Systemic Justice is hiring for a Lawyer

Systemic Justice is looking for a new colleague who can help communities fighting for racial, social, and economic justice across Europe to build and pursue litigation projects.

• Position type: Full-time (4 days per week, 32-hour work week)
• Duration: 12 months with possibility of extension based on available funding and organisational needs
• Location: Remote, based within the European Union
• Compensation: Annual gross salary up to EUR 52.500 + up to 10% pension contribution.

What you’ll do:

Building community knowledge and power 

• Support Systemic Justice’s work in designing, producing and disseminating further accessible and multi-lingual resources and tools on strategic litigation and how it can support communities working on racial, social, and economic justice. This will include assisting with expanding our Community Toolkit.
• Deliver introductory modules on strategic litigation to communities.
• Provide workshops, training, and strategising sessions to support communities’ journeys towards readiness to litigate.

Community-driven litigation

• Develop community-driven, intersectional and integrated litigation, advocacy and communications strategies and plans with community partners, in close collaboration with the Head of Legal.
• Implement those strategies and plans, along with external counsel as appropriate, ensuring that litigation remains community-driven and values-aligned from conceptualisation to filing, implementation and enforcement.
• Ensure case management and strategy development are carried out in a transparent, accessible, structured, and accountable way – from opening and managing case files, filing, and structuring documents and data, to drafting, finalising, and overseeing version control of filings and submissions, and ensuring comprehensive documentation throughout the process.
• Contribute to building and maintaining Systemic Justice’s legal networks (such as pro-bono support, legal researchers, and local lawyer connections).

Knowledge sharing amongst legal practitioners

• Participate in and contribute to the ongoing nurturing of our Community of Practice, including through the delivery of projects that promote more equitable models of lawyering.
• Help share community-driven and trauma-informed practices and lessons learned with the wider legal profession.

Work as part of the wider Systemic Justice team

• Participate in internal activities relevant to building legal knowledge within the Systemic Justice team.
• Keep Systemic Justice team members informed on the progress of legal projects, and where they can support this work
• Participate in internal activities relevant to building and delivering on Systemic Justice’s values, working principles, and organisational strategy (such as retreats, staff meetings, team meetings, etc.).