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 (SSC)
Anti Trust is a senior legal
professional with significant, knowledge, skills, experience and expertise in
relation to anti trust, competition law and governance and is responsible for providing advice,
support, and research to support IATA’s standard setting, programs and industry legal activities, both internally
and externally. The SSC reports to the Assistant Director, Associate General
Counsel Standards and Programs Governance.
What your day would be like
- Provides independent advice on
substantive and procedural questions of considerable complexity, particularly
with respect to anti trust and competition law and may also include those
related to international air law, administrative law, litigation, dispute
resolution, economic and technical regulations and policy relevant to the
airline industry 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!
