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20 August 2026, 11:59 PM WAT (Expired)
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Job Description
Job Descriptions
Support the Legal Affairs & Compliance Division in the day-to-day management of legal matters within CAF, with a particular focus on commercial legal support, contracts, intellectual property and legal advisory support to operational divisions, while escalating sensitive, strategic or high-risk matters to the Head of Legal Affairs and the Director of Legal Affairs & Compliance.
- Support the Head of Legal Affairs in the provision of day-to-day legal services to CAF divisions, ensuring timely, accurate and practical legal support.
- Draft, review and revise commercial contracts and legal documents, including service agreements, consultancy agreements, NDAs, sponsorship-related agreements, marketing arrangements, media-related documents, and other routine legal instruments.
- Support legal work related to CAF’s commercial and business operations, including sponsorship, commercial partnerships, rights exploitation and related contractual matters.
- Assist with intellectual property matters, including protection, use and review of rights relating to CAF competitions, brands, content and commercial assets.
- Conduct legal research and prepare legal notes, summaries, opinions and first drafts on commercial, intellectual property, regulatory, governance and institutional matters.
- Support the preparation, review and updating of CAF regulations, internal legal guidelines, templates and related documents under supervision.
- Assist in the coordination and follow-up of disputes, litigation and arbitration matters, including document collection, deadline tracking, liaison with external counsel and preparation of case summaries, where required.
- Support internal legal review of projects and transactions involving CAF divisions, especially Commercial, Competitions, Finance, Communications and other business-facing functions, escalating issues requiring management decisions or strategic guidance.
- Maintain proper filing, archiving and traceability of legal documents and legal matters in both electronic and physical format.
- Contribute to the monitoring of legal deadlines, contractual obligations and pending action points across assigned files.
- Carry out any other legal tasks assigned by the Head of Legal Affairs or the Director of Legal Affairs & Compliance.
Requirements
Requirements
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or equivalent legal qualification.
- Admission to practice or professional legal qualification is an asset.
- 3–6 years of relevant professional experience as a lawyer, legal associate or in-house legal counsel.
- Experience in a law firm, international organization, intellectual property institution, regulatory environment or commercial legal practice is an asset.
- Demonstrated exposure to contract drafting, commercial advisory work, intellectual property matters, legal research and legal drafting.
- Exposure to sponsorship, media, rights management, brand protection or related commercial legal work is an advantage.
- Solid grounding in legal drafting, contract review and legal research.
- Good understanding of commercial legal work, intellectual property and institutional legal frameworks.
- Familiarity with sponsorship, media, regulatory or governance matters is an asset.
- Good command of MS Office tools and ability to work with document management systems.
- Strong drafting and analytical skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to manage several files in parallel and work under pressure.
- Strong sense of confidentiality and institutional judgment.
- Structured, disciplined and execution oriented.
- Comfortable working in a multicultural and fast-moving environment.
- Commercially minded and able to support business-facing legal matters in a practical way.
Language skills
- English (fluent, written and spoken) – required.
- French – asset.
- Interest in football governance, commercial operations and international legal practice is an asset.
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