Legal Counsel (Compliance) at Save the Children

Principal Accountabilities
Delivering high quality and professional advice and support to SCI Country Offices and Global Teams on a diverse range of legal issues, including:

• Advising senior stakeholders across the organisation on legal, regulatory and compliance matters
• Supporting the Head of Legal Compliance with the team’s strategy and annual planning, including overseeing the development and roll out of compliance frameworks across the organisation
• Representing the Legal Team at other cross-functional meetings and on other committees as appropriate 
• Preparing papers for SCI’s Audit & Risk Committee 
• Leading on the development and delivery of training on legal compliance risks 
• Managing potential disputes made against SCI and supporting with internal investigations as and when appropriate 
• Leading on the compliance aspects of humanitarian responses 
• Managing advice from and relationships with SCI’s external law firms and helping SCI stakeholders to interpret and apply such advice. 
• Undertake line management as appropriate and / or proactively undertaken the mentoring of more junior members of the team. 
• Carry out any other legal duties either additional to or instead of those outlined above which may be reasonably required.

Experience and Skills
Essential

• Senior level post-qualification experience gained in private practice or in-house in one or more of the following areas: sanctions, export controls, bribery laws, charity law, modern slavery or other regulatory areas or in dispute resolution 
• Demonstrated ability to business partner with a function / team / client to understand their priorities and to come to pragmatic, legally appropriate solutions 
• Sound judgement and ability to manage multiple stakeholders and tasks in a pressured environment. 
• Skilled at applying technical expertise to solving problems in a practical way. 
• Strong time management skills and ability to work efficiently to tight deadlines
• Strong inter-personal skills and proven ability to communicate technical and complex information and ideas effectively to different audiences  
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English 
• Calm disposition and positive outlook, particularly when working under pressure 
• Team player with a full appreciation of collaboration 
• Commitment to the mission, vision and values of Save the Children. 

Desirable

• Knowledge of international development / humanitarian and / or charity sectors 
• Experience working in an international organisation 
• Experience operating in a range of jurisdictions, including instructing overseas counsel.
• In-house experience 
• Ability to work in another of SCI’s core languages, aside from English (French, Arabic or Spanish) desirable but not essential
• UK or common law qualified lawyer or barrister
• Significant post-qualification experience years PQE

Education and Qualifications 

• UK or common law qualified lawyer or barrister
• Significant post-qualification experience years PQE