Location: King’s Cross, London
Job Type: Permanent, full time position
Salary: £40,000-£45,000 dependent on experience plus 10% pension after one year
Application deadline: 9am Monday 11 September 2017
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, academic lawyer to lead and direct the Public Law Project’s (PLP) research agenda. At a time of unprecedented legal and political upheaval, the PLP has a strategy to make the most of the opportunities to strengthen democracy, protect fundamental rights and improve access to justice. PLP are recruiting a Research Director to help the organisation rise to these challenging times and safeguard the rule of law during a period of change which will shape our constitution for generations to come.
The Research Director is a new, senior position in our unique legal charity. PLP is a national legal charity founded in 1990 with the aim of improving access to public law remedies for the disadvantaged. Since its inception, PLP has played an active role in the development of the law, and has helped other lawyers and advice agencies to use public law principles and redress mechanisms to help many of the most vulnerable in society.
PLP are seeking a Research Director to work with the rest of the senior management team and external academic institutions, amongst others, to encourage and develop the conduct of funded research in the administrative justice context, in the furtherance of PLP’s overarching strategic plan. The successful candidate will have a post-graduate qualification in public law or a closely related discipline, the ability to develop high quality research, and the personality to cultivate networks, partnership and funding relations to sustain such research.
A full job description and person specification can be accessed here.
Application forms and equal opportunities monitoring forms can be found here.
Completed application forms should be sent to c.igoe@publiclawproject.org.uk.
Interviews will be held on Friday 22 September 2017.