Location: Hybrid (2 days/week in office – Toronto, ON)/open to fully remote work for the right candidate
Type: Full-time, Contract (3 years, concluding August 31, 2028)
Remuneration: $73,500 plus benefits
Apply by: Wednesday July 30, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
ROLE OVERVIEW
LEAF is hiring a Public Legal Education (PLE) Coordinator to support LEAF’s Ontario PLE program. This is a three-year contract with an ideal start date of September 2, 2025.
Reporting to the PLE Manager, the person who holds this position will play a key role in sustainably building the capacity of LEAF’s Ontario PLE program. They will support the development and delivery of PLE materials and workshops, both in person and digitally, and work in partnership with LEAF’s Ontario-based volunteer branches to deliver PLE materials and workshops. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently and as part of a collaborative team committed to PLE and volunteer success. They will also have experience designing and/or facilitating public legal education workshops and working with volunteers.
We envision this role as a hybrid position requiring the successful candidate to work out of LEAF’s office in downtown Toronto at least two days a week. That said, we are open to fully remote work for the right candidate.
LEAF recognizes that structural barriers shape experiences, qualifications, and a sense of capacity. We encourage people to apply even if you feel that the position may be a stretch. LEAF is committed to supporting the PLE Coordinator through orientation, professional development opportunities, and on-going mentoring.
WHO WE ARE
LEAF is a national non-profit, charitable organization which uses law to advance gender equality in Canada. Our national office is located in downtown Toronto, or Tkarón:to, which is a Mohawk word that means “the place in the water where trees are standing.” We have volunteer branches in Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, Thunder Bay, Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton, London, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Halifax.
We intervene in legal cases throughout Canada to advance equality in Canada – helping to prevent violence, eliminate discrimination in the workplace, provide better maternity and parental benefits, ensure a right to pay equity, and expand access to reproductive freedoms. We push for progressive law reform on issues central to gender equality, including sexual violence, online hate, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, and pay equity. We use education to amplify our legal victories and improve people’s understanding of their rights.
For more information, visit www.leaf.ca.
WHO YOU ARE
You are passionate about contemporary feminist issues and public legal education. You have experience delivering public education, ideally on legal issues, and working with high school and post-secondary-aged youth. You are energized by working as part of a team and in collaboration with volunteers from across Canada committed to gender equity. You bring an intersectional feminist lens to your work – including your analysis, collaborations, and communication style.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The PLE Coordinator will help LEAF strengthen and grow the capacity of our Ontario PLE program in its objective to increase access to justice through workshop delivery and online legal information materials.
More specifically, the PLE Coordinator will be responsible for the following:
- Working with the PLE Manager to implement LEAF’s Ontario PLE Program 3-year plan (2025-2028)
- Delivering PLE workshops to high school, post-secondary, and community organizations throughout Ontario
- Supporting the updating and maintenance of existing curriculum and materials for all educational programs, in consultation with volunteer branches, youth-focused organizations, youth, LEAF’s PLE Committee and LEAF’s Care Economy project team
- Supporting the creation of new curriculum and materials in response to community and branch requests
- Helping to develop digital and new media PLE materials to address barriers to access and reach a wider audience
- Supporting branches in developing relationships with local school boards and engaging in outreach to community organizations serving youth and newcomers
- Coordinating the development and implementationof a standard PLE volunteer program
- Delivering training to branch volunteers at LEAF’s Ontario branches, including through an annual PLE train-the-trainer session
- Supporting the creation and implementation of a centralized system for workshop requests and assignments
- Supporting the central collection and review of workshop feedback from participants and facilitators
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- A post-secondary degree or equivalent experience in education, social sciences, humanities, and/or a related field
- Expertise in plain language communication
- Experience designing and/or facilitating public legal education workshops
- Experience designing and/or facilitating educational workshops for youth (high school and college/university)
- Experience working with volunteers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work independently and also as part of a team
- Demonstrated commitment to intersectional feminism and/or social justice, including experience within social justice movements and/or organizations
The ideal candidate will also have:
- An academic background in law or education
- Experience in designing and/or facilitating virtual public legal education workshops
- Experience in developing and delivering “train the trainer” models
- Proficiency in French
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
This is a full-time, three-year contract. The successful candidate will receive a salary of $73,500, and additional benefits that include three weeks’ vacation to start, three weeks of paid sick leave, up to two weeks of paid caregiver leave, five paid personal leave days, a week-long December holiday office closure, an annual budget for continuing professional development, and immediate enrolment in LEAF’s comprehensive benefits plan, which includes generous health and dental benefits. LEAF also hosts celebrations of staff members’ birthdays and enjoys monthly catered team lunches together.
LOCATION
We envision this role as a hybrid position requiring the successful candidate to work out of LEAF’s office in downtown Toronto at least two days a week. That said, we are open to fully remote work for the right candidate.
HOW TO APPLY
LEAF encourages applications from candidates who reflect the diversity of our communities. We strongly encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, and racialized people, as well as from newcomers, gender-diverse people, and members of other equity-deserving groups. If you are comfortable, please indicate in your cover letter if you identify as a member of an equity-deserving group.
LEAF welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities for all available positions. Where possible, accommodations will be made available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
To apply, please submit the following to [email protected] as a single PDF attachment:
- Your cover letter (maximum 1 page)
- Your resume
- A list of three references (contact name, phone number, and email address)
In the subject line of your email application, reference “LEAF PLE Coordinator”.
Please address your application to the Hiring Committee. In your cover letter, please ensure that you explain why you would like to work at LEAF and why you are qualified for the position as tied to the duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and experience listed above. Please do not submit multiple applications or send additional documents.
HIRING TIMELINE
Applications for this position will be accepted until 11:59pm ET on July 30, 2025. Interviews will take place virtually. The ideal starting date for this position is September 2, 2025. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
