Profile: Senior Legal Advisor - Protect
Location: Hybrid · Bethnal Green, UK
Hybrid working, minimum 2 days in the office
Closing date: Friday 4 April 2025
Salary: £37,000 - £43,000 (GBP) (to be pro-rated depending on number of days)
Full time
Available on a part-time basis - minimum 3 days per week
How to apply: click here.
Summary: We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven, public-spirited qualified and experienced solicitor or barrister to join our expert Whistleblowing Advice Line team.
If you are keen to use your legal training for the benefit of the public interest in a part time role, we want to hear from you. We are keen to hear applications from an experienced lawyer looking for a new and exciting area of work. Protect is a specialist organisation providing expert advice on whistleblowing law. We are looking for an individual to help supervise our team of legal advisers and we’re looking for someone with experience in employment law, and ideally some knowledge of whistleblowing.
About: Protect is the UK's whistleblowing charity. We aim to stop harm by encouraging safe whistleblowing. We run a free, confidential advice line for workers with whistleblowing dilemmas, train and support organisations with their whistleblowing arrangements, undertake research, inform public policy and campaign for legislative reform.
Since 1993, we have supported 50,000 cases, and our advice line supports almost 3,000 cases each year. We also support organisations to instil best practice speak-up arrangements. Protect is lobbying for legal reform of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and has drafted new whistleblowing legislation.
More info: Vacancies Protect - Speak up stop harm - Protect (protect-advice.org.uk)