You believe you have the educational background and professional experience to elevate the organization to the highest international standards? CAF is looking to recruit a Legal Counsel.

Responsibilities:

Support the Legal Affairs & Compliance Division in the day-to-day management of legal matters within CAF, with a particular focus on commercial legal support, contracts, intellectual property and legal advisory support to operational divisions, while escalating sensitive, strategic or high-risk matters to the Head of Legal Affairs and the Director of Legal Affairs & Compliance.

• Support the Head of Legal Affairs in the provision of day-to-day legal services to CAF divisions, ensuring timely, accurate and practical legal support.
• Draft, review and revise commercial contracts and legal documents, including service agreements, consultancy agreements, NDAs, sponsorship-related agreements, marketing arrangements, media-related documents, and other routine legal instruments.
• Support legal work related to CAF’s commercial and business operations, including sponsorship, commercial partnerships, rights exploitation and related contractual matters.
• Assist with intellectual property matters, including protection, use and review of rights relating to CAF competitions, brands, content and commercial assets.
• Conduct legal research and prepare legal notes, summaries, opinions and first drafts on commercial, intellectual property, regulatory, governance and institutional matters.
• Support the preparation, review and updating of CAF regulations, internal legal guidelines, templates and related documents under supervision.
• Assist in the coordination and follow-up of disputes, litigation and arbitration matters, including document collection, deadline tracking, liaison with external counsel and preparation of case summaries, where required.
• Support internal legal review of projects and transactions involving CAF divisions, especially Commercial, Competitions, Finance, Communications and other business-facing functions, escalating issues requiring management decisions or strategic guidance.
• Maintain proper filing, archiving and traceability of legal documents and legal matters in both electronic and physical format.
• Contribute to the monitoring of legal deadlines, contractual obligations and pending action points across assigned files.
• Carry out any other legal tasks assigned by the Head of Legal Affairs or the Director of Legal Affairs & Compliance.

Requirements (profile):

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or equivalent legal qualification.
• Admission to practice or professional legal qualification is an asset.
• 3–6 years of relevant professional experience as a lawyer, legal associate or in-house legal counsel.
• Experience in a law firm, international organization, intellectual property institution, regulatory environment or commercial legal practice is an asset.
• Demonstrated exposure to contract drafting, commercial advisory work, intellectual property matters, legal research and legal drafting.
• Exposure to sponsorship, media, rights management, brand protection or related commercial legal work is an advantage.
• Business know-how and IT skills
• Solid grounding in legal drafting, contract review and legal research.
• Good understanding of commercial legal work, intellectual property and institutional legal frameworks.
• Familiarity with sponsorship, media, regulatory or governance matters is an asset.
• Good command of MS Office tools and ability to work with document management systems.
• Team spirit: works closely with the Head of Legal Affairs, the Director of Legal Affairs & Compliance and colleagues across the organization; contributes to common objectives.
• Provides responsive, practical and solution-oriented legal support to internal clients.
• Professionalism: reliable, discreet, well-organized and capable of handling confidential matters with sound judgment.
• Competencies and characteristics
• Strong drafting and analytical skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to manage several files in parallel and work under pressure.
• Strong sense of confidentiality and institutional judgment.
• Structured, disciplined and execution oriented.
• Comfortable working in a multicultural and fast-moving environment.
• Commercially minded and able to support business-facing legal matters in a practical way.
• Language skills
• English (fluent, written and spoken) – required.
• French – asset.
• Interest in football governance, commercial operations and international legal practice is an asset.

We offer:

• An interesting and varied job in an exciting and innovative international organization.
• Attractive employment conditions.
• The opportunity to be part of a highly committed international team.
• An excellent pension scheme.

The position will be based in CAF Headquarters – Cairo, Egypt. Only qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to gender, race, age, skin colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or on any other grounds.

If you have the necessary qualifications and are keen to work for a top international sporting organization, submit your application in English (Motivation Letter, CV, Diplomas, and Reference Letters).

 

Only direct applications who meet all the required criteria will receive consideration, please send your C.V. to careers@cafonline.com

 

Application deadline 20/07/2026