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 Specialist Counsel, Data
Privacy and Technology is a senior legal professional with significant,
knowledge, skills, experience and expertise in relation to Data Privacy and
Technology law and is responsible for providing advice, support, and research
on diverse subject areas to support IATA’s business activities, governance
activities and IATA’s advocacy activities. The Senior Specialist Counsel Data
Privacy and Technology reports to the Assistant Director, Associate General Counsel (AGC)– Regulation,
Governance and Risk (RGR).
What your day would be like
- Provides
independent advice on substantive and procedural questions of considerable
complexity, relating to data privacy and technology law, public law
relevant to IATA’s operations and advocacy on behalf of IATA’s members 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
- 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 in data privacy, preferably relating to
airline activities.
- 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!
