EUSS Legal Policy officer

EUSS Legal Policy Officer – Job Description

The SAFE Project undertakes both policy work and strategic litigation and the policy role will help to inform whether or not specific issues should be litigated. To date the project has brought a number of judicial reviews challenging Home Office guidance and policy, and for individuals denied their rights under the Withdrawal Agreement.

The role will include:

• Attending regular sector-wide meetings and events to share and gather information and to identify important issues that potentially need litigating. For example, this may include attending meetings of the EUSS Alliance and the EU Delegation.
• Attending regular SAFE Project meetings to help direct the work the team should undertake.
• Maintaining and developing relationships with other EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) and Grant Funded Organisations to share information about issues arising from the EUSS.
• Undertaking legal policy work drawing on our extensive database of cases and information gathered from networking.
• Drafting policy papers and correspondence to be sent to the Home Office or other government departments as agreed by the SAFE Project from time to time.
• Assisting in drafting practical guides, templates, and training material for the sector to use.
• Sharing knowledge and experience of the EUSS with caseworkers and solicitors representing clients under the scheme and identify potential cases for strategic litigation arising.
• Delivering training for advisors at other organisations from time to time.
• Providing casework support to the solicitors conducting strategic legal work as agreed by the SAFE Project from time to time
• Assisting in the preparation of required reports to funders during and at the end of the project