Director of Legal Affairs

Posted By: The Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority

Employed By: The Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority

Job Title: Director of Legal Affairs

Salary: € 108,152 - €133,755 (LSI2)

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week

Location: Dublin 2, Ireland - Hybrid

Application Deadline: October 28th at 12 Noon

Job description:

This is an exciting new opportunity for a person to fill a new role as Director of Legal Affairs. This role will be a senior role in the organisation, establishing, developing and overseeing the Legal Affairs Unit.

The Director will provide professional high-quality legal advice, expertise and support to the Board, while also contributing to and supporting governance, decision making and management practice within the AHRRA. In this role, you will take a strategic view on judicial review and other legal cases through a standardised litigation approach and advise the Board and senior management team accordingly at all points of the decision-making process in relation to those cases.

The Director of Legal Affairs will manage the relationships with external legal agents and counsel and oversee the tendering process for external legal support. In addition, the Legal Affairs Unit will have the role of ensuring widespread sharing of legal knowledge within the AHRRA and improvements in decision making and processing where necessary due to legal developments at national and EU level.

The post holder will also be required at a later stage to design and implement processes to investigate complaints received against license holders, submitting investigation reports for consideration by the AHRRA and seeking High Court confirmation of decisions or sanctions as appropriate. The post will involve management of staff and liaison with the AHRRA’s legal agents.