Legal Director
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Global Justice Center
- Career category: Legal
- Job type: Job
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: USD 105,000 USD-USD 125,000 USD / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Permanent
- Deadline: 07/08/2026
- Location: United States , New York City
Background
The Global Justice Center (GJC) is a feminist human rights organization started by the legendary reproductive rights advocate Janet Benshoof in 2005. The organization uses international law to advance gender equality, focused on two main areas: advancing reproductive autonomy as an international human right and ensuring justice for mass atrocities involving sexual and gender-based crimes.
Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions
Develop, lead, and execute GJC’s legal and programmatic strategies and serve as an institutional thought leader.
- Lead GJC’s creative and innovative legal work on a wide range of issues involving international public, humanitarian, criminal, and human rights law.
- Scope new areas to push for progressive legal interpretations to advance gender equality.
- Monitor relevant legal, policy, and feminist movement developments to identify opportunities to carry out advocacy to advance objectives.
Supervise and support the production of publications, briefs and other documents.
- Supervise and conduct legal research and analysis, particular in new or emerging areas.
- Oversee, edit, and draft GJC work product, including briefs, reports, submissions to UN bodies, press releases, op-eds, talking points, and advocacy papers.
Represent GJC with external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders, including UN actors, government and intergovernmental representatives, civil society members, legal experts, and justice practitioners.
- Represent GJC in the press, on social media, and other popular news and information channels. Work with the Communications Director to integrate communications and programmatic goals.
Serve on GJC’s senior leadership team.
- Coordinate department resources and capacity.
- Manage the legal team, including performance management, and professional development.
Skills/Experience/Qualifications
- A degree in law and admittance with good standing to a Bar from any country.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience working in gender and international law, particularly criminal, humanitarian, and human rights law, and in feminist legal theory and gender analysis.
- Experience developing innovative feminist legal analysis to advance gender equality, ideally regarding reproductive autonomy and atrocities involving sexual and gender-based crimes.
- Expert writing and editing skills, including those necessary to review legal briefs, opinions, UN submissions, and related policy and advocacy documents.
- Strong verbal communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to explain and advocate for complex or nuanced gender and/or human rights-based issues and positions.
- Experience as an organization spokesperson for press, social media, and other mass media.
- Demonstrated ability to develop strategy and operationalize a vision, lead teams and ensure team members are supported.
- Sound negotiation skills, political astuteness and comfort in creating and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders.
- Knowledge of contemporary international relations and of the UN system, in particular relating to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and international justice.
- Demonstrated awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and orientations.
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