Managing Lawyer, Corporate Commercial
Job title: Managing Lawyer, Corporate Commercial
Reporting to: Deputy Director, Early Legal Interventions
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.
The opportunity
Are you a legal professional with the vision, drive and leadership to create lasting change? We have an exciting opportunity for a Managing Lawyer to lead our Corporate Commercial practice! This role offers the opportunity to step into a pivotal leadership role where you will be at the forefront of climate and environmental justice.
As Managing Lawyer, you will work with a passionate team on some of the most critical environmental challenges of our time and will have the opportunity to make an impact on climate and sustainability issues through the use of corporate and consumer law. The team is working on high profile net zero and sustainability claims as well as corporate disclosure issues. The Managing Lawyer is responsible for helping develop and deliver the relevant parts of the approved EDO Strategic Plan. The Managing Lawyer will have oversight of the Corporate Commercial Team and will determine the team’s workflow and priorities. The Managing Lawyer will play a key strategic role within the Systemic Change EDO and, with the Deputy Director, will be pre-eminently responsible for the design of the annual operational plan agreed to achieve the EDO’s goals in respect of our corporate and commercial work.
You are a senior litigation lawyer looking for an opportunity to use your skillset and corporate or commercial experience to work with the largest public interest environmental law centre in the region. Lawyers who think outside the box and want a chance to think creatively are strongly encouraged to apply.
EDO is a diverse and inclusive workplace. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are particularly encouraged to apply.
Key selection criteria
Core skills
Substantive experience
Personal qualities and cultural competency
Our Culture and Benefits
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’.
Our Values
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.
How to Apply
If you have queries in regard to this advert, please contact recruitment@edo.org.au
Applications will be assessed as they are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to be considered for this role.
Applications must include a CV and a letter that 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 recruitment@edo.org.au
Vaccination Requirements
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.
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Other Information
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.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
