Corporate Attorney | Associate Attorney (IT Oriented)

Our Mission:

Virufy, a nonprofit research consortium of researchers, innovators, and scientists, has united volunteers from 25+ countries to develop a smartphone app for the detection of COVID-19. Initially developed as a Stanford University COVID-19 Response Innovation Lab project, Virufy’s artificial intelligence (AI) COVID-19 diagnostic solution fights the pandemic through widespread, accessible, and free testing.

Opportunity Overview:

Seeking an individual to contribute on a part-time volunteer basis and collaborate closely with Virufy management and globally-dispersed legal teams to help manage data privacy concerns for their local jurisdictions.

Responsibilities:

• Review and adapt to local regulation legal documents drafted by senior legal counsel such as NDAs, contracts, partnership agreements, etc.
• Advise management and infosec teams on relevant data security policies for local regulations.
• Research data privacy and protection questions raised from leadership as relevant to your locality, such as for CCPA, GDPR, and LGPD.
• Support responses to inquiries from government authorities and individual requests such as data deletion and data portability.
• Ensure, assess and monitor compliance with local and international regulatory standards on habeas data and data treatment, as well as exposure to related infringement risks.
• Translate and localize legal documents as necessary.

Requirements (preferred):

• Master’s Level legal student (LL.M), or recent grad (having completed JD and passed the relevant Bar).
• Organized, collaborative, detail-oriented, and tech-savvy with exceptional communication skills and responsive to emails/messaging.
• Strong sense of responsibility and ability to carry out tasks independently.

Desired skills:

• Previous experience in non-profit organizations (including research or internship).
• Understanding the deep meanings of legal terms such as “reasonable efforts.”
• Fluency in Spanish and\or Brazilian Portuguese is a plus.

Hours:

10+ hours per week while actively localizing policies

To Apply:

Please apply using our Google Form at https://virufy.org/en/apply