Corporate and legal employee

Our client is a is an international non-for-profit association.

Tasks

Corporate Governance:

• Prepare governing bodies’ workplans and agendas;


• Liaise with the internal and external stakeholders to collect the preparatory documents for the meeting, proofread them, put them in the right format and ensure accurate and timely submission;


• Participate to the meetings of the governing bodies as required and take the minutes;


• Follow-up on the action points from the meetings by collecting input from relevant stakeholders;


• Suggest improvements to the internal workflow and be proactive in identifying upcoming issues and suggest solutions.

Legal:

• Draft legal documents;


• Review internal policies and procedures;


• Review template agreements with clients and provide assistance on legal queries;


• Review/establish contracts with service providers, with a focus on confidentiality and conflicts of interest;


• Keep the insurance portfolio;


• With the support of an external supplier, monitor the client's trademark and advise on infringements.


• Coordinate the external legal advisor in providing opinions on other legal matters. 

Required Skills and experience
 

• The person will need to have a legal background and experience in a corporate secretariat.


• He/she will need to speak French and English with proficiency.


• Good knowledge of Office (including SharePoint) is required.

To perform the role, the followings soft skills are key:

• professionalism, confidentiality, pro-activeness, accuracy, detail orientation and high writing skills in English language.


• Timely and accurate completion of tasks is an essential element of the role: therefore, exceptionally good organizational skills and the capacity to manage different priorities and a variety of stakeholders is a success factor.

Our client offers you an interim contract for a 4 month maternity leave replacement; an international environment and a challenging function. 

Salary to be seen according to experience