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About the Role
This role plays a central part in the governance and legal operations of a global humanitarian organization, leading the corporate secretariat function and ensuring effective governance across three entities in the US, UK, and France. It involves close collaboration with executive leadership and board members to maintain compliant, efficient, and aligned governance processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead governance processes for Relief International's boards, committees, and network-level governance bodies, ensuring well-managed, compliant, and effectively documented meetings.
- Manage governance calendars, board papers, resolutions, minutes, action logs, and board member engagement across the three RI entities.
- Coordinate Senior Leadership Team governance processes, including agendas, decision tracking, action management, and escalation of matters requiring board approval.
- Oversee statutory and regulatory compliance requirements across the US, UK, and French entities, ensuring accurate and timely filings and governance records.
- Manage legal operations systems, including powers of attorney, delegations of authority, signatory registers, entity registrations, and legal records management.
- Lead Relief International's annual conflict-of-interest declaration process and maintain governance compliance registers.
- Conduct legal and compliance research on topics such as data protection, sanctions, safeguarding, anti-bribery, and anti-money laundering requirements.
- Develop governance tools, guidance materials, and awareness resources to strengthen governance and compliance practices across the organization.
Requirements
- Experience working in governance, legal operations, compliance, corporate secretariat, paralegal, or related legal administration roles.
- Strong experience supporting boards, committees, and senior leadership teams, including preparation of governance documentation and minute-taking.
- Demonstrated understanding of governance, regulatory, and compliance issues relevant to non-profit organizations, including conflicts of interest, sanctions, anti-bribery, and data protection.
- Excellent organizational, project management, and administrative skills, with exceptional attention to detail and quality assurance.
- Strong judgment, integrity, and discretion when handling confidential board, legal, and executive matters.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work across international time zones, and consistently meet deadlines.
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills and strong stakeholder management capabilities.
- Experience in an international NGO, multi-entity organization, or governance-intensive environment is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with governance frameworks in the US, UK, or France is desirable.
- Working knowledge of French is an advantage.
- Requires standard pre-employment checks.
Skills
- Governance
- Legal Operations
- Compliance
- Corporate Secretariat
- Paralegal
- Legal Administration
- Board Support
- Committee Support
- Senior Leadership Team Support
- Governance Documentation
- Minute-Taking
- Non-profit Governance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Conflict of Interest Management
- Sanctions Compliance
- Anti-Bribery Compliance
- Data Protection
- Organizational Skills
- Project Management
- Administrative Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Quality Assurance
- Judgment
- Integrity
- Discretion
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication Skills
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Remote
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
Salary/Compensations
- circa. £40k per annum
About the Company
- Relief International is an international non-profit organization that partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience and promote long-term health and wellbeing.
- Our teams work across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, delivering Health and Nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), Education and Livelihoods programming that creates the foundation for community resilience.
- We work alongside local actors to deliver safe, inclusive and evidence-based programmes that reach those most in need.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to building a representative, inclusive and authentic workplace.
- We strongly encourage applications from candidates from minoritized backgrounds and those who bring lived experience of the contexts in which we work.
- As a humanitarian organization, Relief International is committed to the safeguarding of all those we come into contact with through our work.
- We are committed to the core humanitarian principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.
- Relief International expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and uphold the values and behaviours outlined in the Code of Conduct.