Strategic Litigation, Advisory & Contracts Lead

Pakistan Single Window; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Pakistan Single Window (PSW) recruits on behalf of the National Agri-Trade and Food Safety Authority (NAFSA) to join the foundational legal team. The selected candidate will manage litigation, draft contracts, and provide regulatory advisory support to ensure legally sound, defensible decisions.

Role requires extensive experience in litigation, strong drafting and negotiation skills, and the ability to coordinate across multiple directorates to uphold procurement and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• LLB or law degree with 16 years of education.
• Minimum 8 years in litigation, legal advisory, contracts, or public sector regulatory law.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and legal research skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day management of NAFSA's litigation portfolio, including case intake, classification, strategy coordination, and end-to-end case tracking across courts/tribunals.
• Coordinate with panel counsel/law firms on pleadings, court filings, responses, and hearing preparations; ensure timely submissions, follow-ups, and compliance with court directions and timelines.
• Maintain litigation calendars, cause lists, hearing trackers, and status dashboards; elevate high-risk matters and adverse developments to the Director Legal with recommended actions.
• Prepare case briefs, factual chronologies, document bundles, and management notes for senior leadership; support evidence compilation and document verification in coordination with Wings/Directorates.
• Provide legal advisory support to leadership and directorates on regulatory, administrative, operational enforcement, and contractual matters to ensure decisions are legally sound, proportionate, and defensible.
• Review, draft, and negotiate contracts, MoUs, SLAs, service agreements, and procurement-related legal documents to ensure compliance with applicable laws and procurement rules and to mitigate risks.
• Support development, vetting, and review of legal instruments in coordination with SAPW/OW and relevant stakeholders, ensuring consistency with the NAFSA Act and notified frameworks.
• Handle legal notices, show-cause communications, complaints/disputes, and regulatory queries by drafting responses, coordinating approvals, and maintaining complete documentation and audit trails.
• Maintain secure legal repositories including litigation case files, legal opinions, precedents, templates, contract repositories, and correspondence, ensuring confidentiality and retrievability.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments relevant to NAFSA's mandate and advise on implications and required updates.
• Support internal compliance and legal risk management activities by contributing to the legal risk register, tracking mitigation actions, and reporting emerging risks.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Director Legal consistent with NAFSA's mandate.

Skills

Litigation management

Contract drafting

Regulatory law

Legal research

Negotiation

Education

LLB/Law degree (16 years)

LLM preferred

Job description

Pakistan Single Window (PSW) recruits on behalf of the National Agri-Trade and Food Safety Authority (NAFSA) to join the foundational legal team. The selected candidate will manage litigation, draft contracts, and provide regulatory advisory support to ensure legally sound, defensible decisions.

Role requires extensive experience in litigation, strong drafting and negotiation skills, and the ability to coordinate across multiple directorates to uphold procurement and compliance standards.