Legal Adviser

Global Rights Compliance

GRC is an international human rights law and development firm based in the Hague, committed to promoting international law, particularly international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights. Our BHR team works on a number of projects globally, in collaboration with governments to strengthen the regulatory environment, with businesses to raise their standards and with civil society organisations (CSOs) and communities to build capacity on access to remedy for human rights violations.

We are looking for a candidate to join our BHR team as a Legal Adviser. This is a key role within an innovative team to work on a variety of impactful human and labour rights projects across all business areas in a number of different countries.

Key tasks

• Project Implementation: draft and review reports, policies, guidance, and other material on elements in business and human rights, and related international law; conduct research on and analysis of evolving regulatory frameworks on business and human rights and associated legislations; support and carry out stakeholder engagement exercises; develop, prepare and facilitate workshops, multi-stakeholder events and training courses; support in the creation and disseminations of a variety of capacity building digital tools on business-related human rights violations, access to remedy, documentation and investigation; deliver project-related advocacy work, including launch events, roundtable discussions, briefing sessions.
• Team management: align with other team members to ensure efficient working streams and timely completion of project deliverables; provide mentorship and support to other team members, offering guidance to enable them to perform to their full potential; actively participate in team brainstorming sessions on project implementation strategies; identify emerging talent and work with them to reach their full potential, ensuring they are developed and given new areas of responsibility.
• Business Development: reporting directly to the Head of Business and Human Rights, work within the BHR team to identify new clients and develop new areas of work in line with the BHR strategy, including conducting research, drafting concept notes and proposals, engaging in stakeholder meetings.

Your Role

We are looking for a candidate:

• with 2-5 years of experience in business and human rights, ideally with considerable knowledge in international human rights, criminal and/or humanitarian law;
• is qualified in law (LLM mandatory; LLB preferred), with sufficient knowledge of business and human rights laws and regulations on national and regional level;
• who has practical experience working with a variety of clients including businesses, civil society organisations, and governmental institutions;
• is proficient in English (additional language skills are an advantage);
• able to work on their own initiative and with limited supervision, without requiring detailed guidance to get started but who can be given a desired outcome and figure out the action areas required to reach it;
• able to work as part of a multicultural team working towards a common goal and respectful of differentiating working approaches;
• who is flexible, versatile, and creative and able to work in a changeable & fast-moving environment, and capable to spontaneously support in project deliverables that are not in their remit where needed;
• with a proactive character, suggesting solutions and approaches, anticipating problems and foresees potential challenges;
• able to think practically, to break down and pursue the elements required to operationalise a strategy;
• administratively competent; able to manage competing urgent demands.

What we can offer you

• A twelve-month extendable contract with an initial three-month probationary period
• Competitive salary
• Being part of a growing, innovative, and exciting business, leading in its field and seeking to operate responsibly itself
• An international team which is passionate about human rights and systems change
• Personal development and training opportunities