Job Summary
- $100,175.00 to $133,425.00 per annum
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 28th Aug 2024
2 days left to apply
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) is the largest environmental legal centre in the Australia-Pacific, dedicated to protecting our climate, communities and shared environment by providing access to justice, running ground-breaking litigation and leading law reform advocacy.
As the region’s legal experts in our field, we aim to be a brave, unified, and focused team, committed to inclusion and excellence in all that we do. We strive to be a diverse and inclusive workplace supporting a highly skilled, engaged, and effective team, where everyone can feel that they belong.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Solicitor (3+ PAE), Senior Solicitor (5+ PAE), or Special Counsel (8+ PAE) to join the WA Practice. This role offers the opportunity to make an impact on climate and environmental justice in WA. You will work on a broad range of environmental issues including climate justice, pollution, water, cultural heritage protection, and biodiversity.
EDO is a diverse and inclusive workplace. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are particularly encouraged to apply.
Core skills:
Substantive experience:
Personal qualities and cultural competency:
*Global Majority is a collective term that first and foremost speaks to and encourages those so-called, to think of themselves as belonging to the majority on planet earth. It refers to people who are Black, African, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or, have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’.
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.
If you have queries in regard to this advert, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] using the subject line: Solicitor / Senior Solicitor / Special Counsel - WA - Boorloo / Perth enquiry via EthicalJobs.
Applications must include a CV and a letter that clearly addresses each of the selection criteria.
Please note: Your application may be considered for future roles at the EDO within the next 12 months without additional advertising. Please notify us in your application if you would not like to be considered for similar roles beyond this recruitment.
If you have any accessibility needs for the recruitment or interviewing process, please let us know in your application or by emailing [email protected].
EDO is not issuing a vaccination mandate. EDO staff have the option to share vaccination details within the EDO HRIS system, EDO will maintain this record of vaccination status of EDO employees, however if staff do not wish to disclose this information, it will not be enforced.
Working with clients face-to-face:
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.
Applications for this role will take you to the employer’s site.
2 days left to apply