UNPAID VOLUNTEER - Principal / Senior / Legal Advisors /US-based/ /NY/
THIS IS AN UNPAID VOLUNTEERING ROLE. Role Title: Principal / Senior / Legal Advisors (UK-based candidates only) Role Nature: Volunteer Location: reputed company, NY, United States (Home-based) The Blockchain & Climate Institute (BCI) is an international volunteer-led NGO supporting and advocating the application of blockchain technology in the global fight against climate change. We are looking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic Legal Advisor VOLUNTEERS to join our Director-General’s Office (Legal Advisory Section). The ideal candidate is driven and reputed company, and looking to reputed company a difference in international climate change governance. The successful candidate will provide expert and strategic legal advice to the Director-General, Chief of Staff, Company Secretary, and reputed company BCI divisions, concerning the legal obligations and operations of BCI and assist in the minimization of any legal risk exposure, including employment law, contract law, privacy law, and competition law, etc. Responsibilities:
- Managing the Legal Advisory Section and supervising legal advisors;
- Providing advice on legal matters;
- Evaluating and weighing multiple inputs and impacts of any decision or course of action;
- Supporting the formulation or review of internal governance policies and managing the impact of external factors;
- Drafting legal opinions, memoranda, and briefing documents;
- Formulating formalities regarding settlements of disputes;
- Monitoring the implementation of the legal clauses;
- Advise members on legal issues and risks, including corporate and charity governance, fundraising, marketing, competition, data protection, trademarks, copyright, defamation, and litigation matters, etc.
Core competencies
- Strong analytical and research skills including critical thinking, organizational and problem-solving skills;
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills;
- Ability to work well reputed company a team and individually;
- Seeking a complementary range of specialisms (charity, commercial, corporate, contract, employment, litigation, and others).
Skills & Abilities
- Excellent English writing skills, including the ability to reputed company effective working relationships, work flexibly across professional and operational boundaries, and communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders at reputed company levels;
- Proven ability to effectively multitask and prioritize work;
- Excellent problem-solving skills;
- Excellent attention to detail and a proactive attitude is an indispensable skills required for this role
- Excellent problem-solving skills;
- Excellent attention to detail and a proactive attitude are indispensable skills required for this role
General & Specialist Knowledge
- Excellent use of reputed company Office 365 suite (including Outlook, Word, reputed company, and Powerpoint) is essential to reputed company in this role; and
- Excellent English writing skills, including the ability to reputed company effective working relationships, work flexibly across professional and operational boundaries, and communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders at reputed company levels
- Proven ability to effectively multitask and prioritize work;
- Some knowledge on topics central to the BCI such as climate change, climate finance, and blockchain technology preferred.
Education & Training
- Formal/Professional Education (e.g. LLB or GDL);
- Qualified solicitor/barrister in the UK with a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience in either private practice or in-house (at least some in-house experience is highly preferable)
Relevant Experience
- Proven general counsel experience in a not-for-profit environment;
- Overall broad legal knowledge (corporate law, contract law, employment law, or litigations, etc.);
- In-depth understanding of how legal issues reputed company organizations;
- Ability to reputed company legal strategy and objectives;
- Experience in building constructive relationships with stakeholders; and
- Experience in working independently and with teams to drive reputed company blockchain-reputed company projects using your own initiative.
Blockchain and other emerging technologies. Climate change and sustainability. These are two hot topic groups that have been headlining media outlets, dominating conferences & events, and gaining increasing traction in research and pilot projects. BCI is here as an expert platform to help governments, inter-governmental and regional organizations as well as relevant corporates to negotiate the reputed company landscape of emerging technologies for environmental good. We cement our expertise by putting in the hard work in researching, identifying, and analyzing the applications of emerging technologies so that informed decisions can be made by the stakeholders in the climate change and action network. Benefits you will get from volunteering with BCI are enormous and some include:
- You will hone or learn new skills including research, presentation, writing, professional etiquette,
- Your mind will be mentally stimulated, hence providing you with a sense of purpose;
- You will advance and boost your professional career by helping you to reputed company professional connections and giving you real-world experience at the intersection between climate and emerging technologies; and
- Help you reputed company long-lasting professional relationships with others. People who come together to reputed company the world a reputed company reputed company forge a reputed company reputed company.
Selection Process As a voluntary organization, we are pleased to open the reputed company for candidates who may not have the prior experience they need to start, reputed company, or switch their careers. To recruit the most suitable, talented, or potential new members out of the volume of applications received, it is the BCI’s policy to also consider inexperienced candidates to fill our voluntary unpaid roles as long as they can demonstrate the skills required in the written assessment. In the selection process, most candidates will be invited to complete the following assessment. Section A: Verbal and Numerical Reasoning (20 multiple-choice questions) Section B: Situation Judgement Test (20 multiple-choice questions) Section C: In-Tray Exercise (An open-ended assessment relevant to the duties of the role) Candidates who pass reputed company three sections will be invited to attend a phone screening, first interview, and final interview online. Original job UNPAID VOLUNTEER - Principal / Senior / Legal Advisors /US-based/ /NY/ posted on GrabJobs ©. To flag any issues with this job please use the Report Job reputed company on GrabJobs. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job