Employment Type: Permanent
Contract Duration:
Why you will love working here
At IATA, we represent over 350 airlines worldwide, striving to make
aviation safer, smarter, more sustainable, and inclusive.
• Our Values are not just words on a page - they are the energy behind everything we do: ONE IATA - We collaborate across teams, TRUSTED - We do the right thing, INNOVATIVE - We make tomorrow better, INCLUSIVE - We embrace diverse perspectives.
• With over 30,000 courses available, we believe in continuous learning and support your growth in an ever-changing industry.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion are our priorities. We are certified by the Equal Salary Foundation, offering equal pay and family-friendly policies.
• We encourage community involvement through volunteering and strive to make tomorrow better for aviation and our communities. We offer time off so you can support causes important to you.
• We promote work-life balance with flexible work options, including remote and hybrid work, a generous 'work from abroad' policy, and you get your birthday off!
About the team you are joining
The Senior Legal Counsel (SLC)
Commercial Law is a senior legal professional with significant knowledge,
skills, experience and expertise in relation to commercial law and is
responsible for providing advice, support, and research on diverse subject
areas to support IATA’s commercial and program activities. The SLC reports to
the Assistant Director, Associate General Counsel Commercial Law.
What your day would be like
- Provides independent advice on substantive and procedural questions of considerable complexity, which may include those related to commercial law, public law, negotiations, administrative law, litigation, dispute resolution, economic and technical regulations and policy relevant to IATA’s products and services and standard setting activities and related questions of administration and management.
- Responds to requests for legal assistance from clients and work assignments referred by AGC. Deputy General Counsel or General Counsel.
- Prepares and provides to IATA’s business groups independent legal opinions, memoranda and information papers on questions concerning the interpretation or application of law, legal instruments, or legal principles in relation to IATA’s activities across multiple jurisdictions.
- Drafts appropriate responses to correspondence and communication raising legal issues or having legal implications.
- Peer reviews work of other team members.
- Participates in legal team practice groups.
- Mentors junior members of the team;
- Collaborates with other LSCS team members.
- Drafts material on legal subjects for dissemination to airline legal members including case reviews, summaries of legal developments.
- Delivers presentations to airline members and other external in various IATA governance council meetings, taskforces and working groups.
- Manages, instructs, and approves the budget for external counsel in accordance with LSCS team processes.
- Monitors and reviews performance of external counsel.
- Collaborates with other LSCS team members across the work of LSCS and with IATA staff, external counsel and airline members.
- Communicates directly with IATA staff, external counsel, and airline members.
- Maintains strong relationships with specialist legal communities relevant to IATA’s work.
We would love to hear from you if you have
- Advanced University degree in law, (LLB, JD, LLM) from an internationally recognized university,
- Admission to practice law in a relevant jurisdiction, preferably the UK, EU member state, Canada, US, Australia or New Zealand.
- Seven years post legal qualification experience in increasingly responsible positions in an organization, government department or law firm.
- Significant legal professional knowledge, skills and experience.
- Excellent command of English.
- Superior written and oral communication skills.
- Effective, confident communicator and a team player.
- Time management.
- Demonstrates ownership of tasks.
- Demonstrates initiative.
- Strong legal research skills.
- Committed to personal development and continued learning.
- Proactively ensures their own continued professional development.
Travel Required: Y 5%
Learn more about IATA’s role in the industry, our benefits, and the team at iata/careers/. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
