ISA is looking for a dynamic legal professional who can combine strong corporate and transactional expertise with a sound understanding of private-sector finance, funds, investment structures and financial transactions. The role will help turn ambitious ideas into well-structured, legally robust and commercially viable opportunities. Are you ready to shape the legal frameworks that will drive the next generation of renewable energy financing and investment? Join ISA and bring your expertise and energy to a truly transformative mission
1. Your New Organization
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is a treaty-based intergovernmental organization headquartered in India, dedicated to accelerating the deployment of solar energy worldwide. ISA's work spans mobilizing investment, facilitating innovative and blended financing mechanisms, and supporting the regulatory and institutional frameworks that enable renewable energy markets to grow.
As ISA broadens its engagement with the private sector across corporate transactions, infrastructure financing, and structured and blended finance instruments, it is strengthening its Legal Unit with dedicated private-sector transactional expertise. This position sits within that effort and involves managing institutional, administrative, and governance requirements across multilateral operations, advising on funds and finance law as well as investment engagements in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
The Legal Specialist will also contribute to legal risk management, contract development and negotiation, corporate and institutional matters, regulatory analysis and dispute resolution, as required.
2. Your Role and Scope of work
The Legal Officer is expected to provide broad based legal advisory and transactional support across ISA's engagements, particularly in corporate and infrastructure investment transactions, structured and blended finance initiatives, comprising of funds, Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs), and other pooled or collective investment vehicles, as well as procurement, grants, and general contract review. These include:
A. Private Sector and Transactional Legal Advisory
• Provide legal advice on private-sector solar and renewable energy investments and corporate transactions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documentation, including investment agreements, shareholders' agreements, subscription agreements, project finance documentation, and related instruments.
• Conduct legal due diligence and risk assessments on private-sector partners, investors, and financial intermediaries.
B. Funds and Structured Finance Advisory
• Advise on the structuring, establishment, governance, and regulatory compliance of investment funds, blended finance facilities, and pooled investment vehicles, including Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) and comparable structures.
• Review and prepare fund and trust documentation, including trust deeds, sponsor and trustee arrangements, fund constitutional documents, and investor protection provisions.
• Provide legal analysis on regulatory frameworks governing infrastructure funds, capital markets instruments, and cross-border investment structures.
C. Procurement and Transactional Support
• Provide legal advice and drafting support across ISA's procurement processes.
• Review, draft, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts and grant agreements, including consultancy agreements, service contracts, and cooperation or partnership agreements with public and private counterparts.
• Support internal stakeholders in structuring transactions to manage legal and commercial risk while maintaining efficient turnaround on routine and moderately complex procurement matters.
• Advise on financial regulatory compliance, cross-border investment structuring, and risk mitigation mechanisms.
• Contribute to the development of legal templates, model agreements, guidelines, and internal frameworks to facilitate transactional security and integrity.
D. Institutional, Governance and Secretariat Support
• Support institutional, administrative, and governance requirements arising from ISA's multilateral operations.
• Assist with corporate secretarial functions, including maintenance of institutional records, statutory filings, and materials for governance meetings, as required.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
E. Dispute Resolution and Legal Risk Management
- Advise on potential and actual disputes arising from contracts, investments, partnerships and other engagements.
- Assess claims, liabilities and potential exposure and recommend appropriate legal and commercial responses.
- Support the management of litigation, arbitration, mediation and other dispute-resolution proceedings, including coordination with external counsel.
- Review legal submissions, pleadings, opinions and other documents prepared by external counsel.
- Maintain appropriate records of material disputes and legal matters and contribute to assessment of contingent liabilities.
- Identify emerging legal risks and recommend appropriate mitigation and internal controls.
3. What You Will Need to Succeed
Education
- A University degree in Law (LL.B. or equivalent) from a recognized university is required.
- Admission to practice law in India is required; and must be in good standing with the Bar.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible, post-qualification experience in corporate and commercial transactional law.
- Proven experience in one or more of: infrastructure finance, project finance, or private equity.
- Demonstrated experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex commercial and/or investment documentation.
- Experience gained at a leading law firm, financial institution, investment fund, or multilateral development institution.
Desirable Experience
- Familiarity with the legal frameworks of multilateral or international organizations.
- Demonstrated experience advising on investment funds or pooled investment vehicles is desirable (e.g., private equity funds, infrastructure funds, InvITs, or comparable structured/blended finance instruments).
- Experience advising institutional investors, fund managers, financial institutions or private-sector counterparties will be an advantage.
4 . Core Competencies
- Professionalism: Demonstrated ability to advise on complex private-sector, financial, and investment structures; strong analytical and legal-drafting skills; sound judgment in identifying and managing legal risk
- Planning and Organizing: Ability to manage multiple transactional workstreams concurrently and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication: Excellent legal drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly to non-legal stakeholders.
- Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively across multicultural, multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams.
5. Your Place of Work
This position will be based at the ISA Headquarters, Delhi/Gurgaon, India, with international travel as required.
6. Your Pay and Benefits
ISA offers a competitive remuneration package based on the UN Common System, commensurate with experience and qualifications. Benefits include health insurance, pension contributions, and leave entitlements as per ISA Staff Regulations and Rules.
ISA values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates from its Member Countries.
At ISA, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce and provide an equal employment opportunity for all our employees and applicants. We will consider all qualified applicants without regarding an individual’s race, color, gender/gender expression/orientation, and religion.
ISA seeks to obtain and retain a staff reflecting its geographical representation and diversity and as such, primarily prefers and recruits staff from its member countries.
ISA maintains a retirement age of 65 years.
For more details about our policies and practices you can refer to our website International Solar Alliance (isa.int)
Please apply in confidence by email to: recruitment@isa.int
Your application should include a cover letter of no more than 2 pages and your detailed CV.
*Please note that only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted for an interview and will receive notice of the outcome of the selection process. ISA retains the right to cancel the selection process if it is determined in the best interest of the Organization.
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