Legal Counsel Campaigns

**Permanent role* / full time**-
- Are you an experienced lawyer who wants to use your skills to support environmental campaigns with defensive and proactive legal strategies? Are you ready to work for the planet rather than profit? Then this might be a role for you.Greenpeace International (GPI) is seeking a** Legal Counsel Campaigns** to provide independent, campaign-related legal advice and support to GPI, and to advise the independent National and Regional Organisations (NROs) as requested. The role is likely to focus on a range of campaigns which may for example relate to food, forests, plastics, nuclear energy and peace.

Reporting to the Senior Legal Counsels Strategic Defence / Strategic Litigation, **in this role you will**:

- Support or develop and implement strategic litigations for campaigns at the domestic, regional and international levels;
- Conduct legal risk assessments of actions and investigations, advising on how to mitigate risk without compromising campaign impact, and communicating this advice to relevant stakeholders;
- Provide legal support to the Programme Department and the relevant NROs during the unfolding of activities and find opportunities to turn threats into campaigning opportunities;
- Handle campaign-related legal disputes involving GPI or its staff as defendants, including overseeing the development and implementation of legal strategies for defensive litigation;
- Ensuring proper legal representation of GPI and NROs, their staff and volunteers, when facing campaign-related proceedings;
- Support development of strategies that advance fundamental rights conducive to the functioning of a vibrant civil society and the protection of public watchdogs, including freedom of expression & assembly, freedom of association, transparency and accountability of governments and corporations at a systemic level.

For further information about this role, please see the full job description **HERE**.**

**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 succeed in this role:

- Advanced university degree in law
- Admission and good standing with a bar association that confers attorney-client privilege for advice given by in-house counsel
- Substantial and demonstrable experience working as a professional lawyer (preferably at least 5 years, including in an international context)
- Knowledge of and experience in one or more of the following fields: (international) human rights law, tort law, criminal law, law of the sea, (international) environmental law
- Experience in litigation (whether civil, administrative or criminal)
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Ability to develop and implement complex projects
- Ability to communicate complex legal issues to non-lawyers
- Demonstrable commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and ability to lead and collaborate with cross-cultural teams
- Ability to work under pressure, with the flexibility to work with colleagues across multiple time zones and to travel internationally if required
- Ability to follow instructions, work independently, communicate and collaborate with a diverse team, virtually and in person
- Experience working across different cultures
- Strong influencing, conflict resolution, communication and presentation skills
- Commitment to Greenpeace’s mission and values
- Reasonable digital literacy
- Preferred:_
- Experience of using law in a campaigning context, ideally including strategic litigation
- Experience in freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly litigation
- Proficiency in languages additional to English

**What you can expect**:
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 various wellbeing initiatives and also have the opportunity to join our global Equity, Diversity & Inclusion staff communities.

**Please visit the careers site **here**,** 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 freshwater.
- End all nuclear threats.
- Promote peace, global disarmament, and non-violence.

**To Apply**:
**_- Greenpeace International is an equal opportunity employer with a longstanding commitment to providing a work environment that respects the dignity and w