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Rape Crisis Network Ireland is recruiting for a Legal Policy and Support Manager

The RCNI Legal Policy and Support manager role is pivotal in achieving best outcomes for survivors in sexual violence at a time of whole of society and governmental reform and transformation.

You will join a dynamic, impactful team, working reflectively and proactively with a sector, survivors, professionals and government at multiple levels towards evidencing and innovating into solutions and capacity building.

You will work to RCNI’s vision and mission towards an Ireland where we live free of sexual violence through being an innovative and supportive specialist within a movement to end sexual violence.

We are a learning organisation, striving for excellence, investing in building expertise, enriching the feminist analysis of power and violence, encompassing diversity, and employing human rights tools.

We work from the principle of empowerment in a trauma informed way, where we believe survivors are the experts in their own lives and where their agency is acknowledged, choices enabled and dignity respected. We work flexibly and collaboratively, prioritising outcomes.

As Legal Policy and Support Manager you will:

• Lead on Sexual Violence Legal Policy development and advocacy
• Develop and deliver range of legal supports in the context of Sexual Violence responses and services
• Build capacity of the wider professional and non-professional community to respond to and prevent sexual violence.

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To apply please send concise CV and cover letter of no more than 2 pages detailing how you fit the criteria to director@rcni.ie

For any queries please contact Director@rcni.ie

RCNI as an NGO seeks to benchmark with public sector rates of pay, the relevant scale for this post is the state solicitor scale.

Closing date for applications Monday 3 April 2023. Following shortlisting interviews are expected to take place the week of the 17 April.