Legal Counsel, India (12 Month FTC)

Role's Responsibilities

The CIFF Legal team supports the organisation in its grant making activities and partnerships, as well as providing advice on a range of compliance and regulatory matters (e.g. charity law and data protection). The team also advises on programme-specific issues, ranging from compliance with regulatory restrictions to intellectual property advice, as well as being responsible for the administrative / company secretarial needs of the organisation. This includes risk reviews, insurances, local legal filings etc.

This is an exciting opportunity for a new Legal Counsel to join CIFF in its Delhi office. You will report to the Senior Legal Counsel, but will work with other members of the larger legal team as needed.

Key Tasks

• Drafting contracts and negotiating with CIFF's grantee and partner organisations in children's development and climate change, as well as related activities (monitoring and evaluation contracts, consultants)
• Advising and supporting on other legal matters as needed, including governance, compliance, data protection, and safeguarding
• Tracking relevant legal updates as applicable to the foundation and it's partners in implementation of programmes in India including under FCRA, FEMA, data protection law and Companies Act.
• Managing external counsel in the provision of advice and training / know-how where appropriate.
• Advising on appropriate legal structures for providing funding to grantees
• Conducting legal due diligence on CIFF India's proposed grantees / partners
• Building and managing relationships with other key stakeholders including programme, IT, HR, Finance, Comms and Partnership teams
• Supporting the Senior Legal Counsel in maintaining an appropriate compliance framework and record retention to manage and mitigate legal risk
• Ad hoc legal advice on a variety of matters relating to programme issues, legal and regulatory concerns, programme governance issues, conflicts of interest, commercial contracts and consultancy contracts.
• Contribute to legal process improvements that enhance efficiency and risk management
• Willing to drive change, improve processes and generally make colleagues more aware of the importance of legal issues. Work with all aspects of a rapidly growing organisation
• Serve as an active member of the Legal team, collaborate with other members of the Legal team and foundation personnel as appropriate

Membership of the team

Requirements

Skills & Experience

Key working relationships

Management dimensions

Benefits

The salary for this role starts from 2,568,800 INR and is a 12 Month FTC. CIFF operates a hybrid work policy across all locations, which means employees work in the office and some of the time from home. We are happy to provide more information on this as part of the recruitment process.

Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package here at CIFF that includes, but is not limited to the following.

Please submit your application on or before Wednesday 27th October. CIFF reserves the right to close the job advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

Skills Required

Regulatory issues, Corporate Governance