AVP/VP Legal

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial, partnership, collaboration, NDA, MOU, service, grant and donor-funding agreements
• Lead legal documentation for capital-markets and lending activities, including fund, bond, note, loan, credit, security and term-sheet documentation
• Negotiate directly with counterparties and maintain standard templates, preferred positions and fallback positions
• Draft, review and maintain AML/KYC, anti-bribery and corruption, data protection and safeguarding policies
• Monitor compliance by IIX and third parties
• Track regulatory developments across relevant jurisdictions and lead legal risk assessments and compliance reviews
• Support entity set-up, relocation and restructuring as IIX expands into new markets
• Conduct multi-jurisdictional legal research and provide practical guidance
• Advise leadership on strategic matters, new products and market entry
• Select, instruct and manage external counsel, including scoping work and controlling legal spend
• Manage disputes and pre-litigation matters and oversee litigation strategy and counsel
• Own the contract repository, template library and approval workflow
• Use document-management and legal-tech tools to improve turnaround and record-keeping
• Build playbooks and run training for non-legal teams

• Law degree and admission as a lawyer in your jurisdiction
• 8+ years’ post-qualification experience
• Experience at a leading law firm, in-house at a bank, fund, DFI or impact organization, or a combination
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills across commercial contracts, employment law and finance or credit documentation, including loans, bonds and security
• Working knowledge of the laws of at least one of Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom or the United States
• Track record managing external counsel, disputes or cross-border expansion and restructuring
• Experience advising senior management directly, with some litigation exposure
• Demonstrated ability to work across cultures and handle complex issues without clear answers
• Native-level proficiency in English
• Ability to work independently and manage a high-volume, multi-jurisdiction workload with little supervision
• Interest in impact investing, gender-lens and climate finance
• CV, brief cover note and short redacted drafting sample required for application

• Opportunity for professional growth within a pioneering sustainable finance institution
• Work at the intersection of law, finance, and impact
• Join a diverse and mission-aligned team reshaping capital markets
• Gain experience in global, cross-sector legal and credit documentation practices
• Equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive team