Legal Officer

Legal Officer

Full time and permanent from London office

Salary: £39,520

Benefits: 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), generous workplace pension, well-being support, resources for learning & development, and we can offer a modest relocation fund.

Join us: You’re curious about how technologies affect power and shape the future. You’re an advocate who wants to speak out for change with a voice that is both nuanced and engaging. You want to help build an organisation that is always learning.

Working together: You’ll join an organisation of 25+ people in our Central London office from diverse backgrounds, collaborating, building and learning together. We are delivering our multi-year strategic plan to protect democracy and civic spaces from authoritarian technologies.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

What you’ll be doing:

The Legal Officer will conduct advocacy to achieve PI’s goals. This will include legal, policy, research, outreach and public engagement initiatives as PI formulates new and creative ways to demand change globally, including working with our partners across the world.

Essential requirements

Experiences:

• Experience working with data protection regulations, including enforcing them or ensuring organisational compliance.
• Experience working with international human rights standards and/or national rights frameworks.
• Law degree or equivalent postgraduate diploma in any jurisdiction.
• Admitted/qualified to practice in any jurisdiction.
• Experience in a legal role post admission/qualification.
• Understanding of and experience working within a variety of local, national, and international jurisdictions.
• Experience taking creative approaches to novel legal challenges.
• Experience in NGOs/human rights organisations.
• Knowledge of legal issues related to data and privacy.
• Experience mitigating legal risks faced by organisations.
• Passion for technology and its interaction with human rights.
• Proven track record of communicating complex issues to diverse audiences.
• Experience in engaging in strategic advocacy regarding conduct of state or non-state actors.
• Experience in designing and delivering learning and education activities.

Skills:

• Ability to work with and manage relationships with partner organisations, coalitions and counsel.
• Proactive and self-motivated, capable of working unsupervised.
• Capable to deliver projects collaboratively.
• Thoughtful interpersonal skills for engaging with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Demonstrable excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desirable experience and skills

• Knowledge of and experience advocating for social, economic and cultural rights.
• Record of stakeholder engagement.
• Deft at speaking publicly, including with the media.
• Experience in identifying, researching, monitoring and documenting technologies.
• Willing and able to travel internationally.
• Fluency in a language other than English, with one of the other 5 UN languages an asset.

HOW TO APPLY

We want to encourage applicants with diverse experiences, backgrounds and talents. Each of us here have followed unique paths. PI is built on genuine diversity, and we encourage you to apply if you think you can meet the criteria.

To apply please send:

• a CV (not more than two pages)
• a covering letter (not more than two pages)

The closing date for applications is Sunday, 6 October 2024 at 11:59pm BST.

Please send the requested material in one email to recruitment@privacyinternational.org. Only complete applications will be considered.

Interviews will take place between 14 and 16 October – please reserve these days for a possible interview.

For information about how Privacy International will use your data during recruitment please see our policy (https://privacyinternational.org/basic-page/618/how-we-use-and-protect-your-data#volunteersapp).