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Title:	Legal Volunteer
Location:	New York City
Minimum Commitment:	6 months
Positions Available:	1

The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

At the Rainforest Alliance, we believe that the key to ensuring long and healthy lives for people, for wildlife and for the planet is by establishing sustainable ways of working the land. In more than 60 countries around the world, we are collaborating with farmers, workers, business leaders, non-governmental organizations, governments, scientists and local communities to develop and implement standards that are socially and environmentally responsible, as well as economically viable.

By creatively and systematically helping to overhaul the way that crops and timber are produced and the way tourism is managed, the Rainforest Alliance, its partners and the consumers they serve are ensuring that the resources we depend on today will be here far into the future.

Summary of Opportunity

The Rainforest Alliance in-house legal team of three attorneys, two in New York and one in Ecuador, works, with the support of a large network of outside counsel, on a wide range of substantive issues, including among others intellectual property, tax, employment, contract and best governance matters. This Legal Volunteer opportunity is ideal for an independent, detail-oriented professional with at least three years' experience in the practice of law looking to contribute to the mission of an international conservation organization.

Qualifications

Juris Doctorate degree and admittance to bar in New York or another United States state;
Minimum three years' experience in practice of law;
Outstanding writing, proof-reading, editing, verbal and legal research skills;
Ability to balance great attention to detail with perspective on overarching goals;
Written and verbal proficiency in one or more languages in addition to English, especially Spanish and French, preferred;
Excellent organizational skills and dependability; and
Ability to work independently as well as within a team structure.

To Apply

Send resume and cover letter to personnel@ra.org.