ILRI Vacancy: Legal Officer (Closing date:23 August, 2024)

CGIAR System Organization; Montpellier; Sur place; EUR 45 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is seeking a Legal Officer to oversee institutional research contracts and ensure legal compliance for operational teams. The position, which focuses on managing legal documents and advising on legal risks, requires relevant legal certification and six years of experience. This is a 3-year contract role based in Montpellier, France, offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

Prestations

Competitive salary and benefits package

Pension plan

Medical and other insurances

Qualifications

• Six years’ relevant experience in contract management and compliance.
• Demonstrated legal expertise in international non-profit and corporate governance.
• Preparation of training materials regarding legal issues.

Responsabilités

• Manage and approve institutional contracts for compliance.
• Conduct research on legal issues and advise on compliance.
• Maintain and update databases of institutional legal documents.

Connaissances

Contract management

Legal compliance

Research skills

Analysis of legal issues

Formation

Relevant professional certification

Advocate of the High Court of Kenya

Description du poste

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Legal Officer to manage institutional research and operational contracts, take charge of and manage the unit’s repositories and databases for efficient provision of legal services to ILRI’s research and operational teams and provide general support to the legal unit.

ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR Research Centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa.www.ilri.org

Key Responsibilities

Contracts management and research support

• Review and approve institutional contracts to ensure full compliance with ILRI and CGIAR policies and applicable legal requirements.
• Oversee the sign-off and dispatch process for institutional contracts ensuring that complete and fully signed contracts are in place and properly filed as required.
• Manage the legal unit’s contracts repository ensuring the folders are updated with current documents and properly organized for ease of retrieval of documents.
• Review due diligence checklists required by donors and/or partners for completeness and provide research teams with required information and documents to facilitate this process.

Legal and corporate compliance

• Maintain and update databases of key ILRI and Kapiti institutional/legal documents especially in relation to assets records, policies, procedures, legal disputes, lab notebooks and other institutional records (including hosting arrangements).
• Monitor and ensure timely and accurate updates and renewals of all hosting services agreements.
• Monitor and follow up on the status of legal cases and claims.
• Conduct research on emerging legal issues and advise management on any related legal risks and/or required measures to ensure full compliance.
• Prepare training materials for ILRI staff and management on emerging legal issues.
• Manage certification, notarization and authentication of documents.
• Manage requests for templates, documents, clarifications, and other queries to the legal unit ensuring that the unit’s SharePoint materials are updated as required.
• Perform other tasks as may be assigned from time to time to assist the Legal Unit achieve its mandate.

Requirements

• Relevant professional certification.
• An advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
• Six years’ relevant experience.
• Post-admission experience in an in-house legal team in a large corporate, an international organization or a busy law firm handling contracts, litigation and human resources related matters.
• Demonstrate good grasp of relevant laws including but not limited to laws governing International non-profit organizations; Kenyan Law and the Constitution of Kenya 2010; Intellectual Property Law and related International Laws and Treaties, Labour Laws and Corporate governance.

Terms of Appointment

This position is at job levelHG 14and it is only open to Kenyan nationals. The position is a 3-year contract, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding. ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes pension, medical and other insurances.

How to apply:Applicants should send a cover letter and CV expressing their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to the Director, People and Organizational Development through our portal ilri.simplicant.com on or before23 August 2024of the cover letter. The position title and reference numberREF: IPP-LO/1519/2024shouldbe clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.

We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants’ bank accounts.