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inDrive is seeking an experienced Head of Legal to build and lead the legal function for an expanding ecosystem of international non-profit, holding, and operational entities dedicated to high-impact social, educational, cultural, philanthropic, and sustainability initiatives worldwide. Supported by a leading global technology group, the organization implements systemic impact programs across multiple jurisdictions.
The role combines strategic legal work related to separation, structuring, and migration of impact projects with ongoing legal leadership for international non-profit operations, partnerships, grants, project launches, governance, and risk management. You will oversee the legal architecture of the organization's international structure, including multi-jurisdictional corporate governance, international compliance, contracting, legal risk management, and coordination of external counsel.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Legal Support of Projects and Initiatives: Lead legal support for launch and operation of educational, cultural, environmental, sports, and other social impact initiatives across jurisdictions. Advise project teams on legal structuring, regulatory requirements, partner due diligence, participant terms, project policies, data/privacy matters, and local compliance. Provide practical legal advice on donations, grants, sponsorships, charitable funding, and cooperation with non-profit, institutional, and corporate partners. Review public communications, marketing materials, and external-facing materials requiring legal review.
2. International Structuring & Governance: Lead legal work for registration, restructuring, and maintenance of legal entities across multiple jurisdictions. Govern the legal framework linking independent entities, corporate donors, and project partners. Manage corporate governance matters including board resolutions, minutes, charters, bylaws, and corporate documents. Support governance structures for international audit, independence, and deconsolidation. Coordinate relationships with external counsel, regulators, banks, notaries, and corporate service providers.
3. Strategic Carve-Out & Project Migration: Lead legal workstreams for operational separation and transition of impact initiatives from corporate sponsor to independent non-profit governance. Oversee systematic transfer of contracts, intellectual property, personal data, participant databases, websites, social media accounts, and digital assets. Draft and negotiate Transition Services Agreements and Service Level Agreements. Identify and mitigate legal and operational risks.
4. Contracts, Commercial & IP Management: Draft, review, and negotiate international agreements including donation/grant agreements, sponsorship agreements, service agreements, partnership agreements, licensing agreements, vendor agreements, NDAs, and terms of use. Establish scalable legal playbooks, contract templates, approval workflows, and guidelines. Support protection and proper use of intellectual property and brand assets.
5. Regulatory Monitoring & Risk Management: Proactively monitor regulatory developments in NGO law, charitable activities, international fundraising, data privacy, sanctions/compliance, and tax requirements. Advise leadership on legal requirements to preserve non-profit status and governance integrity. Identify, assess, and manage legal risks. Develop practical legal solutions. Oversee KYC, AML, sanctions screening, and third-party due diligence processes.
6. External Counsel & Legal Function Management: Coordinate and manage external legal counsel and service providers across jurisdictions. Ensure quality, consistency, and timeliness of legal advice. Build and maintain an efficient internal legal function. Act as main legal point of contact for executive leadership and project teams.
Requirements:
Education: Degree in Law from a recognized university.
Experience: 8+ years of professional legal experience. Experience with international legal projects, non-profit organizations, charitable initiatives, corporate governance, cross-border contracting, and legal risk management. Experience advising or supporting non-profit organizations, charitable foundations, NGOs, social impact initiatives, sustainability projects, or philanthropic structures. Experience working on complex cross-functional and multi-jurisdictional projects. Experience coordinating external legal counsel and service providers across jurisdictions.
Technical Expertise: Strong expertise in contract drafting and negotiation, corporate governance, non-profit regulation, legal structuring, and legal risk assessment. Strong understanding of legal aspects of charitable activities, donations, grants, sponsorships, partnerships, and project-based operations. Ability to conduct complex legal research, analyze laws and regulations, and provide clear, practical, risk-based recommendations. Ability to develop legal templates, policies, workflows, and scalable legal processes.
Languages: Professional fluency in written and spoken English.
Personal Attributes: High level of ownership, autonomy, and responsibility. Strong judgment and ability to make sound legal decisions with limited supervision. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills. Practical, solution-oriented, and impact-driven approach to legal risk management. Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously. Attention to detail combined with ability to see broader strategic picture.
Distinct Advantages: Experience managing legal workstreams for carve-outs, spin-offs, reorganizations, or transfers of projects, assets, contracts, IP, and operational obligations. Experience establishing or managing legal structures across European and emerging markets. Prior experience as legal liaison between major corporate enterprise and affiliated philanthropic or non-profit structures. Experience with international fundraising, grant-making, charitable donations, or sponsorship projects. Experience in sustainability, ESG, climate, education, culture, sports, or other impact-focused sectors. Knowledge of Kazakhstan law or experience with Kazakhstan-based non-profit organizations. Proficiency in additional languages, especially Russian or Spanish.
