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About the Role
Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) is a global health organization dedicated to creating and scaling solutions to the world's deadliest health threats. We collaborate to close the gap between life-saving solutions and the people who need them, aiming for a future where people live longer, healthier lives, communities flourish, and economies thrive.
Responsibilities
- Conduct supervised legal and regulatory research and analysis in countries where RTSL supports public health initiatives.
- Monitor and analyze legal, regulatory, and policy developments relevant to RTSL priorities.
- Synthesize legal research into clear findings, options, and practical implications for RTSL teams, governments, and partners.
- Support comparative legal and policy analyses across countries and jurisdictions.
- Maintain organized and reliable legal research and reference materials.
- Support the team's provision of legal and policy technical assistance to governments, grantees, and other partners.
- Draft, review, and edit legal, policy, advocacy, training, and presentation materials.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of legal tools, templates, guidance, and other knowledge products.
- Support the design and delivery of capacity-building activities, including workshops and trainings.
- Translate complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, accessible information for non-legal audiences.
- Coordinate with country partners, grantees, RTSL technical teams, and stakeholders to support legal work planning.
- Track priority legal workstreams, country engagements, partner requests, deliverables, and deadlines.
- Prepare background materials, presentations, and concise summaries to support technical discussions.
- Participate in meetings and consultations with government and partner stakeholders and document key decisions.
- Perform other legal, policy, research, and coordination responsibilities as needed.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor, LLM, or equivalent degree.
- Minimum 2 years of relevant legal or policy experience, including legal research and analysis, regulatory or policy analysis, public interest law, global health, or related areas.
- Demonstrated experience in conducting legal and regulatory research and producing clear written analysis.
- Prior experience coordinating projects, deliverables, or partner engagements across multiple workstreams.
- Prior experience working with or supporting government ministries, regulatory agencies, or other public sector institutions.
Skills
- Strong legal research, analysis, and writing skills.
- Ability to analyze laws, regulations, policies, and international legal instruments and identify their practical implications.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to translate complex legal and policy issues into concise, practical, and accessible guidance.
- Strong analytical judgment.
- Strong organizational and project coordination skills.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple assignments, deadlines, and stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently on defined assignments.
- Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with government officials, technical experts, partners, and colleagues from different professional backgrounds.
- Collaborative and service-oriented approach.
- Familiarity with international public health law and relevant WHO instruments, including the International Health Regulations, or demonstrated ability to develop this expertise quickly.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other relevant research and collaboration tools.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote, internationally distributed organization.
- Experience communicating legal concepts effectively to non-legal audiences.
- Experience working in or with low- and middle-income countries.
- Experience or substantive knowledge in one or more of RTSL's priority areas, such as health security, nutrition policy, health taxes, cardiovascular health, or environmental health.
- Experience supporting legislative, regulatory, or policy reform processes.
- Experience conducting comparative legal research across multiple jurisdictions.
- Fluency in French.
Location
- US
- UK
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 2 years of relevant legal or policy experience
Education Level
- Juris Doctor, LLM, or equivalent degree
Salary/Compensations
- $75,000 to $85,000 annually (US-based)
Benefits
- Health insurance for you and your dependents
- Contributions toward retirement
- Paid annual leave and sick leave, in addition to public holidays
- Two paid, week-long organization-wide breaks at mid-year and end-of-year
- Professional development and home office setup benefits
- Up-to-date computer equipment
About the Company
- Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) is a global health organization that partners locally and globally to create and scale solutions to the world’s deadliest health threats.
- We collaborate to close the gap between proven, life-saving solutions and the people who need them.
- Since 2017, we’ve worked with governments and other partners in more than 60 countries to save millions of lives.
- We work toward a future where people live longer, healthier lives, communities flourish, and economies thrive.
- RTSL is a US-based, global public health organization with a mission to accelerate action against the world’s deadliest health threats.
- RTSL has partnered with low-and middle-income country governments, multilateral agencies, academic and other civil society partners, and communities to design simple solutions that can be scaled up to stop leading health threats worldwide.
- Our legal team supports governments in reviewing their existing legal frameworks, identifying gaps and needs, and designing effective response measures across a range of technical issues including health security, nutrition, hypertension, health taxes, and environmental health.
- Resolve to Save Lives prides itself on cultivating a supportive, connected remote team doing work that matters.
- We do everything possible to ensure our employees are connected and set up for success.
Equal Opportunity
- RTSL believes its programs are strengthened when they are developed and supported by individuals with diverse life experiences whose understanding of social and cultural issues can help make our work and workforce more inclusive.
- We encourage applications from and provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, organ donor status, or status as a veteran.
- Resolve to Save Lives complies with all applicable US EEO laws.