Public Legal Education Manager (30-month contract)
ROLE OVERVIEW
LEAF is hiring a Public Legal Education (PLE) Manager to oversee LEAF’s PLE program and provide important support to LEAF’s broader PLE work. This is a 30-month contract with an anticipated start date of October 7, 2024, and concluding on March 31, 2027.
Reporting to the Executive Director and General Counsel, the PLE Manager will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and delivery of LEAF’s public legal education program. This will include building capacity among LEAF’s branches to deliver workshops and training across the country and designing new public legal education materials. It will also involve designing and implementing PLE materials for LEAF’s upcoming Care Economy project.
The ideal candidate will have expertise in designing public legal education materials for youth, experience working with volunteers, and an understanding of the gendered nature of care work.
This is a hybrid position requiring the successful candidate to work out of LEAF’s office in downtown Toronto two days a week.
WHO WE ARE
LEAF is a national non-profit, charitable organization which uses law to advance gender equality in Canada. Our national office is located in downtown Toronto, or Tkarón:to, which is a Mohawk word that means “the place in the water where trees are standing.” We have volunteer branches in Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax.
We intervene in legal cases throughout Canada to advance equality in Canada – helping to prevent violence, eliminate discrimination in the workplace, provide better maternity benefits, ensure a right to pay equity, and allow access to reproductive freedoms. We push for progressive law reform on issues central to gender equality, including sexual violence, online hate, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, and basic income. We use education to amplify our legal victories and improve people’s understanding of their rights.
For more information, visit www.leaf.ca.
WHO YOU ARE
You are passionate about contemporary feminist issues and public legal education. You have experience delivering public education, ideally on legal issues, and working with high school and post-secondary-aged youth. You are energized by working as part of a team and in collaboration with volunteers from across Canada committed to gender equity. You bring an intersectional feminist lens to your work – including your analysis, collaborations, and communication style.
PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
The Public Legal Education (PLE) Manager will design, evaluate, and participate in facilitating LEAF’s PLE programs, build capacity in LEAF’s member branches to deliver PLE across the country, and provide important support to LEAF’s broader PLE work.
More specifically, the PLE Manager will be responsible for the following:
PLE PROGRAM AND DESIGN EVALUATION
- Working with the Executive Director & General Counsel to develop an annual Public Legal Education (PLE) plan
- Updating and maintaining existing curriculum and materials for all educational programs, in consultation with volunteer branches, youth-focused organizations, youth, LEAF’s PLE Committee and LEAF’s upcoming Care Economy project team
- Creating new curriculum and materials, including for LEAF’s upcoming Care Economy project
- Consulting with members of LEAF’s Legal Team to ensure accuracy and timeliness of legal information in educational programming
- Developing digital-delivery workshop formats for LEAF PLE programs
- Leading the development and implementation of PLE program evaluation
- Reporting results of evaluation to the Executive Director & General Counsel and other staff and board as required
BRANCH PLE AND IMPLEMENTATION
- Managing LEAF’s PLE programs and branch executive members who primarily implement the delivery of LEAF’s PLE programs
- Contributing to and strengthening LEAF branches in their ability to deliver LEAF’s PLE programs
- Assisting branches in training education program facilitators, particularly in providing content for the training and providing facilitators with necessary information and materials
- Working with the Office and Branch Relations Coordinator to develop and implement a system for tracking and supporting LEAF branch members, workshop facilitators, and other volunteers
LEAF NATIONAL SUPPORT
- Facilitating public legal education sessions and speaking on topics related to LEAF’s PLE work, as needed
- Working with LEAF staff to organize PLE panels and webinars, as needed
- Working with the Communications and Advocacy Manager to ensure PLE information and materials are accessible online, including through LEAF’s website, email list-serv, and social media feeds
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS
- A post-secondary degree or equivalent experience in education, social sciences, humanities, and/or a related field
- Expertise in plain language communication
- Experience designing and/or facilitating public legal education workshops
- Experience designing and/or facilitating educational workshops for youth (high school and college/university)
- Experience working with volunteers
- An understanding of the gendered nature and realities of care work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work independently and also as part of a team
- Experience with project management, ideally with multiple projects at the same time
- Demonstrated commitment to intersectional feminism and/or social justice, including experience within social justice movements and/or organizations
The ideal candidate will also have:
- An academic background in law and/or education
- Experience in designing and/or facilitating virtual public legal education workshops
- Experience in developing and delivering “train the trainer” models
- Proficiency in French
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The salary range for this position is $72,000 to $80,000, depending on experience. The successful candidate will also receive benefits including three weeks’ vacation to start, three weeks of paid sick leave, up to two weeks of paid caregiver leave, five paid personal leave days, a week-long December holiday office closure, an annual budget for continuing professional development, and immediate enrolment in LEAF’s comprehensive benefits plan, which includes health and dental benefits. If applicable, LEAF will pay the cost for membership in a provincial or territorial law society. LEAF also hosts celebrations of staff members’ birthdays and significant life events, and enjoys monthly catered team lunches together.
LOCATION
The successful candidate will work out of LEAF’s Toronto office two days a week.
HOW TO APPLY
LEAF recognizes that structural barriers shape experiences, qualifications, and a sense of capacity. We encourage people to apply even if you feel that the position may be a stretch. LEAF is committed to supporting the PLE Manager through orientation, professional development opportunities, and on-going mentoring.
LEAF encourages applications from candidates who reflect the diversity of our communities. We strongly encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, and racialized people, as well as from newcomers, gender-diverse people, and members of other equity-deserving groups. If you are comfortable, please indicate in your cover letter if you identify as a member of an equity-deserving group.
LEAF welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities for all available positions. Where possible, accommodations will be made available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Please submit the following in one combined PDF to [email protected]:
- Your cover letter
- Your CV
- A list of three references (contact name, phone number, and email address)
In the subject line of your email application, please reference “Public Legal Education Manager”.
Please address your application to the Hiring Committee. In your cover letter, please ensure that you explain why you would like to work at LEAF and why you are qualified for the position as tied to the duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and experience listed above. Please do not submit multiple applications or send additional documents.
HIRING TIMELINE
Applications are due no later than Wednesday, September 4, 2024, at 11:59pm ET. Interviews will take place the week of September 16, 2024. The successful candidate will ideally start October 7, 2024.
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
