Senior Legal Programme Manager, EMENA

The Foundation is recruiting a dynamic Senior Legal Officer to help expand, strengthen and innovate our TrustLaw programme in the Europe, Middle East and North Africa (EMENA) region.

At a glance

Organisation:

TrustLaw - Thomson Reuters Foundation

Type:

Full-time

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job posted:

4 July 2025

Application deadline:

11 July 2025

The Foundation is recruiting a dynamic Senior Legal Officer to help expand, strengthen and innovate our TrustLaw programme in the Europe, Middle East and North Africa (EMENA) region. Reporting to the Senior Legal Programme Manager, EMENA, and working closely with the regional Programme Manager and Officer, the Senior Legal Officer will manage legal pro bono projects from TrustLaw’s community of civil society organisations, social enterprises and independent media organisations, and support the team on thought leadership initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Legal Officer at Thomson Reuters, you will be:

Scoping legal pro bono requests from our community of civil society organisations, social enterprises and independent media organisations so that the requests clearly explain the legal needs for lawyers to advise on.
Managing pro bono requests, including connecting the pro bono client with lawyers, collecting feedback and following up with the parties involved.
Designing, scoping and overseeing cross-border legal research projects, tools, resources and other content that address the most critical social and advocacy needs facing our members.
Proactive supporting of TrustLaw’s regional portfolio of law firms, corporations and other key stakeholders in EMENA to ensure TrustLaw regional quality and growth metrics are met.
Actively pursuing and cultivating relationships with law firms to secure their commitment to pro bono projects, employing persuasive communication strategies to highlight the impactful role they play in advancing social and environmental objectives through TrustLaw initiatives.
Administering the service, for example through inputting into databases, planners, and trackers, running Salesforce reports, ensuring members have up-to-date contact information, inputting into quarterly reports, responding to requests for information, etc. in a timely manner.
Contributing to the TrustLaw global annual strategy, and supporting the implementation of a regional strategy to expand and activate TrustLaw membership, ensuring we serve the best NGOs, social enterprises and independent media organisations, as well as the strongest law firms and corporate in-house legal teams.
Executing a robust communications, engagement and outreach strategy that includes member events and promotion of TrustLaw publications.
Maintaining a high profile in EMENA by attending, supporting and coordinating events for TrustLaw and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, including by speaking publicly on our work at panels, roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, trainings, conferences or other speaking engagements.

The Successful Candidate

You are a fit for the role of Senior Legal Officer if your background includes:

Legal experience (preferably with at least 1 year post qualification experience) working either in a law firm, in-house legal team or non-profit organisation.
A good understanding of the legal and NGO sectors in EMENA (and, in particular, the UK), and an understanding of the challenges and opportunities that pro bono opportunities bring to law firms and legal teams;
Experience of project management or co-ordination is highly favourable.
Excellent time management and organisational skills including the ability to effectively and independently manage multiple matters and projects in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent research, drafting and analytical skills, with strong attention to detail.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – able to establish and maintain positive working relationships internally and externally with people from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds.
Being ambitious, dynamic, and creative.
Experience in Salesforce would be favourable, experience working with databases essential.
Experience organising events or trainings would be favourable.
Fluency in English, other languages favourable (e.g. French, Spanish, German, Arabic).
Willingness to travel internationally.
Pre-existing right to work in the UK.

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