Program Legal Associate, East Africa
Acumen(1 day ago)
About this role
Acumen is seeking a mission-driven corporate commercial lawyer to join its Legal team in Nairobi on a fixed-term contract supporting a five-year programme focused on early-stage social enterprises in the African green economy. The role is open to candidates with a minimum of two years' transactional law experience and fluency in English. The Legal Associate will report to the Program Legal Counsel and East Africa Legal Counsel and must be permanently authorized to work in Kenya.
Required Skills
- Transactional Law
- Contract Drafting
- Compliance
- Due Diligence
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Legal Research
- Regulatory Compliance
- Deal Documentation
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Qualifications
- License to Practice Law (Kenya)
- Work Authorization (Kenya)
About Acumen
acumen.orgNew Relic is a SaaS observability platform that helps engineering and operations teams monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize applications and infrastructure. It ingests telemetry — metrics, traces, logs, events and real-user data — from agents and integrations and exposes APM, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, logs, synthetics, and alerting in a single UI. The New Relic One experience includes a query language (NRQL), customizable dashboards, real-time analytics and collaboration tools so teams can quickly pinpoint issues and measure performance. Organizations choose New Relic for broad language/cloud integrations, end-to-end visibility, and query-driven insights that accelerate incident response and performance tuning.