ICFO is looking for a Head of Legal Affairs to build and lead its internal Legal function and become the institution’s senior legal reference.

Reporting directly to the Executive Direction, the Head of Legal Affairs will have overall responsibility for ensuring that legal matters and legal risks across ICFO are appropriately identified, assessed and managed.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced lawyer who wants to go beyond managing individual legal matters and shape a legal capability from the ground up. The successful candidate will combine senior legal judgement and hands-on legal work with the opportunity to build the processes, tools, knowledge base and team required for ICFO’s next stage of development.

ICFO operates at the intersection of cutting-edge research, public-sector regulation, intellectual property, technology transfer and international collaboration, creating a diverse and demanding legal environment.

The internal Legal team will include a Legal Counsel and a Legal Operations Officer, complemented by specialized external legal support when required.





The role

A key initial mandate will be to assess ICFO’s current legal activity, risks and ways of working and, based on this diagnosis, design and progressively develop the Legal function.

Main responsibilities will include:
- acting as ICFO’s senior legal reference and advising the Executive Direction and other relevant institutional decision-makers on complex, sensitive and strategically relevant matters;
- taking overall responsibility for the quality, consistency and appropriate management of legal matters across the institution;
- mapping and prioritizing legal risks and defining the operating model, priorities and ways of working of the Legal function;
- providing senior legal advice on the public-sector legal and regulatory framework applicable to ICFO, including governance, transparency, incompatibilities, conflicts of interest, public funding and the legal implications of econ

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