Overview
The Senior Legal Counsel provides authoritative legal advice across a broad portfolio of complex and fast-moving matters, with a primary focus on enabling the development, selection, and adoption of defence and dual-use technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide legal advice that enables DIANA to conduct competitive selection and procurement processes.
- Represent the DX in the preparation and discussion of agreements, Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) or other legal documents.
- Enable multinational programmes related to defence technology development, procurement and adoption.
- Analyse and address complex legal questions affecting DIANA’s mandate and operations.
- Provide senior-level legal advice to the Managing Director, the Board of Directors, and other senior stakeholders.
- Lead the drafting and review of regulatory, procedural, and contractual documentation.
- Contribute to policy development in the legal domains.
- Maintain and develop domain expertise.
- Develop and maintain effective professional networks across NATO entities and member states.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 3 years of experience providing independent legal advice on complex compliance, regulatory, and commercial matters.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience advising on public procurement and regulatory matters in multi-jurisdictional contexts.
- Experience in providing legal advice to senior stakeholders in environments lacking clear precedent.
- Experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and delivering other high-quality legal documentation within tight timeframes.
- Experience advising start-ups and/or systems integrators in defence and/or dual use (desirable).
- Experience engaging with or working within Allied governments (desirable).
- Experience on matters involving, or experience directly advising, companies on innovative and alternative approaches to public procurement (desirable).
- Experience providing legal advice on cross-border or multinational defence programmes, covering commercial matters in technology, innovation, or R&D ecosystems (desirable).
- Knowledge of DIANA’s legal framework and mission (desirable).
Qualifications
• A Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in Law or a related field; OR Exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by at least 10 years of extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
