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- Job posted on: 11th Apr 2024
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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 are recruiting for a Special Counsel to join our Systemic Change Program. The role may be based anywhere in Australia but will focus on the proposed expansion of offshore oil and gas developments off the coast of Victoria and Tasmania. Therefore, VIC or TAS based candidates, particularly those who can work from our Naarm/Melbourne or nipaluna/Hobart office, are preferred.
The Special Counsel will engage with legal issues surrounding climate change and environmental protection in the waters off Victoria and Tasmania. In this role you will think creatively about delivering systemic change in relation to supporting strong community opposition to new oil and gas proposals in the waters off Victoria and Tasmania, including in the Otway Basin and Bass Strait.
You will have an unrestricted practising certificate, and strong PAE working as a lawyer with demonstrated litigation experience. This position represents an opportunity to engage with legal issues surrounding climate change and environmental protection in Australia’s South-East, and offers a high level of autonomy. Lawyers who want a chance to think creatively about delivering systemic change in relation to fossil fuel developments and climate change are strongly encouraged to apply.
EDO is a diverse and inclusive workplace. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and members of the Global Majority* are particularly encouraged to apply.
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Core Skills
Substantive Experience
Personal Qualities and Cultural Competency
We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected, and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or life stage.
*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.
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Applications must include a CV and a letter that clearly addresses each of the key selection criteria.
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.
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], using the subject line: Special Counsel - Safe Climate - VIC / TAS - Flexible Location enquiry via EthicalJobs.
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