Legal Advisor – Preventing Forced Labour in Critical Minerals

About Us

Global Rights Compliance, founded in 2013, is an international human rights law foundation specializing in international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and business human rights. Global Rights Compliance’s mission is to provide justice through the innovative application of international law. We operate in conflict-affected and high-risk areas around the world in over 45 countries.

Our Business and Human Rights team works on a number of projects globally, in collaboration with governments to strengthen the regulatory environment, with businesses to raise their standards, and with civil society organizations (CSOs) and communities to build capacity on access to remedy for human rights violations. To find out more: Business and Human Rights Compliance (beyondhumanrightscompliance.co.uk)

We are seeking a Legal Advisor to join our Business and Human Rights team. This role will play a key role in working on an impactful human and labor rights project to prevent forced labor in critical minerals.

Duty Station: Remote

Contract Duration: 6 months with possible extension

Full / Part Time: Full Time

The Role

The Legal Adviser will be responsible for supporting and carrying out legal research for the project activities; analysing evidence; drafting and editing corporate responsibility and legal accountability materials and tools; preparing work for the delivery of the project’s corporate responsibility and accountability activities as well developing training materials for the workshops. In addition, they will deliver due diligence training to companies and trade associations.

Project Implementation

• Draft and review reports, policies, guidance, and other material on elements in business and human rights, and related international law;

• Conduct research on and analysis of evolving regulatory frameworks on business and human rights and associated legislations;

• Support and carry out stakeholder engagement exercises;

• Develop, prepare, and facilitate workshops, multi-stakeholder events, and training courses;

• Support in the creation and dissemination of a variety of capacity-building digital tools on business-related human rights violations, access to remedy, documentation, and investigation;

• Deliver project-related advocacy work, including launch events, roundtable discussions, and briefing sessions.

Team Collaboration

• Align with other team members to ensure efficient working streams and timely completion of project deliverables;

• Provide mentorship and support to other team members, offering guidance to enable them to perform to their full potential;

• Actively participate in team brainstorming sessions on project implementation strategies;

• Identify emerging talent and work with them to reach their full potential, ensuring they are developed and given new areas of responsibility.

Your Background

• Advanced degree in law, 3-4 years of experience, and practical knowledge of business in human rights.
• Experience in conducting capacity-building activities with civil society organizations, preferably in the workers’ rights context.
• Solid understanding of the main issues relevant to the human rights situation, especially Asia-focused; preferably with a good view of emerging trends.
• Experience in conducting capacity-building activities with civil society organizations.
• Able to work on own initiative and with limited supervision, without requiring detailed guidance to get started but who can be given a desired outcome and figure out the action areas required to reach it.
• Able to work as part of a multicultural team working towards a common goal and respectful of differentiating working approaches.
• Flexible, versatile, and creative, able to work in a changeable & fast-moving environment, and spontaneously support in project deliverables that are not in their remit where needed.
• Proactive character, suggesting solutions and approaches, anticipating problems, and foreseeing potential challenges.
• Able to think practically, break down, and pursue the elements required to operationalize a strategy.
• Administratively competent; able to manage competing & urgent demands.
• Fluency in English is required, and proficiency in other languages is desirable.