The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre – part of a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
Key Responsibilities
Contracts management and research support
- Review and approve institutional contracts to ensure full compliance with ILRI and CGIAR policies and applicable legal requirements.
- Oversee the sign-off and dispatch process for institutional contracts ensuring that complete and fully signed contracts are in place and properly filed as required.
- Manage the legal unit’s contracts repository ensuring the folders are updated with current documents and properly organized for ease of retrieval of documents.
- Review due diligence checklists required by donors and/or partners for completeness and provide research teams with required information and documents to facilitate this process.
Legal and corporate compliance
- Maintain and update databases of key ILRI and Kapiti institutional/legal documents especially in relation to assets records, policies, procedures, legal disputes, lab notebooks and other institutional records (including hosting arrangements).
- Monitor and ensure timely and accurate updates and renewals of all hosting services agreements.
- Monitor and follow up on the status of legal cases and claims.
- Conduct research on emerging legal issues and advise management on any related legal risks and/or required measures to ensure full compliance.
- Prepare training materials for ILRI staff and management on emerging legal issues.
- Manage certification, notarization and authentication of documents.
- Manage requests for templates, documents, clarifications, and other queries to the legal unit ensuring that the unit’s SharePoint materials are updated as required.
- Perform other tasks as may be assigned from time to time to assist the Legal Unit achieve its mandate.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in law.
- Relevant professional certification.
- An advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
- Six years’ relevant experience.
- Post-admission experience in an in-house legal team in a large corporate, an international organization or a busy law firm handling contracts, litigation and human resources related matters.
- Demonstrate good grasp of relevant laws including but not limited to laws governing International non-profit organizations; Kenyan Law and the Constitution of Kenya 2010; Intellectual Property Law and related International Laws and Treaties, Labour Laws and Corporate governance.
