leading and supporting MAP's legal and gender justice programming under the Displacement, Movement and Inclusion (DMI) vertical.
The position will provide legal and technical leadership for programme implementation, capacity building, legal research, strategic interventions, partnerships, advocacy, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and documentation. The Project Coordinator will work closely with communities, grassroots justice actors, lawyers, legal service institutions, government stakeholders, civil society organizations, and other actors within the justice ecosystem.
The role requires a strong understanding of gender justice, women's rights, access to justice, and relevant legal and policy frameworks. The Project Coordinator will also contribute to strengthening community-rooted and gender-responsive approaches to legal empowerment and institutional accountability.
This is a full-time, on-site position with periodic travel to other state locations.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Project Management & Oversight
- Provide legal and technical oversight legal expertise, analytical guidance and thought leadershipfor the implementation of project activities, ensuring that interventions are grounded in relevant national and international legal and policy frameworks and aligned with project objectives.
- Represent the organisation at relevant meetings, consultations, conferences and other forums, including making presentations and contributing legal and policy expertise.
- Travel as required for official purposes in accordance with project and organisational needs.
Outreach & Stakeholder Engagement
- Conduct legal capacity-building and training for grassroots justice actors, including paralegal volunteers, lawyers, litigators, community-based justice actors and other relevant stakeholders across the States in which the organisation operates, with a focus on women’s rights, access to justice and available legal remedies.
- Design and conduct legal workshops, trainings and awareness sessions for relevant stakeholders and communities, translating complex legal and policy frameworks into accessible and practical guidance.
- Oversee community and stakeholder outreach and engagement, ensuring that legal needs, barriers to justice and community experiences are appropriately documented and incorporated into programme design, implementation and advocacy.
Partnerships & Networks
- Develop and maintain networks and partnerships with relevant government departments and officials, legal professionals, justice-sector actors, civil society organisations, community-based organisations and other stakeholders to strengthen access to justice and implementation of project activities.
- Build effective collaboration with institutional and justice-sector actors relevant to the project, including legal services providers, lawyers, courts and tribunals, statutory bodies and other accountability institutions, as appropriate.
- Engage with accountability and redress mechanisms, including relevant UN mechanisms and domestic judicial, quasi-judicial and administrative bodies, and support the preparation of complaints, petitions, submissions, reports and other legal or advocacy interventions.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
- Contribute to monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) by developing and tracking relevant legal and programme indicators, documenting outputs and outcomes, analysing emerging trends and lessons, and using evidence and learning to strengthen project implementation and strategy.
- Maintain high-quality documentation and reporting systems, including timely preparation of narrative and technical reports, case studies, outcome documentation and other project deliverables, in accordance with donor and organisational requirements.
- Contribute to project review and learning processes, including assessing the effectiveness of legal interventions, identifying challenges and adaptations, and documenting promising practices and models that can inform future programming and advocacy.
- Undertake other duties and responsibilities as reasonably assigned in furtherance of the organisation’s objectives and its work with the communities it serves.
The Project Coordinator will report directly to the senior management, and will be part of MAP’s
programme leadership team. They will supervise and provide strategic and operational guidance to a team of 3–4 lawyers, ensuring alignment of research, monitoring, and partnership initiatives with the programme’s Theory of Change and overall organisational objectives.
Qualifications & Experience
- Graduate degree in Law, with postgraduation in relevant discipline preferred;
- A minimum of 6 to 10 years of work experience familiarity with Refugee laws pertaining to sexual and gender-based violence and institutional strengthening;
- Experience engaging with marginalised communities and working with grassroots support structures;
- Excellent research, coordination, and documentation skills;
- Supervisory experience with PLVs, field teams, or community workers;
- Understanding of gender-based violence responses and community justice mechanisms;
- High-quality written and verbal communication skills (Hindi and English);
- Ability to develop strong interpersonal skills, and engage with all levels in the organisation;
- Strong work ethic and attention to detail in all aspects of work;
- Creative thinker and problem solver;
- Consummate professional in discretion, discernment, and confidentiality.
Why MAP?
Joining MAP offers an opportunity to contribute to broader legal and institutional change,helping build justice systems that are more accessible, accountable, responsive, and grounded in the experiences of the communities they serve. This role is an opportunity to work at the intersection of law, gender, and access to justice, while contributing to meaningful change within India’s justice ecosystem. The incumbent will combine legal expertise, litigation experience, research, capacity building, community engagement, and institutional collaboration to address systemic barriers faced by women and marginalised communities. As part of the DMI team, they will play a critical role in strengthening legal responses, building the capacities of grassroots justice actors, and advancing community-rooted and gender-responsive approaches to justice.
Application Process
Interested candidates are requested to complete the Application Form in the given link: https://forms.gle/yEq54N3S5MEYhJan6
The deadline for receiving applications is 5:00 pm (IST) on 18th September 2026. If you have any queries, please write to recruitments@aratrust.in with the subject line “Application for the post of Project Coordinator DMI - Delhi.
MAP’s recruitment process typically takes 6 to 8 weeks. Any change in the timelines will be communicated to the shortlisted candidates.
Due to limited capacity, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, and we are unable to provide individual feedback to candidates.
MAP is an equal opportunity employer.
Women across marginalized communities and gender minorities are encouraged to apply.