Deputy Director, Legal

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Full time

The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world.

Founded on a simple premise:
that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives.

By building a global and cultural workplace that supports greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — together with our employees and partners, we can help all people improve their lives from poverty and health to education.

As an organization we offer full healthcare premiums coverage, generous paid time off, contribution to your retirement fund, several employee communities, and a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do.


The Team
"Guidance, Solutions, Integrity" describes the Legal Team's approach to providing responsive legal guidance supporting the Foundation's mission and strategy implementation. Legal Team members represent the Foundation as a whole and the Legal Team offers creative solutions that support the accomplishment of Foundation objectives, develops and implements efficient legal processes to streamline the Foundation's investment practices, and applies preventive legal strategies and policies to address risk and safeguard the Foundation's reputation.

Your Role


Serve as a member of the Foundation's Legal Team and collaborate with other team members to represent the entire Foundation and ensure effective coverage, work allocation and communication regarding legal issues across the Foundation, all from a "one legal team" and "one Foundation" perspective.

This position reports to a Director in the Legal Team based in Seattle.

The
Deputy Director, Legal will be based at the Foundation's South Africa Regional Office in Johannesburg.

What You'll Do

  • Understand and provide legal support for the programmatic, operational and business objectives of internal client groups, notably the Foundation's Africa Team, develop creative solutions, mitigate legal risks and resolve issues using the appropriate legal framework in consideration of the Foundation's values and consistent with Foundation practices and policies.
  • Structure, negotiate, and draft legal documents related to the Foundation's investments, including grants, contracts, and complex transactions and collaborations, and other Foundation activities in furtherance of the Foundation's charitable strategies (collectively, "Investments").
  • Understand legal compliance best practices for, and help ensure Foundationwide consistency regarding, Foundation Investments, including with respect to applicable laws, Global Access, data/privacy matters, charitability, intellectual property, forprofit engagement and advocacy.
  • Demonstrate generalist expertise to identify legal issues and collaborate, where appropriate, with other Legal Team members to lead the resolution of complex and strategic legal issues across Africa, in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Establish a partnership of trust with key partners and participate as a strategic and daytoday advisor.
  • Serve as the Legal Team's relationship manager for the Foundation's offices in Africa, working closely with the leadership and staff of those offices and providing guidance and helping to coordinate resources where appropriate.
  • Facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements applicable to the Foundation's offices in Africa and other Africabased activities as well as help ensure Foundationwide consistency, including developing generalist familiarity and collaborating with other Legal Team members, on operational matters, including requirements related to employment/labor, tax, business registration, cybersecurity, insurance, records retention, and workplace health and safety.
  • Build relationships with and manage outside counsel, as applicable.
  • Support training and education of Foundation personnel on legal issues, as well as grantees and partners as appropriate.
  • Keep current on and track relevant applicable new and emerging laws, policy developments and best practices, including those relating to taxexempt organizations, private foundations, crossborder giving and operational compliance across South Africa and the wider African continent.
  • Travel to the Foundation's offices in the U.S. at least three times a year and other Foundation offices, as appropriate; other travel as required.

Your Experience

  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with a minimum of 12+ years' experience in the practice of law in Africa; a combination of law firm and inhouse counsel experience preferred; current bar membership or the equivalent is required.
  • History of effectively supporting a demanding client base, serving as counselor on groundbreaking, emerging legal issues in a complex, fastpaced and evolving legal and policy environment.
  • Direct experience guiding and generally advising clients on broad a

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