Legal Officer

2 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Emirates Nature-WWF Full time

Legal Officer

**Position Title**: Legal Officer**Unit**: Operations**Directly reports to**: Associate Head - Legal Counsel**Location**: Dubai office, with a Hybrid work model**Direct reports**: NA**Type of contract**: Full-Time**Date**: Q1 2024Background

Emirates Nature is a UAE environmental non-governmental charity, established in 2001 under the Honorary Founder and President H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan as a legacy of the late Sheikh Zayed’s vision for the United Arab Emirates. HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the Ruler’s representative in the Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of Environmental Agency - Abu Dhabi(EAD) Board of Directors.

We operate with offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Fujairah and are governed by a local board of directors.

Emirates Nature works in association with WWF, one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. Emirates Nature-WWF has been active in the UAE for two decades and is renowned for its commitment to biodiversity conservation, habitat protection, sustainable development, and community engagement. Some of our flagship projects include marine conservation initiatives to protect coral reefs and marine species, wildlife conservation programs focusing on endangered species such as Arabian oryx and sea turtles, habitat restoration projects in critical ecosystems, and sustainable development initiatives aimed at mitigating climate change impacts and promoting eco-friendly practices across various sectors.
It is our organizational objective to ensure a high performing workforce within our offices with highly efficient, skilled members all of whom will be unilaterally focused on supporting and delivering conservation activities to our stakeholders within the UAE.

Job summary
- As the Legal Officer to the organization, you will be placed within the Operations Unit, directly reporting to the Associate Head - Legal Counsel. In as such, you will be working with all employees, project staff and consultants within the organization, as well as partners, stakeholders, Legal Service Providers, and other entities out of the organization, in which you shall support Legal Counsel, always keeping and protecting the organizations best interests, encompassing all of our values, and ensuring ethical acts upon the way. It is essential that the individual has problem solving skills, is adaptative, and enacts quick turnaround for requests. In as such, do find the roles and responsibilities seen below, divided into percentages of work allocation that will best aid you in achieving your deliverables in line with the organization’s vision, mission, goals, and objectives. The individual is also recommended to join the WWF legal working groups should time be available.

Major duties and Key Responsibilities

**1.Legal Research (25%)**
- Update Legal Counsel on any new laws, decrees, rules and regulations that affect the organization’s business needs (including MOCD, DCD, IACAD) and providing key summary facts on how such laws impact the organization
- Thoroughly research airtight standard clauses favorable to the organization and standardizing them to be embedded within the templates
- Thoroughly research WWF standard clauses on ethical, humanitarian and environmental policies and practices, and draft suitable standard clauses tailored around the organization’s business needs to form part of the templates

**2.Templates (20%)**

a. Assisting Legal Counsel in updating all current ENWWF templates

b. Assisting Legal Counsel in creating new templates that did not exist prior

The templates that the individual is expected to assist on updating or creating during his/her tenure is as follows:

- Memorandum of Understanding
- Letter of Intent
- NDAs : mutual, unilateral & service provider
- Partnership/collaboration
- Pro bono agreement for in-kind services
- Merchandise Manufacturing agreement
- Merchandise Sales Agreement
- Ticketing Agreement
- Donation letter agreement
- Service Provider Agreement
- Grant Agreement
- Barter Agreement
- Membership for volunteering agreement
- Campaign agreement
- Event Sponsorship Agreement
- Licensing Agreement
- Freelance agreement
- Any other agreement templates required for business operations
- Liability Waiver for volunteers
- Photo Release for volunteers
- Terms & Conditions for websites & mobile app
- Privacy Policy for websites & mobile app
- Update of DOAs and POAs

**3.Administrative (20%)**
- Create and manage all documents related to any legal workshops required and assisting Legal Counsel during such workshops along with taking minutes
- Joining internal & external meetings requested by Legal Counsel and taking minutes
- Coordinating with external legal counsel with Legal Counsel’s involvement and taking minutes
- Create or update a digital storage framework for all legal documents
- Storing the old and new legal documents in the right digital locations
- Identifying legal documents that are


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