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Legal Counsel , CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

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LEGAL COUNSEL
LEGAL DEPARTMENT

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB or the Bank) is seeking to recruit a national from its member countries to fill the position of Legal Counsel to work in its Legal Department.

CDB is a regional multilateral development bank which is committed to the harmonious economic growth and development of its member countries in the Caribbean and to promoting economic cooperation and integration among them, having special and urgent regard to the needs of its less-developed members. CDB is the premier vehicle for development financing in the Region.

The Role

The Legal Counsel position is one of five professional positions which will report to the Deputy General Counsel (DGC). He/she will be accountable for providing a full slate of corporate legal services to CDB to assist in ensuring that CDB’s internal operations and external business activities are conducted without detriment to the organisation and with due observance of its Charter.

The Legal Counsel will be responsible for providing legal services to CDB with respect to, inter alia:

  1. Appraisal of capital and technical assistance projects, preparation, negotiation and finalisation of loan, guarantee, grant and consultancy agreements, satisfaction of conditions precedent to first disbursement of funds (including, where applicable, the provision of security documentation), the supervision of the operational phase of projects, matters arising out of such agreements, purchases by CDB, services provided to CDB and matters arising out of such activities.
  2. Administrative, information technology, human resource and finance related matters.

The Candidate

  1. The eligible candidate should be a qualified Attorney-at-Law, Barrister or Solicitor as evidenced by relevant qualification. He/she must be practising/able to practise in one or more of CDB’s member countries.
  2. Eligible candidates should have at least seven years’ working experience in the practice of law in the private and/or public sector in one or more of CDB’s member countries. Working experience in the practice of law in one or more of CDB’s BMCs would be an advantage.
  3. The successful candidate must be willing to live and work in Barbados.

Compensation

An attractive compensation package commensurate with these responsibilities and which responds to market demands is being offered.

Applications

Applications should be completed online in English at the Bank’s career page. Full details of the job description and general information about the Caribbean Development Bank may be obtained from the Bank’s website at http://www.caribank.org.

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