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TrustLaw
TrustLaw is the world’s leading pro bono legal service. The service and wider programme helps high-impact NGOs and social enterprises, including media organizations, to grow, streamline their operations and navigate complex laws and regulations by connecting them with free legal assistance from the best law firms and corporate legal teams 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, and we deliver innovative capacity-building workshops for practical guidance on legal issues.
Legal requests range from everyday operational and commercial matters – such as corporate structuring, intellectual property, non-profit governance or employment advice – to large-scale cross-border legal research projects. Research projects are based on NGO priorities across social or policy issues ranging from freedom of expression, to human trafficking, data and digital rights and social innovation policy, with a growing number in Thomson Reuters Foundation focus areas of media freedom, inclusive economies and human rights.
About The Role
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is recruiting a Senior Legal Officer for TrustLaw to bring specialist media freedom and to implement a new media freedom project focused on East and Southern Africa. The position may be based in Thomson Reuters’ offices in Nairobi or Johannesburg.
As a Senior Legal Officer for TrustLaw, you will:
The candidate
This is a fixed term two-year contract based in Nairobi or Johannesburg, starting ASAP. The salary is commensurate with experience.
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