Legal and Risk Manager

The Legal & Risk Manager will help MPP strengthen its legal, governance, and risk foundations as the organisation transitions from a start-up operating model to a more structured and scalable one. This is a hands-on role for someone who can combine sound legal judgement with pragmatism: supporting day-to-day contractual and legal needs, while also helping put in place proportionate risk, compliance, and policy frameworks across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Legal & Contract Support:

• Review, draft, negotiate, and coordinate a broad range of agreements: consultancy agreements, grant agreements, NDAs, service agreements, MSAs, SOWs, and supplier contracts.
• Support internal stakeholders in identifying legal issues early and structuring agreements in a practical and proportionate way.
• Improve contract quality, consistency, and traceability across the organisation.
• Maintain and operate contract templates, approval flows, and contract records — building on the foundation established by the external legal advisor.
• Liaise with external legal counsel where specialist or jurisdiction-specific advice is required, ensuring external counsel is used selectively and effectively.
• Operate and continuously improve the contracts register as the single source of truth for all grants, MSAs, and key agreements.

Enterprise Risk & Compliance:

• Help establish and maintain MPP’s core enterprise risk management approach, update the risk register and strategic risk analysis.
• Support the identification, documentation, assessment, and follow-up of key organisational risks, translating the risk register into practical mitigation actions.
• Coordinate risk updates, escalate significant issues, and prepare risk materials for leadership and governance discussions.
• Monitor a focused set of core compliance areas (including FARA, EU Transparency Register, antitrust behavioural compliance) and ensure issues are flagged and followed through.
• Support the development of practical compliance approaches on selected priority topics, calibrated to MPP’s size and risk profile.

Policy & Control Framework:

• Draft, improve, and maintain priority internal policies, standards, and operating procedures linked to legal, risk, and governance, picking up and operationalising frameworks initiated during the transition.
• Translate high-level principles into workable day-to-day processes that staff can follow.
• Contribute to strengthening internal controls through clearer responsibilities, documentation, and escalation routes.
• Help reduce dependence on informal practices and individual knowledge by embedding process discipline progressively.

Governance & Business Partnering

• Work closely with Finance, Operations, HR, and programme teams to ensure legal and risk thinking is embedded into business decisions.
• Support the CFOO and leadership team on governance matters: decision rights, accountability clarity, escalation pathways, and board-level governance materials.

Experience

• 6–7 years of relevant experience in legal, risk, compliance, or a combination of these areas.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating commercial and grant-related contracts, ideally across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience in building or strengthening policies, frameworks, or governance processes
• Comfortable with compliance disciplines (regulatory monitoring, internal controls, antitrust) even if not a deep specialist in each.
• Experience in an international, matrixed, or fast-evolving environment is highly desirable.
• Non-profit, foundation, multilateral, or mission-driven environment would be a strong advantage.
• Qualified lawyer is preferred but not required, strong legal-adjacent experience with demonstrated contract and governance capability is equally valued.

Skills

• Strong drafting and contract review skills.
• Sound judgement: able to distinguish material risks from lower-value points and advise accordingly.
• Ability to turn complexity into simple, usable guidance and processes.
• Comfortable operating across multiple disciplines, contracts one day, risk framework the next.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple issues
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and limited pre-existing structure.
• Overall pragmatic and solutions oriented. Structured and reliable.
• Calm under pressure and comfortable working independently.
• Able to influence without relying on hierarchy.
• Thrives in dynamic, entrepreneurial, intellectually rigorous environments; flexible; collaborative.

About Mission Possible Partnership

Mission Possible Partnership (MPP) is an independent non-profit organisation advancing global clean industry transformation. Since 2019, we have been working with some of the most energy-intensive industries: aluminium, aviation, cement, chemicals, shipping and steel, to cut their global GHG emissions.

We mobilise business, finance, government and civil society leaders to speed up the shift to clean materials, chemicals and fuels. Having charted sectoral pathways to net-zero, we continue to forge new territory, lifting the barriers to enable a critical mass of clean industrial projects to break ground by 2030.

Mission Possible Partnership has people and partners on the ground in North America, Brazil, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Australia.

To apply

If you are interested in joining our team, please send your resume and cover letter to our HR team at recruitment@missionpossiblepartnership.org.

Compensation  

MPP compensates based on the level and requirements of the role. Salary within our ranges may also be determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as required by the role, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.