Job Summary
- $110,000 - $119,999 per annum
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 10th Jun 2022
The Environmental Defenders Office is the largest and most impactful environmental law centre in the Australia Pacific. We are dedicated to protecting our climate, communities and shared environment by providing access to justice, running ground-breaking litigation, and leading law reform advocacy.
Working with the Head of Policy & Law Reform and sitting in the Systemic Change Team, the Commonwealth Law Reform and Advocacy Specialist is a Canberra based position and will be the EDO’s key interface with the Commonwealth Government. It is focused on ensuring strong engagement by the EDO with key Commonwealth law reform processes in our areas of strategic focus.
The Commonwealth Law Reform and Advocacy Specialist will:
We’re looking for an experienced lawyer passionate about working in the public interest during this decade of consequence.
The Commonwealth Law Reform and Advocacy Specialist is responsible for providing policy and legal advice in the context of EDO’s national environmental law reform priority areas: including biodiversity, safe climate, freshwater and First Nations cultural heritage protection. The successful candidate will, among other things, be responsible – in consultation with the Head of Policy and Law Reform – for leading EDO’s work on reform of the EPBC Act and the establishment of a Commonwealth EPA.
In addition to working internally and with Government, the successful candidate will work closely to develop EDO’s partnerships within the broad range of organisational stakeholders involved with environmental law reform, ensuring – with the Head of Policy and Law Reform – that EDO creates and maintains a leadership position on issues within the Policy and Law Reform Program’s remit.
This role involves liaising with Government departments and agencies, Members of Parliament, and a range of stakeholders and experts working on national environmental law reform. A critical part of this role is the ability to build positive relationships with Government, parliament and other stakeholders.
Essential:
Desirable:
We’re looking for a lawyer with a vision for environmental advocacy and national environmental law reform - who is comfortable liaising with Government, parliament and a wide range of stakeholders. You will need to be enthusiastic, flexible, take initiative. At a personal level you will be comfortable working with our distributed team across Australia.
All staff have a responsibility to:
Commitment – We are committed to; a united organisation, to each other, to collaboration, to justice, to our communities and to creating a world where nature thrives.
Diversity – We are respectful of and welcome diversity of staff, volunteers, offices, environmental regions, communities, stakeholders.
Integrity – We work effectively, efficiently, strategically, professionally, and ethically; “justice is in our nature”.
Vision – We lead change and environmental empowerment using innovation, creativity, and courage.
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A position description is attached.
All offers of employment may be subject to satisfactory background checks including a National Police Check, disclosure of previous or current disciplinary action, referee checks, proof of eligibility to work in Australia and qualification checks.
EDO particularly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, workers of all ages, people living with disabilities and people who identify as LGBTQIA+.