The ERRC invites applications for the post
of Legal Director
(Last modified: 2010-02-05 15:35:54)
The European Roma Rights Centre ("ERRC") seeks a Legal Director to lead the team of lawyers for its legal department to litigate Roma rights, ethnic/race discrimination and related cases in domestic, European and international courts and to devise and conduct training sessions for Central and East European lawyers in public interest litigation strategies and techniques.
The ERRC is an international public interest law organization engaged in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma. The approach of the ERRC involves strategic litigation, international advocacy, research and policy development, and training of Romani activists.
Based in Budapest, the ERRC as a Hungarian foundation has an international Board of Directors, employs 22 staff, as well as consultants and interns, and has an annual budget of over EUR 2.5 million. For more information, see the ERRC website: http://www.errc.org.
The Position
The Legal Director (LD) develops and implements, in close cooperation with the Managing Director and senior staff the legal strategy of the organisation. S/he coordinates and supervises the implementation of the legal activities, legal advocacy work, manages professional development of legal staff and ensures high quality performance of the organisation in cooperation with his/her legal staff. The Legal Director holds management responsibilities.
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