Senior Programme Officer, TrustLaw, EMENA

About the role

We are recruiting a dynamic Senior Programme Officer to help expand, strengthen, and innovate our TrustLaw programme in Europe, and support the delivery of strategic projects in the region. Reporting to the Senior Legal Programme Manager, EMENA, this role will play a key part in supporting TrustLaw’s community of civil society organisations, social enterprises, independent media organisations, and supporting the team on thought‑leadership initiatives.

• Supporting the delivery of projects designed to strengthen the resilience of civil society and independent media in the region.
• Building and stewarding relationships with civil society organisations, social enterprises and independent media organisations in the region.
• Designing and implementing strategies to expand and diversify our community of NGO and social enterprise members in the region.
• Supporting the engagement of pro‑bono legal service providers in the region to strengthen TrustLaw’s networks.
• Administering the TrustLaw service, including recruiting and vetting new members, collecting feedback, fielding questions, updating databases, and running reports.
• Managing pro‑bono requests, including connecting the pro‑bono client with lawyers, collecting feedback and following up with the parties involved.
• Contributing to the TrustLaw global annual strategy, and supporting the implementation of a regional strategy to expand and activate TrustLaw membership, ensuring we serve the best NGOs, social enterprises and independent media organisations, as well as the strongest law firms and corporate in‑house legal teams.
• Executing a robust communications, engagement and outreach strategy that includes member events, promotion of TrustLaw publications and newsletters.
• Maintaining a high profile for TrustLaw in Europe by attending, supporting and coordinating events for TrustLaw and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, including speaking publicly at panels, roundtables, workshops, trainings, conferences or other speaking engagements.
• Assisting with other duties as required and providing surge capacity support.

This is a full‑time, remote role based in Spain.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in the NGO, social enterprise or social impact sector.
• A good understanding of the NGO/social enterprise and social impact sectors in Europe.
• Experience delivering donor‑funded projects, and project management or coordination.
• Experience with the legal services sector and pro‑bono is highly favourable.
• Prior experience working on issues of media freedom, responsible business, digital rights or human rights is a plus.
• Experience delivering services in the NGO sector is highly favourable.
• Excellent time‑management, organisational and research, drafting and analytical skills with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to establish and maintain positive working relationships internally and externally with people from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds.
• Being ambitious, dynamic and creative.
• Experience in Salesforce or with basic database management is favourable.
• Experience organising events or trainings is favourable.
• Fluency in English is required; other languages such as Spanish, French or German are favourable.
• Willingness to travel internationally.
• Pre‑existing right to work in Spain.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience for senior management positions.
• Prior knowledge of designing and running donor‑funded projects.
• Legal experience as a professional lawyer in custom, tenancy or general law services.
• Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail and good judgment.

Benefits

• Flexibility and Work‑Life Balance: Flex My Way policies, work from anywhere up to 8 weeks per year and supportive workplace policies.
• Career Development and Growth: Continuous learning programs, Grow My Way programmes and skills‑first approach.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Flexible vacation, two company‑wide mental health days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programmes and resources for mental, physical and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Inclusive, flexible, work‑life balanced environment with a strong values framework.
• Social Impact: Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro‑bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
• Making a Real‑World Impact: Contribution to rule of law, truth, transparency and trusted information.

Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

We seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, colour, sex/gender, pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation is available.