Lecturer and Co-Director, ICLC

Overview

Department:
Faculty | Peter

A. Allard School of Law (Ngai Pindell). Job Category:
Faculty Bargaining.

Job Title:

Lecturer and Co-Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic (ICLC). Posting End Date:
March 8, 2026. Job End Date:
July 31, 2027. The expected pay range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000 per annum. Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the conditions for a rewarding career.

The Peter

A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer and Co-Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic (ICLC). This is a one-year term appointment, eligible for renewal based on teaching excellence, subject to budgetary availability and operational needs.

We expect the appointment to commence August 1, 2026 with a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications. The expected salary range is $ - $ per annum. This position is within the UBC Faculty Association bargaining unit and is subject to the terms of the Collective Agreement between UBC and UBCFA. The appointment is an opportunity to provide educational, strategic and organizational leadership in a unique legal and academic setting.

The role includes day-to-day supervision and mentorship of law students in case file work providing legal services to an underrepresented population, ensuring the academic integrity and coherence of the student experience across experiential and classroom elements, and helping set the vision and direction of the ICLC for the medium to long term, including developing an Indigenous service model.

The ICLC is located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. It has served the community for over twenty-five years with Allard Law students providing legal services under supervision of staff lawyers. The clinic is educational in purpose and aims to promote access to justice for an Indigenous community. It offers information, referral and on-site and remote legal services across criminal, civil, family, administrative, Aboriginal law, and wills and estates.

The ICLC emphasizes decolonized legal services and trauma-informed practice. Students participate in a graded course component and clinical work, with a small student intake per term and support from supervising lawyers, an articling student, and two full-time Legal Assistants. For more information, see  and the Indigenous Legal Studies materials referenced below.

Position responsibilities and program context are described below, including teaching responsibilities, organizational leadership, and legal supervision related to student work and client files.

Teaching and educational leadership:

• Provide pedagogical oversight of the student experience (supervised legal work and classroom reflection course) to ensure quality, coherence and consistency of the clinic’s educational program.
• Coordinate with ICLC staff and faculty to provide student orientation at the start of each semester.
• Help students understand the challenges Indigenous clients face in the legal system and their ethical and professional obligations representing these clients.
• Support academic components of the program and assess improvements to the student experience based on feedback.

In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to teach the classroom course on decolonizing and Indigenizing legal practice associated with the ICLC clinical program.

Organizational and strategic leadership:

• Represent the ICLC to funding bodies, draft reports and presentations in collaboration with Allard Law’s senior leadership.
• Cultivate and support a strong team environment across supervising lawyers and ICLC staff.
• Develop an Indigenous service model for the ICLC, including implementation plans.
• Help identify objectives, priorities and opportunities for the longer-term vision and direction of the ICLC in coordination with Indigenous Legal Studies and other stakeholders.
• Foster relationships between Indigenous communities in British Columbia and the ICLC.
• Provide oversight for office management and day-to-day administration of the ICLC.

Legal supervision:

• In coordination with the Co-Director, oversee all aspects of student work on client files, maintain a moderate file load, and provide ongoing mentorship for students.
• Address ethical and file management issues and provide legal advice to assist students in negotiations and mediation.

A JD, LLB, or equivalent law degree from an approved Canadian law school is required. The…