Legal Landscape is a free website that explains New Zealand law in plain language for migrants, international students and temporary workers, in six languages, and points people to free help. It provides legal information, not legal advice. The English and Chinese content has been reviewed by a person; the other four languages are machine-assisted, and the site says so. It has been running since November 2025 and reaches about 93 people per day.
It is being put on a proper footing as a charitable trust and is not yet incorporated or registered with Charities Services. A national law firm took the matter on through its pro bono programme in September 2026, and the engagement is concluded. We are looking for two trustees who are independent of the founder, and this seat is for someone who works with migrants, former refugees, international students or temporary workers, or who has been through that experience themselves.
The founder is not the audience. This trustee is the check on whether the service is genuinely useful to the people it is built for: whether the language is clear to a reader with limited English, and whether the tone is right for someone who is frightened or being exploited.
Comfort with budgets, bookkeeping or an annual return is welcome alongside that, since a registered charity reports every year, but it is not the main thing being asked for.
Unpaid, no donation expected, roughly two meetings a year. It is also a real legal responsibility: a trustee of a charitable trust has duties under the Trusts Act 2019, and this is a role to weigh properly rather than wave through. You would join as an individual, not on behalf of any employer. Legal Landscape is an independent project: no organisation it refers to runs, endorses, or oversees it.
For what the role asks, what becomes public, and what you should know before saying yes, email hello@legallandscape.tech and I will send you a page outlining it. Questions welcome before any commitment.
Email hello@legallandscape.tech, or use the apply button, with a few lines about who you are and why this interests you. There is no need for a CV or a cover letter.
I will reply with a page that sets out what the role asks, what becomes public, and what I would want you to know before you say yes, including where the service's safeguards remain incomplete. After that, we can talk on a call or in person, whenever suits you.
Nothing is a commitment until the trust deed is signed, which will not be before early 2027. Questions before applying are welcome, and a no at any stage costs nothing.
Legal Landscape is a free website that explains New Zealand law in plain language for migrants, international students and temporary workers, in six languages, and points people to the free help that already exists. It provides legal information, not legal advice.
It has been running since November 2025 and reaches about 93 people per day. It carries no advertising, requires no account, takes no revenue, and does not sell anything about the people who use it.
It is being established as a charitable trust and is not yet incorporated or registered with Charities Services. A national law firm is acting pro bono on the formation and registration. It was built and is run by its founder, and it is recruiting its first board.