Programme Administrator TrustLaw, Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Programme Administrator TrustLaw, Thomson Reuters Foundation

The Thomson Reuters Foundation is the corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information services company. As an independent charity, registered in the UK and the USA, we work to advance media freedom, foster more inclusive economies, and promote human rights. Through news, media development, free legal assistance and convening initiatives, we combine our unique media and legal services to drive systemic change. 

We use the combined power of journalism and the law to build global awareness of critical issues faced by humanity, inspire collective leadership and help shape a prosperous world where no one is left behind.

TrustLaw is the global pro bono service of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. As the world’s leading pro bono legal service, TrustLaw helps high-impact NGOs and social enterprises, to grow, streamline their operations and navigate complex laws and regulations by connecting them with free legal assistance from the best law firms and corporate legal teams around the world. We also facilitate groundbreaking legal research on key social and policy issues that our partners use to support their advocacy and law reform efforts, and we deliver innovative capacity-building workshops on legal issues across the globe.  

In recent years, TrustLaw has also expanded to facilitate access to legal support for journalists and independent media organizations in need, to help protect and defend them from the growing legal threats used to silence or punish their reporting on matters of public interest. Leveraging our pro bono service and global legal network, TrustLaw increasingly contributes to TRF’s programmes portfolio through the delivery of innovative legal support, research and capacity-building as part of dynamic and impactful funded projects that combine TRF’s unique media and legal offerings. 

The Programme Administrator provides entry-level support with administration of global TrustLaw programming and initiatives and completes administrative tasks related to supporting the TrustLaw team. The Programme Administrator reports into TrustLaw’s Head of Delivery.

About the Role
As a Programme Administrator at Thomson Reuters Foundation, you will: 

• Work with the Head of Delivery in supporting TrustLaw team administrative duties.

• Support vetting, chasing and feedback collection of NGO, social enterprises, and legal members of TrustLaw across regions to ensure TrustLaw quality and growth metrics are met.

• Coordinates quarterly reporting, team guidance updates and supports team on Salesforce dashboards, metrics, and reporting queries.

• Administer the service, for example through inputting into databases, planners, and trackers, running Salesforce reports, ensuring accounts and projects have up-to-date information, inputting into quarterly reports, responding to requests for information, etc. 

• Provide coordination and logistical support for the annual TrustLaw Awards, and for certain priority global or regional events and initiatives as required.

• Coordinate team meetings, global internal team events, and team inductions/system set-up, and support the TrustLaw Director and Heads with scheduling team planning sessions, Hubs Week, Pro Bono Council and Advisory Board meetings and other meetings/working sessions as needed.

• Support the coordination of financial reporting and administration for the TrustLaw team, liaising with the TrustLaw Coordinator and TRF Finance department.

About You

To be our Programme Administrator , you will likely have:

• Demonstrable experience in a similar role (such as general administration, customer service, PA or similar)

• A proactive, process-oriented individual with excellent client relationship skills and strong attention to detail.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – able to establish and maintain positive working relationships both internally and externally, with people from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds.

• Fluent English is a must and additional languages would be preferred.

• A highly motivated self-starter, with an ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

• Experience with sophisticated databases, including Salesforce, an advantage.

• Experience working in the non-profit, development or legal sectors an advantage.

Please note that this is a 12mth contract.

To apply for this position, send your CV and cover letter describing how you meet the specifications for this role, what you bring to it, and your availability to start.  Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

The deadline for applications is 23:59 BST on Wednesday, 25 October 2023.
 

What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

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As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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