Director of Legal Research
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Digital Technology Institute for Development (DTID)Legal research
Location: Singapore. Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. United States. Japan. United Kingdom. South KoreaFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Languages
- Excellent written and spoken English. Professional proficiency in English is required.
- Required Skills
- Microsoft Office
Requirements
- Demonstrate significant experience developing and managing academic legal research projects.
- Have a strong, demonstrable record of peer-reviewed publications, books, book chapters, research reports, or other substantial legal research outputs.
- Demonstrate experience designing, planning, and delivering independent legal research.
- Have experience leading multidisciplinary or cross-disciplinary research initiatives.
- Have experience supervising, mentoring, or managing researchers.
- Demonstrate experience developing and maintaining academic or institutional research collaborations.
- Have experience translating academic research into policy-relevant outputs and engaging policymakers, legislators, international organisations, or senior institutional stakeholders.
- Demonstrate substantial expertise in at least one relevant field, such as technology law, artificial intelligence law and governance, climate law, environmental law, carbon markets, or digital regulation.
- Demonstrate strong academic legal research, analytical, scholarly writing, editing, and publication skills.
- Have strong strategic leadership, professional judgement, research integrity, and programme-management skills.
- Be able to communicate complex legal and academic concepts to policymakers and non-specialist audiences.
- Have proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant legal research, reference-management, and academic research tools.
- Have professional proficiency in English.
- A PhD in Law or a closely related discipline with a strong legal research component is preferred; equivalent advanced academic qualifications and an exceptional substantive research and publication record may also be considered.
Responsibilities
- Lead DTID’s legal research agenda across technology law, climate law, environmental governance, and related areas.
- Supervise Legal Research Officers and provide academic, technical, and strategic guidance on research projects.
- Develop and oversee legal research, publications, policy papers, briefing notes, and other research outputs.
- Identify priority research questions at the intersection of emerging digital technologies, climate policy, and sustainable development.
- Develop strategic research and knowledge partnerships with universities, research institutions, governments, international organisations, and other stakeholders.
- Review and approve legal research outputs for academic quality, accuracy, and policy relevance.
- Translate complex legal research into practical insights for policymakers, legislators, climate negotiators, and non-specialist audiences.
- Contribute research expertise to conferences, webinars, policy forums, executive briefings, and external engagements.
- Support funded research proposals and strategic research initiatives.
- Monitor research progress, resource requirements, and delivery against agreed priorities.
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