Legal Officer

Job title:

Legal Officer

Company:

EMBL-EBI

Job description

We are Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental institution performing scientific research in disciplines including molecular biology, physics, chemistry and computer science. We are an international, innovative and interdisciplinary laboratory with approx. 2000 employees from many nations, operating across six sites, in Heidelberg (HQ), Barcelona, Hinxton near Cambridge, Hamburg, Grenoble and Rome. Legal Services is part of EMBL’s Administration and Operations reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, with lawyers based in Headquarters in Heidelberg (Germany) and in Hinxton, near Cambridge (UK) at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), which is a world-leading bioinformatics centre providing biological data to the scientific community. We have overall responsibility for all legal matters involving EMBL. Given EMBL’s status as an International Organisation, its operation is governed by the rules of Public International Law. EMBL offers and maintains a vibrant, cooperative, team-oriented and open working atmosphere, and Legal Services is a diverse team of different nationalities and gender. We are now looking for a Legal Officer who can draft, review, negotiate and advise on a wide variety of agreements including those for the procurement of goods and services. Given EMBL’s dynamic nature, coupled with its unique status, the EMBL lawyers often need to be creative, think outside of the box and deal with the unusual; this makes for an interesting and varied caseload. EMBL has a successful history in identifying and obtaining external funds to further its research activities. The current external grant income to EMBL is in excess of €70 million per annum and in 2023 we had 474 collaborative grants. In the UK, major funders include the European Commission, the US National Institutes of Health, UK Research and Innovation councils, Wellcome, and other charitable organisations (e.g., Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Cancer Research UK). In this role you will also draft, review and negotiate agreements related to research grants, related consortia and collaboration agreements and whilst it’s important that you can demonstrate a keen interest in this area, we are willing to provide training to the right candidate, on this aspect of your role, if necessary. We support hybrid working and whilst we are recruiting for a full-time post, we may consider part time (minimum 4 days per week) for the right candidate. If you don’t meet all of the requirements but you meet most of them and are interested, we still encourage you to apply. You will be part of EMBL Legal Services under the local remit and guidance of the EMBL-EBI Principal Legal Officer based in Hinxton, near Cambridge in the UK, who you will report to. -Drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a wide variety of agreements including those for the procurement of goods and services including IT related contracts and those relating to external grant funding and research collaborations (we are willing to provide training on the latter if necessary) -Day-to-day legal advisory to internal stakeholders on a wide variety of sometimes complex matters -You are expected to work collaboratively and effectively with various stakeholders, both at Headquarters and locally; these include scientific clients and scientific service teams, Grants Office, Procurement, Technology Transfer/IP, Data Protection and Compliance -You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development and improvement of processes -You may be required to travel to Heidelberg, Germany from time to time to ensure alignment with the Legal Services team members based in HQ -You will be provided with training and support to understand relevant processes, tools, systems and EMBL’s status as an intergovernmental organisation.

Expected salary

Location

Italia

Job date

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 22:55:10 GMT

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