Senior Paralegal, Governance

Client Earth is a leading not for profit organisation working across four key impact areas: climate, nature, health and justice. You will join Client Earth’s Governance & Legal Services Department . The G overnance Legal Services Department is Client Earth’s in-house legal team driven to enable Client Earth to deliver innovative legal strategies while managing risk and legal & regulatory compliance in a manner consistent with our organisational values.

The role covers both providing direct support to manage governance meetings and documentation, and creating systems, processes, and a framework of best practice s to empower Management Bodies and staff .

Meet your Manager

In this role, you will be managed by Amy Rose. Amy manages Client Earth's Governance and Legal Services Department, overseeing Client Earth’s governance, risk and compliance, and managing its various related legal entities globally. This includes ensuring that Client Earth company and staff comply with legal, professional, and ethical obligations, and supporting Client Earth contracting and contractual compliance.

Amy specialises in strategic impact litigation and oversees the management of Client Earth's diverse and growing litigation portfolio. She focuses on supporting our legal teams to bring a wide range of climate and environmental cases across Europe and around the world.

Amy is a member of the Global Leadership Group, and the President of Client Earth (Luxembourg) ASBL. Before joining Client Earth, Amy was the Head of Litigation at Altisource Portfolio Solutions in Luxembourg, where she managed a large and diverse portfolio of multinational cases. Prior to moving to Europe, Amy worked as a general commercial litigator at the global law firm of Squire Sanders (now Squire Patton Boggs) in San Francisco, California.

• Provide secretariat support to Client Earth UK Board of Trustees, working closely with the Assistant to the CEO and Board to ensure the well-coordinated delivery of meetings, including coordinating and facilitating scheduling, forward planning, setting of agendas and invitations, and managing, filing, and maintaining all required documentation.
• Support the flow of relevant governance information between Client Earth Group and Client Earth Americas to maximise efficiencies and facilitate effective coordination.
• Coordinate the governance of all Client Earth Group entities, working closely with the General Counsel, Heads of Country , in-country governance leads , and national Management Bodies to ensure the effective and aligned delivery of Group Governance Board and Management Body meetings, i ncluding supporting and coordinating with them on: scheduling, forward planning, setting of agendas and invitations, drafting resolutions, managing, filing, and maintaining all required documentation.
• Lead the design and continual improvement of Client Earth’s governance framework and . strategic thinking on evolving Client Earth’s governance structures to meet the organisation’s needs over time.

See the job description (below) for a full list of duties for this role.

• Understanding of the charity / non-profit sector and charity / non-profit governance (essential)
• Experience managing board meetings and related documentation and processes (essential )
• Good knowledge of setting up and managing effective administrative processes, systems , and procedures (essential)
• Knowledge of statutory and regulatory requirements for a charit able organisation and company (essential) in multiple jurisdictions relevant to Client Earth (desirable)

See the job description (below) for a full list of requirements for this role.

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Flexible working:
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Employer. Visit our Flexa Employer page for more information on our approach to flexible working. Our flexible working policy allows our people the choice to decide to work from home/another location in the country where their contract of employment is issued for 80% of their month, with the other 20% of their month being office-based See our Benefits page for more as well as our flexible working FAQ.

Please note that Client Earth is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in the UK.

Client Earth is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal services to third parties.

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