Fairtrade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect. FLO-CERT, an independent international certification company provides the credibility, trust and transparency behind the Fairtrade Label.
With over 2000 clients in more than 70 countries, FLO-CERT has become one of the world’s leading social certification bodies – empowering over one million farmers and wage workers and their families in the global south through access to the Fairtrade market.
FLO-CERT GmbH currently has a vacancy in its Central Services department for a customer orientated, service driven and energetic new staff member with an interest in FAIRTRADE:
TITLE
Legal Advisor (m/f)
FUNCTION
- Provide In-house legal advice to the Fairtrade movement.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Working closely with the Head of Legal Services and general management. You will provide practical legal advice in a broad range of issues, focusing mainly on contracts, corporate governance, risk management and employment related issues.
TASKS
- Lead negotiations and draft commercial contracts.
- Ensure that agreements and practices are compliant with the company’s commercial standards and policies.
- Develop and maintain good corporate governance practice within the organization and support external subsidiaries with legal requests.
- Develop In-House trainings for members of the organization on Legal Issues.
- Provide responsive, quality work to all clients, ensuring that Legal Services becomes involved in a timely manner in all appropriate matters so as to effectively identify and address areas of risk to the business.
- Contract management duties such as: ensuring contract database is complete, providing clients with pro-forma agreements, guiding clients on use of acceptable negotiating positions and validation of client-negotiated agreements.
- Facilitate external trainings to Fairtrade stakeholders.
REPORTING TO
Head of Human Resources and Legal Services
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Necessary:
- Law school graduate & Bar member or eligibility.
- Fluent in English.
- Excellent communication skills, team player, flexible, experience in dealing with different cultures.
- Strong dedication towards customer service.
- Excellent communication skills and facility in cross-cultural communication.
- Excellent written and verbal communication is essential together with the ability to deal with culturally diverse internal and external customers.
- Team player with the ability to manage their own workload independently, as well as having efficient time management skills and the ability to work well under pressure with varied workloads.
- Motivation for Fairtrade.
Advantageous:
- An understanding of risk assessment and ability to take a creative and flexible approach to the business.
- Fluent in another European language written and spoken.
- Work experience as In-House Counsel working in an International Organization.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- Job Share: 100%.
- Position is based in the FLO-CERT Office in Bonn, Germany.
- Start date: As soon as possible
- The office language is English.
- Salary is paid according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement Category (Tarifvertrag Groß- und Außenhandel, Nordrhein-Westfalen), Salary Range VI a plus an attractive benefits package.
- 30 days of holidays.
TO APPLY
- For applying, please visit the FLO-CERT vacancy website:
www.flo-cert.net/flo-cert/main.php?id=8
Please follow here the application procedure for submitting your application documents in English, with Curriculum Vitae, motivation letter and salary indication to Mr. David Holzwarth.
- Deadline for applications: 4th of July 2010.
Please consult www.flo-cert.net for more information on FLO-CERT GmbH and the Fairtrade movement.
- Please note that only those invited for an interview will be contacted. -
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