Legal Specialist, Open Gateway
Department: Corporate Services
Team: Legal
Location: London
Position type: Contractor (12 months – inside IR35)
What the hiring manager says:
The GSMA is an exciting and dynamic environment for a contractor. The interdisciplinary work within the GSMA’s Open Gateway initiative offers a broad range of activities and engagements across the wider mobile ecosystem in numerous jurisdictions worldwide.
Michael Loch, Associate General Counsel
About GSMA Open Gateway:
GSMA Open Gateway represents a paradigm shift in how the telecoms industry designs and delivers services in a global API economy. It’s a framework of common network APIs designed to provide universal access to operator networks for developers. GSMA Open Gateway APIs adhere to an Open Source technical and licensing framework. This initiative helps developers and cloud providers enhance and deploy services rapidly across operator networks through single points of access to the world’s largest connectivity platform.
About the Team:
GSMA Legal provides advice across all areas of GSMA Open Gateway, ensuring compliance with all relevant statutory and contractual frameworks. The team advises on the feasibility of GSMA Open Gateway technical issues, and legal matters. They assist the GSMA Open Gateway team in generating new APIs and in the development and roll-out of GSMA Open Gateway APIs globally. The Legal Team members are based in Brussels, Atlanta, London, and Barcelona.
About the Role:
The successful applicant will work with the GSMA Open Gateway Team, under the guidance of the Associate General Counsel. The Contractor will support and assist by providing:
- Legal supervision and advice on Open Source and other API-related matters.
- Support for all Open Gateway-related work, including licensing, data privacy, and consent issues.
- Participation in GSMA Open Gateway meetings to ensure compliance with GSMA policies, rules, and procedures.
The Contractor will conduct research, market analysis, and/or product analysis in support of these tasks. They will also support GSMA’s efforts to ensure the GSMA Open Gateway programme complies with all GSMA regulations and procedures.
About You:
The successful candidate will have a legal background with an interest in telecommunications. While a legal qualification is not required, candidates should have studied law or have professional legal experience.
Applicants with a legal background but without technical experience are encouraged to apply, provided they are eager and committed to branching out into technical matters. This includes individuals who have left the legal field and are keen to re-enter.
Candidates with prior experience in telecommunications or technology trade associations or companies are preferred.
Key abilities include:
- Being a team player, capable of collaborating with various teams within the GSMA.
- Comfort with facing new challenges and working under time constraints.
- Experience in law coupled with an interest in technology.
- Ability to work independently, be inquisitive, and methodical.
- A strong ability to follow through and complete tasks to a high standard.
Contract type: Short term Contractor
Worker type: Contingent Worker
What We Offer:
Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page, and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA:
We care deeply about diversity, equity, and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented, and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The success of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values:
Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven: We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity, and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace, and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders: We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight, and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility, and nuance.
Stronger together: We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fueling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate, and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff, and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.
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