Counsel - Institutional and Administrative

The Counsel – Institutional and Administrative provides legal advice and services to support AIIB's operations and corporate governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with its mandate and internal legal framework. The role involves interpreting institutional documents, managing legal risks, drafting legal documents, and supporting initiatives to enhance AIIB's internal legal framework.

Responsibilities

• Tailor and efficiently render legal and policy advice to support the Corporate Secretary Vice Presidency and the Office of the President on matters related to outreach to Member governments, membership, and shareholder relations, including the admission of new Members, governance effectiveness and operations of the Board of Governors and Board of Directors, and other related matters.
• Interpret AIIB's constituent instruments and governing internal legal frameworks to inform decision-making across internal functions and governance bodies.
• Develop and negotiate legal instruments with Members on privileges, immunities, exemptions, and facilities as well as in host support arrangements in support of AIIB's global presence, including arrangements for the Bank's headquarters and overseas offices.
• Adapt legal approaches and frameworks to institutional and administrative matters across HR, ombuds, corporate procurement, administrative services, security and emergency management, ethics, integrity, records and information management, personal data privacy, digital and external communications, and IT and data governance, ensuring recommendations remain aligned with evolving institutional policies and operational needs.
• Advise, support, and continue to develop the staff grievance mechanisms of the Bank, and defend the Bank against both internal and external litigation.
• Advise the Operational Partnership Department, Policy and Strategy Vice Presidency, and Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF) Secretariat on partnerships and external cooperation initiatives and MCDF governance matters, respectively, as well as on other related issues.
• Conduct research; and draft and revise legal advice, memoranda, legal opinions, guidance, and internal correspondence to address institutional, corporate, and administrative matters.
• Align institutional documentation and policies with Bank-wide governance objectives in developing AIIB's internal legal framework.
• Implement improvements to legal workflows and document processes, embedding innovation into institutional and administrative legal practices.
• Coordinate and collaborate with legal counterparts in peer multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international institutions to exchange legal perspectives and align approaches to shared governance objectives.
• Demonstrate sound judgment and take ownership of legal advice and work outputs in line with institutional standards and values.
• Contribute to internal initiatives, including legal knowledge management, guidance tools, and thought leadership publications.
• Perform other assignments at the line manager’s request to further the superior performance of the functions of LEG.

Requirements

• Minimum five years of relevant professional experience, preferably wide-ranging experience in the relevant aspects of international organizations' (including MDBs') legal work.
• Advanced law degree, with the qualification to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
• Strong analytical skills, and excellent legal drafting and legal advisory abilities.
• Strong communication skills, including speaking persuasively and presenting ideas clearly.
• Intellectual leadership, and strong interpersonal, diplomatic, and partnership skills.
• Ability to innovate while mitigating legal risk.
• Superior level of resourcefulness, and the ability to work autonomously and harmoniously in a team.
• Excellent command of English, including drafting and negotiating legal documents.

Skills

• Legal Advisory Services
• Legal Drafting
• International Organization Law
• Legal Risk Management
• Corporate Governance
• Legal Research
• Legal Document Negotiation
• Analytical Skills
• Intellectual Leadership
• Diplomacy Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Autonomous Work
• English Legal Drafting

Languages

English