Legal Drafting Advisor

We’re looking for a Legal Drafting Advisor who can live and volunteer for 12 months in Fiji.

• This assignment seeks to further enhance and develop legal officers' existing legal drafting skills to draft and build in-house technical drafting capacity for the long term
• To be considered for this role, you’ll need a tertiary qualifications in law and at least 12 years experience in a common law jurisdiction
• You will be working alongside Fiji legal officers of the Commission

About the Partner Organisation 

The Fiji Law Reform Commission (Commission) is a statutory body establised in 1979. The Commission will "take and keep under review the laws applicable in Fiji with a view to their systematic development and reform including in particular: the codification of such law; elimination of anomalies; repeal of obselete and unnecessary enactments; making of new laws; adoption of new or more effective and economical methods for the administration of the law and generally the simplification, improvement and modernization of the law."

About the Australian Volunteers Program  

The Australian Volunteers Program is an Australian government-funded initiative. We support partner organisations across the Pacific, Asia, and Africa to achieve locally led change.  

Volunteers are supported throughout their volunteer journey. We actively support and encourage people of all backgrounds and abilities to volunteer and aim to make the program as accessible and inclusive as possible. If you have accessibility requirements, please contact us to discuss how we can support you to volunteer with us - inclusion@australianvolunteers.com. Learn more about our commitment to inclusion.