Stiftung Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS)
Basel
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Legal Intern with MLaw or BLaw 50-60% (fixed-term employment for at least six months)
- Publication date:28 October 2025
- Workload:50 – 60%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Basel
Job summary
HEKS employs over 1500 staff across 35 countries. Join us to make a difference!
Tasks
- Conduct legal inquiries and case clarifications.
- Support lawyers with submissions to authorities.
- Provide legal advice both in person and via phone.
Skills
- Law degree with interest in asylum and immigration law.
- Excellent written communication skills required.
- Strong oral language skills, especially in French and English.
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About the job
HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural living conditions are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.
Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
Legal Intern with MLaw or BLaw 50-60% (fixed-term employment for at least six months)
The BAS Counseling Center for Asylum Seekers in the Basel region provides legal advice and representation in asylum and immigration law to asylum seekers and persons with completed asylum procedures residing in Basel-Stadt. BAS is responsible for representing asylum seekers assigned to the canton of BS in the extended procedure. The legal advisors file complaints when refugee status is in question, procedural errors exist, or a deportation of the affected persons is unreasonable. In BAS's open consultations, persons from the asylum sector receive low-threshold and free personal legal advice without prior appointment. BAS also accompanies/represents persons in hardship or reconsideration requests, family reunification matters, or travel and canton change requests.
To support our motivated team, we are looking for a cooperative and committed person as of March 1, 2026
- Legal clarifications and individual case assessments
- Support of lawyers in legal submissions to the Federal Administrative Court, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), or the cantonal authorities
- Telephone and personal legal consultations
- Law studies (with interest in asylum and immigration law issues)
- Very good written expression
- Joy and sensitivity in dealing with people from different cultures
- Very good oral foreign language skills, especially French and English, other languages are an advantage
- Flexibility, independence, and high resilience
- Versatile, challenging, and meaningful work at the interface of law and social issues
- Committed and competent colleagues
- Workplace in the center of Basel
