Legal Head Vacancy at Parantapa Sciences

About Parantapa Sciences: Parantapa Sciences work towards solving complex problems using a data-driven, community-led, and design-based approach. We develop multi-disciplinary solutions across analytics, social science, community development, marketing, legal and other areas to solve multi-layered social issues.

Name of the Post: Legal Head (Full-time)

No. of Post: 01

Location: Maharashtra

Essential Qualifications and Skills

• A minimum experience of 8 years with respect to litigation and research & analysis
• Master's degree from a recognized institution is preferred
• Considerable experience in legal research
• Excellent skills in leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Excellent skills in partnership management and communication
• Deep familiarity with the legal systems in Maharashtra including local level institutions
• Extensive trial experience

Critical Qualities

• Exercise command over the following languages:
• Fluent in Marathi and English.
• Communicative Hindi is desirable.
• Be willing to travel and relocate
• Has worked on multi-disciplinary teams in the past

Roles and Responsibilities

Some of the roles and responsibilities associated with the post include:

• Hire, manage, mentor and lead a team of in-house lawyers and legal researchers
• Manage partnerships with leading law firms, research institutions, public prosecutors and other legal partners
• Drive legal research to devise innovative approaches for the use of laws as well as adjacent and complementary laws
• Work with researchers and analysts to analyse cases to create legal insights that are creative and implementable for cases that the team will work upon
• Lead the creation of legal Playbooks with leading research institutions for the Anti Trafficking sector to be used by law enforcement and other organisations across India
• Work with law enforcement including the police to maximise impact through increased convictions
• Create training modules for the legal team
• Create legal trainings for other functions of the organisation

Website: www.parantapasciences.com

Application to be sent at: jobs@parantapasciences.com or diksha@parantapasciences.com