Overview
Provide legal advice and services to support AIIB's operations and corporate governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with its mandate and internal legal framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Tailor and render legal and policy advice on outreach to Member governments, membership, and shareholder relations.
- Interpret AIIB's constituent instruments and governing internal legal frameworks.
- Develop and negotiate legal instruments with Members on privileges, immunities, exemptions, and facilities.
- Adapt legal approaches and frameworks to institutional and administrative matters across HR, ombuds, corporate procurement, administrative services, security and emergency management, ethics, integrity, records and information management, personal data privacy, digital and external communications, and IT and data governance.
- Advise, support, and develop staff grievance mechanisms and defend the Bank against litigation.
- Advise on partnerships and external cooperation initiatives and MCDF governance matters.
- Conduct research; and draft and revise legal advice, memoranda, legal opinions, guidance, and internal correspondence.
- Align institutional documentation and policies with Bank-wide governance objectives.
- Implement improvements to legal workflows and document processes.
- Coordinate and collaborate with legal counterparts in peer multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international institutions.
- Contribute to internal initiatives, including legal knowledge management, guidance tools, and thought leadership publications.
- Perform other assignments at the line manager’s request.
Required Experience
Minimum five years of relevant professional experience, preferably wide-ranging experience in the relevant aspects of international organizations' (including MDBs') legal work.
Qualifications
Advanced law degree, with the qualification to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
