Legal Coordinator – Greenpeace International (Deadline 21st January 2024)

Job description

12 month fixed term contract* / full time

(*with a possibility to extend up to 20 months)

Location: The successful candidate may be based in a country where one of the independent National/Regional Greenpeace organisations (NRO’s) is located. See the locations here. For this role, we have a preference to have a candidate based in the Netherlands or one of the countries in the Nordic region.

[Please note that we are currently unable to host new staff in a number of NRO’s at this present time, due to various restrictions. We are unable to support hosting in the US, in addition to some other NRO locations. The recruitment team may reach out to you to provide an update as necessary, depending on your location].

We offer competitive NGO level salary and benefits, the specifics of which depend on location where the successful candidates will be based. We aim to share this information with candidates before reaching the offer stage.

Greenpeace International is looking for a skilled and experienced Legal Coordinator. As a Legal Coordinator, you will play a crucial role in providing operational, tactical, and administrative support to our in-house lawyers at GPI. Your mission is to help the legal team work efficiently, ensuring the delivery of essential services to the global network of Greenpeace organisations, support the Senior Legal Project Manager in project management, and act as a liaison with external legal bodies and internal stakeholders.

In this role you will focus on:

Administration:

• Provide administrative and logistical support to the General Counsel.
• Manage and monitor the Legal Unit’s budget, including drafting, monitoring, and reviewing.
• Maintain general file management for the smooth running of the legal unit.
• Train legal unit staff in using legal document management systems.
• Assist with Human Resource processes, recruitment, and crisis management.

Support Project Management:

• Collaborate with the Senior Legal Project Manager to maintain the Legal Unit’s project management workspace.
• Develop project plans aligned with the Global Legal Framework, drafting scopes, objectives, timelines, and budgets.

Central Communication Hub:

• Act as a clearing house for the Global Legal Community, ensuring alignment with the Global Legal Framework.
• Manage inquiries from Greenpeace staff and external organizations, maintaining the website for accurate legal information.
• Provide legal inductions and support global legal colleagues.

Global Legal Function:

• Be the point of contact for the Global Legal Community, facilitating Greenpeace inputs into legal matters.
• Deliver court documents, registrations, and legal submissions on behalf of the global legal community.

Supporting Legal Risk Assessment:

• Ensure timely receipt of proposals and local legal advice.
• Complete summaries of legal advice for risk assessments and sign-off meetings.

Skillshares and Events:

• Support skillshare event planning and on-site facilitation.
• Monitor legal conferences and training opportunities for legal unit members.

For further information about this role, please see the full job description on our recruitment site.

What we’re looking for:

Remember no one has every skill or experience needed for this role and you’ll have the opportunity to learn a lot from the team. We believe someone who has a few of these is well suited to excel in this role:

• University Degree in law, political science, international relations, social sciences or other related field, or comparable professional experience.
• Experience in providing excellent administrative support.
• Experience with developing and tracking budgets.
• Experience with organising and logistics of international meetings and skillshares, travel, taking notes, tracking action items, etc.
• Basic understanding of civil, administrative and/or criminal litigation is an advantage.
• Maintaining project management tools such as Asana, shared calendars, and legal document management systems.
• Organised, ability to set priorities, problem solver, with a keen eye for details.
• Proven ability to work in a multi-culturally diverse and high-pressured working environment.
• Affinity with activism and peaceful protest is an advantage.
• Demonstrable commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and ability to collaborate with cross-cultural teams.
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written and preferably one other language.
• Demonstrates high interpersonal skills, conflict resolution and negotiating skills.
• Digitally literate: able to work with digital tools and online systems; willing and able to learn new ones.
• Flexible approach to working with colleagues across multiple time zones and open to international travel.
• Support for and belief in the core aims and values of Greenpeace.

What you can expect:

You’ll be coordinating Greenpeace International’s Legal Unit, supporting a team of specialised lawyers that provide independent legal advice on:

• strategic litigation to advance the fight against environmental destruction,
• risk management and strategic defence of campaigns, the organisation and staff,
• and advocacy efforts to strengthen environmental and human rights.

You’ll be encouraged to develop both personally and professionally, taking advantage of the wide range of learning and development opportunities available to our staff. Staff can also access our wellness initiatives, such as yoga and meditation and also have the opportunity to join our global Equity, Diversity & Inclusion staff communities.

Please visit the careers site, to learn more about working for Greenpeace.

About us:

Greenpeace is a global campaigning network. It comprises 25 independent national/regional organisations, and a coordinating organisation, Greenpeace International. Greenpeace uses peaceful, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and develop solutions for a green and peaceful future.

Our goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity. That means we want to:

• protect biodiversity in all its forms
• prevent pollution and abuse of the earth’s ocean, land, air and fresh water
• end all nuclear threats
• promote peace, global disarmament and non-violence

To Apply

If you share our vision, please click ‘apply for this job’ below, to begin your application.

To apply for this role, we require you to answer a selection of key criteria and upload your CV (in English) via our online application form.

Addressing the key criteria is an important part of your application. We will be looking for evidence that demonstrates your skills and experience in these areas. Use examples where possible, to draw attention to experience, knowledge, achievements and skills gained in past employment or voluntary/leisure activities, provided they are relevant to the post.

It’s advisable to prepare your responses to the key criteria before starting your online application, as you are unable to save and return to it at a later date.

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please email us at [email protected]. Please note that all applications have to be filled out via the website and can’t be submitted via this email.

We welcome everyone to apply for our positions. We understand that some candidates hesitate to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria. However, we strongly encourage you to apply if you meet some of the key criteria for our roles. We’d love to know how your unique experience can bring value to our team. We believe in people power and having representation from many different communities to effect change.

Greenpeace International is an equal opportunity employer with a longstanding commitment of providing a work environment that respects the dignity and worth of each individual. We recognise and value the benefits and strengths that diversity brings to our employees and the whole organisation and we thrive in an environment that encourages respect and trust. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship, colour, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and would like to invite you especially to apply!

CLOSING DATE: Sunday 21 January 2024, 23:59 (CEST)