We are seeking two experienced solicitors or barristers to deliver casework on maternity and parental employment rights.  The role will deliver advice and casework to pregnant women and new mothers to resolve disputes, negotiate settlement agreements and, in limited circumstances, undertake litigation. 

The role is part of an innovative new service which we are delivering in partnership with the charity, YESS Law.  All women receiving casework will be offered a trained, peer supporter to provide emotional support.

We are looking for solicitors or barristers with a minimum of one year’s post-qualification experience, a thorough knowledge of employment and discrimination law and a thorough knowledge of maternity and parental rights in the workplace. We are looking for someone with experience in delivering casework in a related area of law, excellent written and spoken communication skills and a commitment to women’s rights.

The posts add to 1.8FTE.  We are open to appointing a full time and a part-time staff member (0.8FTE) or three part time staff members.  Thursday is a core day for all posts. The posts are working out of our offices in Finsbury Park, London.  We are open to office based or remote working. We are flexible about start/finish time and days worked, within normal business hours. 

This is a three year post.  We would ideally like the posts to commence on 3 August 2020.

Please send us an application outlining how you meet the selection criteria and your CV. Applications close 10 June 2020. Interviews will be held remotely 29 and 30 June.

We are seeking an experienced advice service manager to deliver and supervise advice and training on maternity and parental rights at work, maternity pay and welfare benefits.  The role will manage Maternity Action’s Maternity Rights Advice Lines (national and regional services) and develop management systems across the other advice services.  The role will also develop new advice and training services. Our advice services operate remotely.

We are looking for a solicitor, barrister or adviser with thorough knowledge of either welfare benefits for low income families or employment and discrimination law. We are looking for someone with experience in managing a specialist service in a related area of law, understanding of quality assurance techniques, experience in preparing evaluation reports and reports to funders, excellent written and spoken communication skills and a commitment to women’s rights.

The posts is 28 hours per week.  We will also consider applicants who can work at least 21 hours.  The post can be delivered from our office in Finsbury Park, London or home-based from any location in the UK.  There is a core day (Thursday) and we are otherwise flexible about start/finish time and days worked, within normal business hours. 

This is a three year post ending 31 July 2023.

Please send us an application outlining how you meet the selection criteria and your CV. Applications close 10 June 2020. Interviews will be held remotely on 22 and 23 June 2020.

Main purpose and description of the role:

The Grant Manager, Energy will play a significant role within the Programmes and Operations team at FILE.  This role will primarily focus on managing FILE’s expanding grant portfolio which seeks to deliver a socially responsible transition towards a net zero emissions economy.  This is an exciting opportunity to support world-leading non-profit partners in delivering strategic legal interventions to impact.  

The Grant Manager, Energy will be one of the first staff members of FILE, and hence will play an extremely formative role in shaping FILE’s grant-making, due diligence and reporting processes.  The successful candidate will help to lead the design and delivery of protocols and grant management processes to ensure that FILE’s philanthropic products are of the highest quality and consistent across the organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly rigorous philanthropic professional with outstanding communication and quantitative skills, keen to be part of an exciting, growing environmental organisation. 

The Exciting Opportunity

The Grant Manager, Energy will be responsible for:

Portfolio Management

• Management of FILE’s Energy grant portfolio throughout the grants cycle, including initial concept formation, managing grant delivery and key partnerships, and impact/progress reporting to FILE’s Board and donors.
• Supporting partners in project/pipeline planning and delivery, including connecting the dots, sequencing priorities and developing, and ensuring delivery of, project workplan with milestones.
• Provision of oversight and management of the overall Energy portfolio budget.  This includes supporting grant partners in developing and delivering against individual grant budgets, ensuring that projects are adequately resourced and funds are spent in accordance with project objectives.
• Effective monitoring of the progress and impact of projects and grants, including managing reporting requirements, facilitating review and feedback process and enabling robust and timely reporting to donors.
• Ensuring cross-portfolio knowledge learning and sharing, to ensure that partners within the Energy portfolio benefit from all learnings.

Strategy Development and Delivery

• Contributing to the strategic direction of the FILE Foundation, by co-developing a strategic Energy grant portfolio and shaping high-level goals.
• Working with the Strategy and Law team, supporting the development, validation and due diligence of proposals from potential partners, preparing recommendations to the FILE Board and donors.
• Translation of strategy for partners at project level, ensuring that KPIs and deliverables are well aligned with and provide learnings for the portfolio.

Partnership management and donor reporting

• Building trusted partnerships with key partners both within and beyond the grant portfolio, growing FILE’s stakeholder network.
• Facilitation of close collaboration amongst grantees through managing effective communication channels and coordinating engagement, enabling consistency across FILE’s projects and portfolios.

• Using the portfolio results framework, KPIs and deliverables, submission of donor reports in relation to the Energy Portfolio on a timely basis, under the supervision of the Director, Programmes and Operations.
• Content input for the Energy portfolio for fundraising documents and other donor relations activities, as required by FILE’s Executive Team

Operations:

• Together with the Finance and Operations team members, enabling the implementation of grant management systems and maintenance of relevant templates and tools.
• Ensuring that FILE’s overarching budget and strategy reflects and guides the Energy portfolio.
• Maintaining open and professional relationships with team members, promotion of a strong team spirit and provision of oversight and mentorship, including potential line management of Analysts and interns.

 The Talented Individual

Qualifications & Experience

• A university degree in a related field including law, political science or environmental science. A postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline is desirable.
• Deep understanding of the energy, with understanding of legal strategies or advocacy desirable.
• Outstanding partnership management skills, with the ability to establish and manage collaborative internal and external partnerships.  Existing networks in the non-profit climate and energy field desirable.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to assimilate and digest large volumes of information.
• Experience in Grant Management, and implementing and managing grant-making protocols level is required, experience in the Energy field would be desirable.
• Excellent budget management and donor reporting skills
• Outstanding and demonstrable English written and communication skills.  You will be able to present information in a compelling way through proposals, memos and PowerPoint presentations.  Knowledge of other languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin advantageous.
• Ability to work unsupervised, a motivated self-starter, with strong problem solving and multi-tasking skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, strong organisational and project management skills and the ability to be flexible as priorities and needs change.

We are looking to recruit 2 Legal Counsels to join our Legal Team and assist the Deputy General Counsel to support the organisation across a broad range of legal issues and encourage applications from all levels of seniority and from experience in all legal disciplines.

The Legal & Compliance team at Save the Children Fund (SCUK) provides advice, support and representation on legal, legal compliance and information security issues, supporting delivery of SCUK's strategy, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements both by SCUK and its subsidiaries, and advising on good governance and the effective management of legal risk throughout the organisation. We work with other departments within SCUK, with Save the Children International (the international programming arm of Save the Children), and with other members of the Save the Children global movement.

The role of the Legal Counsel is to provide pragmatic and proactive legal, regulatory, compliance and commercial support and advice to colleagues across SCUK, and to advise and support on governance and company secretarial matters. We will be seeking a complementary range of technical specialisms and are interested in lawyers from all backgrounds (charity, commercial, corporate, employment, litigation and others).  We have recently adopted agile ways of working across SCUK and are looking for lawyers who can work with multi-disciplinary teams across a broad range of areas from fundraising, UK and international programming to policy and advocacy. 

Working in over 100 countries, Save the Children does whatever it takes to create breakthroughs in the way the world treats children. We have made enormous progress for children in the last few years and have ambitious targets to build on this momentum. Our Legal & Compliance Team supports the organisation to meet its goals. As well as advising on all aspects of the charity's work, from our fundraising and campaigning to our UK and overseas programming, our team also sets the standard for compliance, data protection and information security, to ensure that we meet our ongoing targets. We are leaders in creating innovative partnerships with the commercial sector and other agencies. You will have the opportunity to advise on these and other commercial agreements, including fundraising, IP/IT and procurement contracts, and to ensure the Save the Children brand is protected in the UK.

As an expert in your field, you'll advise staff on legal issues and risks, including corporate and charity governance, fundraising, marketing, data protection, trade marks, copyright, defamation and litigation matters. You'll also work closely with our colleagues at Save the Children International regarding our overseas programmes.

We see you being an England & Wales qualified solicitor or barrister with a sound knowledge of contract and commercial law. Previous experience of charity and fundraising law and practice would be desirable, but not essential. This is a great opportunity to join us if you are already in the charity sector or are looking to transfer from either an in-house or private practice role.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a critical area of the charity, supporting and making a difference in the midst of a global crisis.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please note that we will be reviewing applications throughout the advertising period and may close the vacancy early due to interest levels, therefore early applications are encouraged.

Closing date: Monday 1st June 2020

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated individual with a background in law and human rights to undertake advocacy with and for street children. You will support CSC’s overall advocacy strategy and activities towards realising street children’s rights around the world, and in particular contribute to national advocacy plans and trainings as part of CSC’s existing advocacy projects.

• Reporting to: Head of Advocacy and Research
• Working hours: Part-time (3 days per week, flexible days)
• Salary: £25,000 - £29,000 p/a pro-rata (£15,000 – £17,400 for 3 days per week)
• Location: CSC’s offices in Bethnal Green, London
• Duration: One year fixed-term contract, with potential for renewal pending funding

Specific responsibilities

1.  Support CSC’s advocacy projects at national level

• Contribute to development and implementation of advocacy training for project partners, beneficiaries and decision-makers to understand and use the UN CRC General Comment No. 21 on Children in Street Situations
• Conduct assessments of the project countries’ laws and policies and their conformity with international child rights standards to inform advocacy strategies
• Contribute to developing and implementing advocacy plans with project partners based on evidence generated through the projects.

2. Support advocacy for street children’s rights at regional and international levels

• Identify opportunities for engagement at regional and international level
• Support CSC’s advocacy at regional and international levels, including collating network members’ evidence on key street child rights issues and drafting written submissions to human rights bodies and mechanisms
• Participate in UK civil society working groups relevant for CSC’s advocacy objectives

3. Supporting the Legal Atlas for Street Children

• Reviewing and editing legal research from countries around the world to populate the Legal Atlas for Street Children
• Keep existing information on the Legal Atlas for Street Children up to date
• Promote and monitor use of the Legal Atlas for Street Children

4. Other:

• Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job
• Abide by all CSC Policies, Regulations and Procedures

Person specification

Criteria

Experience

• Using international human rights law and mechanisms for human rights advocacy (E)
• Conducting and using legal research, ideally in a human rights context (E)
• Developing advocacy plans or campaigns (E)
• Building capacity of organisations or other actors to conduct advocacy (D)
• Working in an international context (D)
• Working with Parliamentarians, especially UK Parliament (D)

Skills and abilities

• Clear analytical intellect and strategic thinker (E)
• Ability to comprehend complex information and communicate it to different audiences (E)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (E)
• Good attention to detail and excellent work planning skills (E)
• Working well under pressure and can meet deadlines (E)
• Working proactively and taking initiative while remaining a team player (E)
• Can work in Spanish or French in addition to English  (D)

Knowledge

• Understanding of international human rights law and regional and international human rights mechanisms (E)
• Understanding of human rights-based approaches to work with children (D)
• Understanding of the issues faced by street-connected children (D)

Training/Education

• Degree in law, human rights, international law or international development (E)

E = Essential

D = Desirable

ABOUT US
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. We want to see a UK rich in native woods and trees, for people and wildlife. The Trust aims to engage and inspire people about woods and trees to help us meet our vision of creating, restoring and protecting woodland. THE ROLE
Woodland Trust Legal Services is an in-house legal office of solicitors and legal executives that form part of the Woodland Trust’s Corporate Services team. We provide advice on a broad and diverse range of legal matters to a wide range of organisation stakeholders including our trustees, directors and officers of the Trust.
Our work is interesting and rewarding offering experience in a broad range of legal areas and involvement in key and significant projects. We have a large estate which coves England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We have the support of significant corporate sponsors.
The Commercial Solicitor will manage a mixed caseload, providing strong legal support for the Trust and advising on matters relating to contractual, regulatory and commercial issues. This will include drafting, negotiating and advising on contractual documentation in relation to our funded projects and corporate sponsorship..THE CANDIDATE
You’ll have experience gained in house or in private practice, ideally with experience of the charity sector. With an understanding of the aims of the Woodland Trust, you’ll want to support us in achieving them through your role. With exceptional communication skills you’ll be pragmatic and in your approach to problem solving and be able to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You’ll thrive when working as part of a team and be a strong committed team player.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
There’s no other organisation like the Woodland Trust. Whatever you do here you will be supporting our work to protect and enhance woods and trees. In return, we recognise and value our people. You'll have our full support, training and opportunities for professional development, along with contributory pension, life assurance and good holiday entitlement.
The successful candidate will be given the opportunity for homebased work up to two days per week after successful completion of probation

This is an exciting position for an exceptional person with a legal, policy or digital rights campaigning background to work for one of the UK’s leading rights NGOs. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lobby UK Parliament to further privacy, free expression and data protection rights; to oversee some of the most important litigation on human rights and surveillance in Europe, including on facial recognition and mass interception; and to lead public advocacy campaigns for real change. You’ll also be a key Big Brother Watch spokesperson in the media.

The focus of this role will initially be on our Stop Facial Recognition and End Digital Strip Searches campaigns. You’ll have opportunities to work across all areas of our organisational strategy: data, rights and justice; freedom of expression online; policing and technology; and suspcionless surveillance - and to specialise in certain themes, as well as explore new organisational priorities, over time.

Post details

Job title: Legal & Policy Officer

Reports to: Director

Working hours: Full time

Starting salary: £27,000 - £32,000 (depending on experience)

Location: Vauxhall, London

Application deadline: Monday 6th April 2020

Start date: ASAP

About you

We’re looking for highly skilled professional with a demonstrable passion for protecting civil liberties, especially privacy and freedom of expression, and a high level of interest in new and emerging technologies.

Ideally, you’ll have 2+ years experience in a legal or policy capacity, or in a comparable environment that relied on your expertise on surveillance technology issues. You’ll be familiar with key litigation and policy issues in the area. You’ll also have excellent knowledge of British politics and UK parliamentary procedures. You’ll be a brilliant communicator, able to simplify complex technology issues and convey powerful messages whether in expert policy briefings or in live news interviews as a Big Brother Watch spokesperson. The ideal candidate will appreciate the importance of winning not only in courts of law but of public opinion, and have the skills to do both.

You’ll be at ease working on a strictly non-partisan, cross-party basis and grounding policy analysis in human rights and liberal principles.

You’ll be proactive in pitching policy, litigation and campaign ideas for the organisation to pursue within our work streams. You’ll also be proactive and in building relationships with partner organisations, experts and stakeholders. We’re looking for someone who is highly capable, self-motivated, flexible, diligent and able to work under pressure with an often competing workload.

If you’re committed to Big Brother Watch’s mission, we’d like to hear from you.

Big Brother Watch

Big Brother Watch is a UK civil liberties campaign group fighting for a free future. We’re determined to reclaim our privacy and defend freedoms at this time of enormous technological change. And we fight to win.

We’re a fiercely independent, diverse, non-partisan and non-profit group of campaigners and researchers who work to roll back the surveillance state and protect rights in parliament, the media or the courts if we have to. We publish unique investigations and pursue powerful public campaigns to pursue real change. We work relentlessly to inform and empower the public to collectively reclaim privacy, defend our civil liberties and protect freedoms for the future.

We’re a small, dedicated and highly effective team of three full-time staff and five volunteers.

Job description

Legal

• Co-ordinate Big Brother Watch’s strategic litigation, liaising with external lawyers

• Manage relationships with external counsel & build strong relationships with partners

• Produce legal and policy analysis and identify strategic litigation opportunities

Policy

• Produce policy analysis, research, briefings and reports for dissemination

• Develop strategic policy recommendations informed by expertise

• Identify and explore new and emerging policy issues in our key work areas

• Communicate complex policy issues to varied audiences, whether parliament, the press or the public

• Build strong relationships with parliamentarians and advisors across all parties

• Identify opportunities to further our strategic aims in parliament, through committees, parliamentary questions and other activities; as well as regional assemblies and on occasion local government

• Work with stakeholders and pursue collaborative campaigns/coalitions on key issues

• Develop Big Brother Watch’s relationships with allies across Government, legislative bodies, international organisations, and NGOs

• Draft formal correspondence, blog posts, presentations, and other documents articulating Big Brother Watch’s policy positions

Advocacy

• Work with the team to develop campaigns plans to manage and schedule relevant legal, policy and advocacy work to further strategic aims

• Identify campaigns and advocacy opportunities

• Feed into development of campaign materials

• Write articles and give quotes to press

• Give pre-recorded and live interviews for TV and radio

• Uphold Big Brother Watch’s reputational excellence in public fora

Person specification

Essential

• Min. 2+ years experience in a similar role

• A degree in a relevant field (law, politics)

• Familiarity with domestic policy matters relating to privacy, surveillance and/or free expression

• Strong legal and policy research skills

• Excellent and persuasive communications skills

• Demonstrable experience in privacy, freedom of expression, or other rights and technology areas

• Aptitude for managing and building relationships with partner organisations, parliamentarians and other stakeholders

• Proven ability to produce high quality work under pressure

• Creativity and energy in approaching a workload consisting of large long-term projects

• Willingness to work in non-partisan environment, and ability to recruit support of MPs across all parties

Desirable

• Experience managing litigation, either in a legal or campaigns capacity

• Experience working with parliamentarians and/or producing policy briefings

• Strong media/spokesperson experience

• A track record of successful campaigns experience

• Project management experience

• Familiarity with relevant UK surveillance laws, human rights frameworks, and relevant case law