About the Role
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is recruiting a dynamic Legal Project Manager to drive and deliver the legal and programmatic activities for key donor‑funded projects and serve as the point person and lead for the Access to Law team on these projects. The position is based in London and reports to the Head of Special Projects, working closely with regional TrustLaw team members.
Responsibilities
- Manage and drive the delivery of legal activities on donor‑funded projects, including building project plans and ensuring timely, high‑quality delivery within budget.
- Escalate delivery issues or scope changes to the relevant Access to Law lead.
- Report internally and externally on progress, including to donors.
- Collaborate with the project team across TRF and contribute to project‑wide work plans, results frameworks, etc.
- Act as the TrustLaw technical lead and point person, ensuring alignment with TrustLaw’s and TRF’s processes and priorities.
- Deliver key activities and work products such as scoping and drafting pro‑bono legal requests, connecting clients with lawyers, designing and disseminating legal resources (trainings, guides, etc.), leading workshops, legal health checks, presentations, and events.
- Conduct outreach to prospective TrustLaw members or partners.
- Review legal outputs for clarity, accuracy, and alignment with TrustLaw standards.
- Maintain Salesforce and internal record‑keeping systems.
- Collaborate with Business Development colleagues to develop new legal programming proposals.
- Support other projects and tasks as needed.
Qualifications
- Experienced lawyer (5+ years) with strong legal skills and experience in pro‑bono, international development or social change.
- Background in a law firm, NGO, media house, or in‑house legal team.
- Knowledge of one of the following themes: access to law; safeguarding independent media; shrinking civic space; responsible business.
- Understanding of pro‑bono challenges and opportunities for law firms and legal teams.
- Good grasp of legal and non‑profit sectors in Europe or Asia.
- Fluency in English; fluency in French or Spanish is an advantage.
- Excellent research, drafting and analytical skills, including developing and reviewing legal outputs and resources.
- Experience managing delivery of legal programming, resources and activities, ideally in donor‑funded projects.
- Experience engaging diverse stakeholders, from senior corporate executives to NGOs and donors.
- Strong team‑playing and leadership ability to support a team to achieve results.
- Organisational skills and experience using databases; ability to support team use of systems and processes.
- Familiarity with Salesforce is favourable.
- Experience delivering trainings, workshops and events on legal topics.
- Experience inputting into a results framework and reporting on project results is a plus.
- Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment and manage multiple priorities creatively and flexibly.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Willingness to travel internationally.
- Pre‑existing right to work in the UK.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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