Location
Miami, FL | United States
Job description
Job Description
We govern the beautiful game and ensure it's run with transparency and integrity.
Join our team in Miami and support us on our mission.
THE POSITION
These are your key tasks:
- Office management of the Litigation sub-division assisting the Director of Litigation and the rest of the litigation team in their daily administrative and business activities (CAS proceedings and other internal FIFA activities organized by Litigation).
- Handling of administrative matters (e.g. email and post distribution, general correspondence, classifying awards, gathering statistics, IT issues, team events, etc).
- Responsible for the physical and electronic archiving system of the Litigation Inbox and the Case Management tools – Jira/Sharepoint/O-Drive – (e.g. saving all CAS communications in the case management system, inserting information in the corresponding data base, sending communications to CAS, etc.).
- Drafting communications based on pre-existing templates.
- Support in administrative and procedural aspects of the arbitral proceedings (e.g. notification of correspondences and submissions, preparing enclosures, research of basic case law, etc.).
- Support in managing expenses, invoices, accounts and budgets to the members of the Litigation Sub-division.
- Completing contract templates for freelancers or law firms.
- Coordinating with the relevant FIFA Departments (Legal & Compliance, Judicial Bodies, Finance, IT, etc.) for issues related to the tasks of the Litigation Sub-Division.
- Coordination and organization of meetings in the context of the responsibilities of the Litigation sub-division.
YOUR PROFILE
We work hard at FIFA.
We are dedicated, ambitious and innovative.
And we respect our values. Always.
For all roles, we seek talented people with an entrepreneurial spirit and a global mindset.
The specific competencies we require for this position are:
- University degree
- Min. 3 years of experience with good administrative background
- Good knowledge of MS Office
- Good planning and organizational skills
- Knowledge of basic principles of law
- Knowledge of sports law and, specifically, football law
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Ability to set priorities effectively
- Ability to work under pressure
- Self-reliant work ethic and ability to set priorities
- Resilient
- Good communication skills, organized
- Sociability, flexibility and spontaneity
- Team player
- Pleasant and empathetic
- Cooperative
- Proactive and solution driven
- Innovative
- Readiness to help external and internal clients
- Readiness for stand-by duties
- Fluent in English
- Proficiency in Spanish and/or French
PERKS & BENEFITS
The biggest benefit of a career at FIFA is the privilege to work for the beautiful game and create something that matters.
Alongside that privilege, we also offer some extra perks and benefits:
Health insurance: We offer generous medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
Continuous learning: We care about your development and encourage internal mobility, offering a variety of training and education to help achieve it.
Retirement: We offer generous 401(k) employer contributions.
Vacation: Maintain a healthy work/life balance with a generous vacation allowance.
About FIFA
We are FIFA, the global governing body for football.
Our vision is to make football truly global, diverse and inclusive, for the benefit of the entire world. The last FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 attracted more than 5 billion viewers and the last FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 was the greatest-ever FIFA Women's World Cup that inspired millions of girls and women around the globe. The opportunities for growth are exciting.
We are a modern organisation with over 850 passionate employees who are Living Football every day. Our headquarters are based in Zurich, Switzerland, and we have offices in Miami and Paris, plus eleven regional offices from New Zealand to India, Congo, Panama and Paraguay.
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