Purpose of the position

MSF Japan is growing and so are its contractual and legal obligations. This is a new position, reporting to the Director of Finance and Legal, that ensures MSF Japan complies with its legal and contractual obligations, minimizes the potential legal risk and contributes to maintain a healthy relationship with suppliers and service providers, and relevant national and local regulators. In particular, personal data protection is one of important role of this position, in response to stricter regulations and heightened awareness of privacy issues in the society.

Main Responsibilities

1. Management of Legal and Compliance Team

• Manage Legal and Compliance operations described #2 to #7 below utilizing the team resources effectively
• Monitoring the service quality of Legal and Compliance and Information Security Committee and improve it with supervising Legal and Compliance Team members
• Develop, review and present to internal stakeholders legal related rules and policies including personal data protection related rules with grasping the situation of the internal business
• Evaluate a couple of Legal and Compliance Team members including their individual objective setting, monitoring and coaching of their performance and year-end evaluation
• Plan and execute annual budget including expense and human resources

2. Contract management 

• Review, advise and manage all contracts to which MSF is a party (Japanese and English, including contracts with overseas MSF sections, overseas corporations and individuals living overseas). 
• Create templates (Japanese and English)
• Organize past contracts and promote electronic contract system
• Coordinate requests to pro bono attorneys and establish trusting relationships 
• Manage seal application, management of electronic contract system

3． Legal advice to MSFJ organization including Board of Directors: 

Respond to direct consultations from department heads, section heads, and management regarding a wide range of inquiries from the various departments and the board of directors of the secretariat (including consultations regarding labour relations, regulations, and NPO articles of incorporation)

4. Information security (personal data protection)-related operations 

• Serve as a vice chair of the Information Security Committee, supporting the chair and vice chair
• Monitoring the social situation including regulation change or incidents happening in the society not only in Japan but also Euro (GDPR etc.), or other MSF movement wide and humanitarian sectors in the world.
• Implement and operate the measures to protect personal information and confidential information and comply related law and regulation planned by the Information Security Committee together with other committee members.

5. Planning and implementation of compliance and risk management measures, etc.

• Personal information, Confidential information management and other necessary training planning and implementation
• Collaboration with overseas MSF sections and participation in data protection-related working groups, etc.
• Planning and implementation of other compliance and risk management measures and systems

6. Research on relevant laws, regulations, and policies that affect the business

• Personal information, GDPR
• Copyright
• The NPO Law (1998)
• Others

7. Establishment and operation of systems for compliance with laws and regulations related to business 

8. Other legal support 

For a detailed job description, skills and experience, please see the Job Description.

職務内容、スキルおよび経験についての詳細は英文 Job Description を参照してください。

• More than 10 years of legal experience
• Corporate law firm experience (civil case experience preferred) or experience working within a corporate environment
• Personal information protection measures implementation and management experience in organizations
• People supervision and team management experience
• Qualified to practice law in Japan, the U.S., or Europe is desirable, judicial scrivener or administrative scrivener qualification depending on experience skills.
• Language: Japanese – Native level, English - Business level (able to draft documents in English and communicate with overseas lawyers. Verbal communication in English a must.)
• Have a high level of interest in and understanding of our humanitarian aid activities
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand business needs and work well with internal stakeholders and external experts. 
• Willing to grow oneself and team members through the growth of the business and organization.
• Communicate openly and think positively, without sticking to the status quo.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability of identifying issues and making improvements on their own.

For a detailed job description, skills and experience, please see the Job Description.

職務内容、スキルおよび経験についての詳細は英文 Job Description を参照してください。

・Salary is determined based on job grade.
・Flexible working hours with a standard working day of 8 hours
・Full social insurance
・Commuting allowance, work from home allowance, and child allowance (in accordance with the organization's regulations)
・Two full days off per week. In addition to annual paid vacations（24 days/year), year-end and New Year vacations and congratulation or condolence leave are available.
・Salary includes 20 hours of fixed late-night work allowance

・Probation period: 6 months
・Others： No smoking indoors in principle (smoking rooms are available)

・Retirement age 60 (with reemployment system)

・給与は職位体系グレードに基づいて決定
・1日の標準労働時間を8時間とするフレックスタイム制
・社会保険完備
・通勤手当、在宅勤務手当、子ども手当支給（当団体規定による）
・完全週休2日制。24日/年の年次有給休暇の他に、年末年始・慶弔休暇あり
・給与には20時間分の深夜勤務手当を含む
・試用期間：6か月
・その他　：屋内原則禁煙（喫煙室あり）

・定年60歳（再雇用制度あり）

Submit CV (in English), Motivation Letter (in English), 日本語の履歴書（できれば顔写真つき), 職務経歴書, 志望動機書 (和文) to the email address:  

hqhr-recruitment@tokyo.msf.org

CV(英文）、Motivation Letter（英文）、日本語の履歴書（できれば顔写真つき)、職務経歴書、及び志望動機書を、以下Eメール宛ご送付ください。

 hqhr-recruitment@tokyo.msf.org

・Please identify the position you apply for when you send us the email.
・Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
・The selection process will start in order of application.
・We will close the position as soon as we find the best candidate.

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