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About the Role

The Thomson Reuters Foundation is seeking a Junior In-House Counsel to join their legal team on a part-time basis. This role offers the opportunity to develop a broad commercial legal skillset within an international, mission-driven organization, supporting a wide range of legal matters with a primary focus on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements, while also contributing to advisory work across intellectual property, media law, and data protection.

Responsibilities

Draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial contracts and agreements, including partnership agreements, grants, licensing agreements, service contracts, and website terms & conditions.
Provide legal advisory support and develop expertise across intellectual property, media law, and privacy and data protection, including licensing, defamation, content partnerships, and regulatory compliance.
Develop and maintain legal templates, guidance documents, and tools to enhance service delivery.
Manage and update the internal legal resource hub and serve as the primary contact for related queries.

Requirements

A lawyer with strong commercial legal skills.
Experience with data protection law, intellectual property law, and contract law is a plus.
3-5 years post-qualification experience in private practice or in an in-house team.
Broad legal and commercial knowledge and the ability to issue spot is critical.
Demonstrated ability to effectively and responsibly use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support legal research, contract review, drafting, and risk identification.
Experience or a demonstrated interest in the pro bono sector, with knowledge of key global development trends and/or experience working with the charitable, philanthropic, or social enterprise sector.
Proven ability to work with a diverse range of stakeholders, from senior corporate executives and partners of top law firms to social entrepreneurs, NGOs, media organizations, funders, multilateral organizations, and other beneficiaries of our services.
Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines to drive projects to completion.
An independent self-starter with an ability to design their own agenda and take responsibility to advance and complete projects.
A strong team player, able to communicate effectively with a global team.
Must have legal status to work in the UK as the Foundation will not source a work permit or visa on their behalf.

Skills

Commercial legal skills
Data protection law
Intellectual property law
Contract law
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools for legal support
Pro bono sector knowledge
Global development trends knowledge
Working with charitable, philanthropic, or social enterprise sector
Stakeholder management
Prioritization
Deadline management
Independent work
Teamwork
Effective communication

Location

Work Type

Part-time
21 hours per week

Experience Level

3-5 years post-qualification experience

Education Level

Lawyer

Benefits

Competitive salary packages
Market-leading benefits
Access to both in-house and external training opportunities

About the Company

The Thomson Reuters Foundation is the corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters, a global leader in news and information services.
As an independent charity registered in the UK, EU and the USA, they work to foster free, fair and informed societies by harnessing the power of the media, the law and data intelligence.
Their unique combination of media and legal expertise enables them to deliver impactful programmes, pro bono legal services, research, news and convenings that support a more just and sustainable world.
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions.
They serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
They are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries.

Equal Opportunity

As a global business, they rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on their business goals.
To ensure they can do that, they seek talented, qualified employees in all their operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
They also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.