Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs
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GiveDirectly is hiring a Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs to serve as the primary legal partner to global functions, structuring complex corporate, commercial, funding, and data partnerships. The role focuses on legal compliance, contract drafting, regulatory risk, and building the legal foundation for data privacy and remote enablement. Based in Nairobi, this remote management-level position targets a corporate lawyer with strong data-privacy expertise.
- Primary legal partner to global functions including Partnerships, Finance, Technology, and Product
- Focus on complex corporate partnerships, funding arrangements, and data-privacy regulatory matters
- Requires LL.B, Advocate admission, and 5+ years corporate law experience
- Remote role based in Nairobi with a deadline of 05/10/2026
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Original source description
Job Title: Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs
Date Posted: 23/09/2026
Job Type: Remote
Job Level: Management
Employer: GiveDirectly
Industry: Legal
Salary: Open
Location: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Deadline: 05/10/2026
Legal Jobs, GiveDirectly Jobs. Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs manages legal compliance, drafts contracts, advises on regulatory risk, and supports global governance, requires a Law Degree (LL.B), Advocate admission, and 5+ years corporate law experience.
About this role
GiveDirectly is seeking a Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs to build our Business Affairs capability and serve as a primary legal partner to our global functions. You will help GiveDirectly structure complex corporate, commercial, funding, and charitable relationships and navigate the legal and regulatory questions that arise as the organization grows.
You will advise teams including Partnerships and Fundraising, People, Finance, Communications, Technology, Product, Grants Management, and public affairs. Your portfolio will include complex partnerships and transactions, non-standard gifts and fundraising arrangements, nonprofit regulatory matters, and organization-wide strategic initiatives.
A major initial priority will be building the legal and regulatory foundation for Data Partnerships and remote enablement. Working with Global Data Partnerships, Product, Technology, and program teams, you will develop workable approaches to data privacy and MNO data that can be used across GiveDirectly and adapted by program-facing Counsel to local contexts.
This is a broad role for a corporate and commercial lawyer with strong data-privacy expertise who can understand what teams are trying to accomplish, structure a practical path forward, and bring in specialist expertise when needed.
Responsibilities
- Build Business Affairs and advise global functions
- Serve as a primary legal partner to Partnerships and Fundraising, People, Finance, Communications, Technology, Product, Grants Management, and public affairs teams.
- Structure, draft, and negotiate complex corporate partnerships, funding arrangements, technology and vendor agreements, and other strategic transactions.
- Advise on corporate, commercial, employment, privacy, nonprofit, and operational matters arising within the teams you support.
- Partner with teams early to understand their objectives, develop workable structures, and provide practical advice on legal and business risk.
- Build templates, playbooks, and repeatable approaches that allow GiveDirectly to handle recurring work more consistently as the organization grows.
- Support fundraising, charitable giving, and public affairs
- Advise on the structure, acceptance, and administration of significant or non-standard gifts, including bequests and other planned gifts, donor-advised fund grants, restricted gifts, securities, cryptocurrency, and other non-cash contributions.
- Draft and review gift agreements, donor restrictions, planned-giving documentation, and other funding arrangements, coordinating with tax or trusts-and-estates counsel where needed.
- Advise on charitable solicitation, fundraising disclosures, sponsorships, cause-marketing arrangements, commercial co-ventures, and related nonprofit regulatory requirements.
- Support public affairs, Communications, and other teams on lobbying, advocacy, public-policy engagement, and political-activity restrictions, including applicable registration, tracking, and reporting requirements.
- Develop practical guidance and escalation pathways so teams can identify when fundraising or external-engagement activities require Legal review.
- Lead legal strategy for Data Partnerships and other strategic initiatives
- Lead legal strategy for new products, partnerships, and operating models that affect multiple programs, countries, or teams.
- As a major initial priority, develop GiveDirectly’s legal and regulatory approach to Data Partnerships, MNO data, and remote enablement.
- Serve as legal partner to Global Data Partnerships, leading the legal work required to establish relationships with MNOs, governments, and other data holders.
- Advise on data privacy, consent, data sharing, telecommunications regulation, and responsible data use, directing specialist analysis where needed.
- Draft and negotiate NDAs, data-sharing agreements, MoUs, and related arrangements, and support engagement with regulators and government partners.
- Work with Product, Technology, Programs, and program-facing Counsel to translate organization-wide approaches into workable models for particular countries and programs.
- Contribute across Legal
- Partner with other Counsel on matters that cross portfolios or require shared expertise.
- Coordinate external and local counsel where specialist or jurisdiction-specific support is needed.
- Take ownership of other priority legal matters as team and organizational needs evolve.
- Help strengthen the standards, tools, and ways of working used across our small, global Legal team.
- Qualifications
- Exceptional alignment with
- GiveDirectly Values
- and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional
Experience
- in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
- Qualification as an attorney in at least one jurisdiction, with relevant post-qualification legal experience.
- Strong corporate, commercial, and transactional experience, including structuring and negotiating complex partnerships and agreements.
- advising on complex funding arrangements, external partnerships, or other transactions involving significant legal and business considerations.
- Demonstrated expertise in data privacy and data protection, including data sharing, consent, and the use of personal or regulated data.
- Ability to understand unfamiliar legal and regulatory frameworks – including nonprofit and fundraising
- advising multiple functions and building trusted relationships with colleagues, counterparties, and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to build new legal capabilities, manage a varied portfolio independently, and direct external or specialist advisors when needed.
- Excellent written, verbal, and negotiation skills; English fluency.
- engaging with data-protection authorities, telecom regulators, governments, or other public authorities.
- negotiating data-sharing arrangements with MNOs or other holders of sensitive or regulated data.
- advising on technology-enabled products or data-intensive operating models.
- working across multiple jurisdictions, particularly in emerging markets.
- Privacy or data-protection certification.
- advising charitable organizations on fundraising, planned giving, bequests, donor restrictions, or non-cash gifts.
- with tax-exempt organization law, charitable solicitation, cause marketing, lobbying, advocacy, or political-activity rules.
- in international development, humanitarian response, or another mission-driven organization.
Requirements
- – and develop practical approaches to novel questions.
- Strong legal and business judgment, with the ability to assess risk in context and recommend a clear path forward.