Liberty (London/Hybrid) – Legal Team Manager
- Job Title: Legal Team manager
- Location: Westminster, London/Hybrid
- Salary: £67,586
- Hours: 35 hours per week, plus occasional out of hours work (for which
TOIL is available)
Liberty is an independent campaigning organisation. At Liberty, we challenge injustice, defend freedom and campaign to make sure everyone in the UK is treated fairly.
Strategic litigation is core to Liberty’s work. Our lawyers work closely with the rest of the organisation using our casework , legal advice and education work to help Liberty reach its strategic goals. Liberty is looking for a creative and strategic lawyer with management experience to join our legal team in the role of a legal team manager.
We are looking for someone who can:
• Develop strategies for creating change using litigation and other legal tools
• Run a small caseload of strategic litigation for Liberty and external clients
• Conduct interventions
• Give advice on human rights and other issues, internally and externally
• Line manage a lawyer, a paralegal and our legal information officer
• Contribute to Liberty’s policy and campaigning work
• Act as a Liberty spokesperson within your areas of specialism
Liberty is committed to building a truly inclusive team. We welcome applications from marginalised groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non -binary people, disabled people and older candidates. Your potential to learn and grow in the role is important to us, so even if you don’t have all of what we are asking for, we want to hear from you. We also welcome applications from people who are interested in flexible working arrangements.
About the role:
Liberty’s lawyers are responsible for running strategic litigation, conducting interventions and providing specialist human rights advice. This newly-created role is to increase the team’s capacity for legal work, particularly strategic litigation , whilst also providing legal advice internally and working closely with partner organisations on key legal issues. The role involves identifying and developing legal challenges to support Liberty to meet its strategic objectives.
Alongside their legal work, the legal team manager will be line managing one of the lawyers, one of the paralegals and the legal information officer, who leads Liberty’s legal education work. The management of the team as a whole will be shared between the Head of Legal, the current legal team manager and the new postholder.
How to Apply:
Further details, including information about how to apply, may be found here.
Application Deadline: 9am Monday 22 June 2026