Summary
Date Posted: 2nd April 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full_Time , Currency: KES , Value: 27000 , Minimum: 18000 , Maximum: 81000 , Period: MONTH

JOB DETAILS:
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is recruiting a Legal Officer to work as part of the in-house legal function for the Foundation’s internal legal needs, as well as working on the TrustLaw global pro bono service.
The Foundation stands for free, independent journalism, human rights, women’s empowerment, and the rule of law. We expose corruption worldwide and play a leading role in the global fight against human trafficking. We use the skills, values, and expertise of Thomson Reuters to run programmes that trigger real change and empower people around the world, including free legal assistance, journalism and media training, coverage of the world’s under-reported stories, and the Trust Conference.
TrustLaw is the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global pro bono program. Our mission is to spread the practice of pro bono worldwide to drive social change. We help high-impact NGOs and social enterprises to grow, streamline their operations and navigate complex laws and regulations by connecting them with free legal assistance from the best law firms around the world. We also deliver groundbreaking legal research on key social and policy issues that our members use to support their advocacy and law reform efforts.
Launched in 2010, TrustLaw has grown to include over 4,500 members in 175 countries, including over 800 law firms and in-house legal teams and over 3,600 NGO and social enterprise members.
The Foundation is seeking a highly skilled and dynamic lawyer to:
• Support the Legal Manager/In House Counsel in her advisory capacity within the Foundation on commercial agreements, potential contentious issues and other strategic legal issues (approximately 60%); and
• support the TrustLaw team to run its global pro bono service, primarily focusing on scoping legal requests from NGOs and social enterprises and managing strategic research programmes (approximately 40%)..

Responsibilities
Reporting to and under the guidance of the Legal Manager/In House Counsel, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
In-House Counsel Responsibilities
• Provision of legal advice to the Foundation and its four main programmes on a range of issues, including:
o review and negotiation of a range of commercial contracts and agreements, including partnership agreements, funding agreements, service contracts, terms & conditions for websites and services;
o handling potential disputes and litigation (under the guidance of the Legal Manager/In-House Counsel) briefing outside counsel where necessary;
o media law issues (content partnerships, licensing agreements, defamation/libel claims);
o charity law issues; and
o other strategic legal issues (note that employment law expertise is not required as we rely on external advisors for this).
• Supporting the Legal Manager/In House Counsel to brief and liaise with external legal advisors on issues where the Foundation does not have the expertise or capacity to assist. Lawyers in the TrustLaw team are also able to support you on issues where they have expertise.
TrustLaw Responsibilities
• Scoping requests for pro bono legal assistance from our community of NGOs and social enterprises so that the requests clearly explain the legal needs.
• Designing, scoping and managing cross-border research programmes that address the most critical social and policy needs facing our NGO and social enterprise members.
• Managing pro bono requests, including connecting the pro bono client with lawyers and follow up with the parties involved.
• Supporting the team on thought leadership projects including the TrustLaw social enterprise and impact investing training courses..

The candidate
• A lawyer with strong corporate/commercial legal skills (any experience with media law and/or charity law would be a plus). You will have 2 to 3 years post-qualification experience in private practice or in an in-house team.
• While expertise in all of the legal areas outlined above is not essential, broad legal and commercial knowledge and the ability to issue spot is critical.
• Experience, or a demonstrated interest, in the pro bono sector, with knowledge of key global development trends and/or experience working with the charitable, philanthropic or social enterprise sector.
• The proven ability to work with a diverse range of stakeholders, from senior corporate executives and partners of top law firms to social entrepreneurs, NGOs, media organisations, funders, multilateral organisations and any other beneficiaries of our services.
• Fluent in English, with excellent written and spoken communication skills and an ability to adapt messages to different audiences.
• Ability to work quickly under pressure, to prioritise work and meet deadlines to drive projects to completion.
• An independent self-starter with an ability to design their own agenda and take responsibility to advance and complete projects.
• A strong team player, able to communicate effectively with a global team.
• Experience using Salesforce would be favourable.
This is a full-time role, based in Thomson Reuters’ offices in Vienna Court, Nairobi. The salary is commensurate with experience.
The candidate must already have legal status to work in Kenya as the Foundation will not source a work permit or visa on their behalf.
Candidates are urged to use the designated online application portal to submit their candidacy for the role. Candidates who call or email Thomson Reuters offices or who physically drop off their application may not be considered.
The deadline for applications is April 12, 2019.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one – collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With more than 25,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance – and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law..

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