Programme Officer at Thomson Reuters

Responsibilities

This will include:

• Recruiting, vetting, managing and engaging NGO, social enterprise, and legal team members of TrustLaw’s network through strong one-to-one relationship management to ensure TrustLaw regional quality and growth metrics are met.
• Supporting multiple cross-border research and policy advisory programmes that address the most critical needs facing our NGO and social enterprise members.
• Devising and implementing a regional strategy to expand TrustLaw membership, ensuring we serve the best NGOs and social enterprises, as well as the strongest law firms and corporate in-house legal teams.
• Contributing to the TrustLaw global annual strategy.
• Seeking out and developing fruitful relationships with potential partners and members to further the mission of TrustLaw.
• Maintaining a high profile in the region by representing TrustLaw and the Thomson Reuters Foundation by speaking publicly on our work at panels, conferences, or other speaking engagements.
• Creating and executing a robust communications strategy that includes member events and promotion of TrustLaw publications,
  
  

Key Skills And Experience

• An exceptional self-starter with 2+ years of work experience, and a passion for social change.
• Top-performing undergraduate background in the field of policy, development, or social change.
• Proven organisational and project management ability and experience of managing competing priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Experience (paid or unpaid) in policy / social / not for profit sector.
• An understanding of the challenges and opportunities that NGOs and social enterprises face around the world.
• An exceptional communicator and writer with public speaking experience.
• Ambition, dynamism and creativity.
• Experience in Salesforce would be favourable.
• Fluent in English, fluency in French highly desirable.
• Willingness to travel internationally.