Legal Policy Manager
CAPTION: Job details
* Posting date: 23 January 2025
* Salary: £23,800 to £23,800 per year
* Hours: Part time
* Closing date: 03 February 2025
* Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
* Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week
* Company: Clan Childlaw
* Job type: Temporary
* Job reference: LPMJAN25
Summary
Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow
You can choose the location that works best for you. We operate hybrid working with the opportunity to work from home some of the time. The role will also require travel between our office locations on a regular basis and throughout Scotland as required.
Working Hours: Part time 24.5 hours (0.7)
Salary: £23,800 (£34,000 FTE)
Contract Type: Fixed term until December 16th 2027 with funding being sought to extend.
The Legal Policy Manager will play a key role in empowering the children's sector to use the law to drive systemic change and ensure children experience their rights in practice.
This exciting new role will be central to delivery of an innovative joint project between Clan Childlaw and Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights), funded by the Human Rights Fund.
Clan Childlaw is a leader in child-centred strategic litigation that drives systemic change, while Together represents over 600 organisations working to promote and protect children's rights in Scotland.
The post holder will support strategic legal interventions, including the use of the UNCRC, to drive change for children and young people in Scotland.
The project aims to empower and enable Scotland's children's sector to use the law to advance children's rights. These legal interventions may include strategic litigation, and seeking legal opinions, as well as wider measures such as supporting Together members to challenge rights breaches through informal processes etc.
Responsibilities include managing Clan's Strategic Litigation Group, helping Together members identify opportunities for legal intervention, identifying strategic cases for Clan, and developing resources to promote the implementation and advance of children's rights.
About Clan Childlaw
Clan wants a Scotland where all children and young people's rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled. For that to happen, Scotland has to be a place where all children and young people can stand up for their rights. That means children and young people need:
* Lawyers that are experts in working with children
* People around them who can enable them to use their rights and amplify their voices
* To be respected as rights-holders, who are entitled to hold duty-bearers to account if their rights are not fulfilled.
Clan is an award-winning, independent children's charity that actively supports children and young people to take ownership of their rights. We are the only charity in Scotland that provides free, independent legal representation exclusively for children and young people, which is child-centred by design. Because our lawyers work directly with children and young people whose lives are affected by legal decisions, we bring that unique practice-based knowledge to every aspect of our work. This includes our specialist training, our helpline supporting others who help children to use their voices and their rights, and our work to influence children's rights respecting changes to practice, policy and law.
If you're thinking of applying but would like to have a chat about it first please get in touch at clientrecruitment@worknest.com
Closing date for application is noon on Monday 3rd February and we expect interviews to take place on Thursday 13th February.
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The Legal Policy Manager will play a key role in empowering the children's sector to use the law to drive systemic change and ensure children experience their rights in practice.
This exciting new role will be central to delivery of an innovative joint project between Clan Childlaw and Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights), funded by the Human Rights Fund.
Clan Childlaw is a leader in child-centred strategic litigation that drives systemic change, while Together represents over 600 organisations working to promote and protect children's rights in Scotland.
The post holder will support strategic legal interventions, including the use of the UNCRC, to drive change for children and young people in Scotland.
The project aims to empower and enable Scotland's children's sector to use the law to advance children's rights. These legal interventions may include strategic litigation, and seeking legal opinions, as well as wider measures such as supporting Together members to challenge rights breaches through informal processes etc.
Responsibilities include managing Clan's Strategic Litigation Group, helping Together members identify opportunities for legal intervention, identifying strategic cases for Clan, and developing resources to promote the implementation and advance of children's rights.
About Clan Childlaw
Clan wants a Scotland where all children and young people's rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled. For that to happen, Scotland has to be a place where all children and young people can stand up for their rights. That means children and young people need:
Lawyers that are experts in working with children
People around them who can enable them to use their rights and amplify their voices
To be respected as rights-holders, who are entitled to hold duty-bearers to account if their rights are not fulfilled.
Clan is an award-winning, independent children's charity that actively supports children and young people to take ownership of their rights. We are the only charity in Scotland that provides free, independent legal representation exclusively for children and young people, which is child-centred by design. Because our lawyers work directly with children and young people whose lives are affected by legal decisions, we bring that unique practice-based knowledge to every aspect of our work. This includes our specialist training, our helpline supporting others who help children to use their voices and their rights, and our work to influence children's rights respecting changes to practice, policy and law.