Ateneo de Manila University
Ateneo de Manila University

University Counsel for Basic Education  

Ateneo de Manila University

 
  • Quezon City, Philippines
    Katipunan Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
    Quezon City
    Metro Manila
    Philippines
    Philippines
    TELECOMMUTE
  • Full timeFULL_TIME

Expired 3 years ago

2021-03-14T16:00:00+00:00
Job closed.

Job Description

Summary of Work Activities and Responsibilities:

The University Counsel for Basic Education (BEd) shall be responsible for providing legal support specifically to the BEd administration (but concomitantly to University management as well) in order to mitigate legal risks and ensure legal compliance. The holder of the position shall report directly to the Director of the University Legal Counsel Office (ULCO).

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Governance

  • Enable the key administrators of the BEd unit to make strategic decisions by providing legal know-how to mitigate potential legal problems and ensure compliance with relevant laws
  • Draft and recommend policies, programs and protocols to manage the legal risks of BEd
  • Prepare a wide variety of written materials for the purpose of documenting activities, providing written references, conveying information, and/or supporting presentations concerning policy and procedure changes
  • Collaborate with external stakeholders in providing input to national or local legislation that impacts BEd’s/University's operations
  • Provide guidance to the University in effecting policy changes in the BEd unit/schools that may impact other units of the University
  • Advocate and collaborate with internal stakeholders in introducing and adopting policy changes to address legal issues

Legal advise on operational and transactional matters

  • Evaluate complex and volatile situations with legal implications, and recommend the best option available for BEd/University administration
  • Research and evaluate different risk factors pertaining to legal exposures in transactional and operational matters
  • Provide accurate and timely legal advise to key administrators of BEd on a variety of legal concerns, including labor law, administrative proceedings, torts and damages, education law, and data privacy
  • Provide the BEd administration with information or updates on laws and issuances that require compliance by the Bed unit/schools

Documents drafting and review

  • Prepare legal communications on behalf of BEd administration
  • Draft and/or review agreements, contracts, and other legal documents entered into by the BEd unit/schools to ensure the University’s legal compliance and protect the University’s rights and interests
  • Review external and internal communications of BEd to ensure that information is conveyed in a legally-compliant manner

Legal representation

  • Represent the BEd unit/schools in internal and external activities requiring legal representation (e.g., consultations, workshops, conferences, etc.).
  • Represent the BEd administration in negotiations with internal and external constituents
  • Where circumstances warrant, represent the BEd unit/schools (therefore the University) in the direct handling of certain legal proceedings

Dispute management

  • Manage a range of legal disputes involving a variety of internal and external stakeholders
  • Review complaints involving acts of misconduct or disciplinary offenses by BEd employees and students, and provide legal guidance on handling the investigative processes
  • Identify disputes that are appropriate for mediation and recommend referral to the alternative dispute settlement
  • Identify critical disputes that have a high potential for litigation and determine the necessity for referral to external counsel in preparation for possible lawsuits

Legal empowerment

  • Initiate programs and activities to promote a corporate culture that maintains the highest possible standards of legal compliance
  • Identify and train key personnel to perform paralegal services
  • Design and implement training and information sessions to raise awareness and compliance with laws, other governmental issuances, and school policies, rules, and regulations
  • Develop information, education, and communication tools to communicate the legal responsibilities of a variety of constituents

Administrative functions

  • Manage external legal services
    • Establish and implement protocols for identifying and vetting external counsels and referring legal matters involving the BEd unit/schools to external counsels, including matters that require legal advise or intervention from experts in specialized areas of law
    • Design and implement a monitoring and evaluation system to ensure quality and cost-efficient services of external counsels with regard to legal matters involving the BEd unit/schools
    • Review and monitor the BEd budget for engaging services of external legal counsels
    • Coordinate, whenever necessary, with BEd administrators and with BEd schools and Central Administration offices on legal matters
  • Attend various meetings for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform job functions
  • Develop and implement a case/legal intervention management system to document the legal requirements of the BEd unit/schools and ensure responsiveness to BEd’s needs for legal services

Communication

  • Represent the VP for BEd and other BEd key administrators in communicating sensitive, controversial and complex messages of a legal nature to internal stakeholders, and coordinate the exchange of information on such matters within the unit
  • Provide input to the University Marketing and Communication Office on the legal aspects of communications with external stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications

  • Member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in good standing
  • At least ten years in the practice of law, preferably with experience as legal counsel in a school environment
  • At least two years of litigation experience
  • Experience in contract law, labor and employment law, torts and damages, and education law is desirable

Perks and Benefits

  • Work from HomeWork from Home

Jobs Summary

Job Level
Mid-Senior Level / Manager
Job Category
Administration and Coordination
Educational Requirement
Master's degree graduate
Recruiter response to application
Once in a while
Office Address
Katipunan Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Industry
Higher Education / Academia
Vacancy
1 opening
Website
http://www.ateneo.edu/

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About Ateneo de Manila University

The Ateneo de Manila University (Ateneo) is one of the leading universities in the Philippines. More than 150 years in existence, the Ateneo has grown into a major Jesuit institution. Officially it became a university in 1959. It offers over 100 academic degree programmes. Ateneo offers Basic Education (Grade School, Junior and Senior High School). In addition, the Loyola Schools (college) is made up of four schools (Social Sciences; Humanities; Science and Engineering; and Management) that offer graduate and undergraduate degrees, with a total enrolment of about 10,000 students per year. The Ateneo has 4 professional schools located in 3 campuses in Quezon City, Makati City and Pasig City (Business; Government; Law; and Medicine and Public Health), with about 4,000 professional postgraduate students. It has an array of research centres, 11 of which are recognized as Centres of Excellence by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education. In addition to a European Studies Programme, it has a Centre for Asian Studies that fosters comparative research on East and Southeast Asia. The Ateneo has 207 partnerships with universities around the world (82 in Europe, 87 in Asia, 11 in Australia and New Zealand, and 27 in North and South America) and is a member of the ASEAN Universities Network and 3 other international university networks. The Ateneo’s Rizal Library is the most advanced in the Philippines with over 307,000 titles in its collection and online access to most major academic journals.

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