Digital India BHASHINI Division/Digital India Corporation is currently inviting applications for the Assistant Manager – Legal position on a contractual basis.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, vet and negotiate MoUs, MSAs, SOAs, SLAs, SOWs and other legal and contractual documents required for DIBD operations.
• Manage the contract lifecycle, including renewals, amendments, extensions, notices, terminations, expiry tracking and maintenance of related records.
• Maintain and periodically review approved legal templates, checklists, contract records and document control systems, including appropriate version control, indexing and archiving.
• Advise on data privacy and protection requirements, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, applicable Rules and related regulatory requirements.
• Draft, review and update Privacy Policies, Terms of Use, data-governance documents, grievance redressal frameworks and data-sharing/licensing arrangements, including arrangements relating to datasets and AI annotation/labelling.
• Advise on intellectual property rights, licensing, attribution, permitted use and restrictions relating to software, AI/ML models, datasets, open-source technologies and other digital assets.
• Support ISO, regulatory and compliance governance, including compliance registers, SOPs, audit documentation, compliance reviews and corrective and preventive actions.
• Undertake and support legal, contractual and regulatory risk assessments, including matters relating to information security, data protection, technology services and contractual obligations.
• Provide legal advisory support to Technical, Programme, Policy, HR and other functional teams on contractual, regulatory, employment, intellectual property, data-protection and operational matters.
• Advise on employment and labour law matters, including employment/service agreements, applicable statutory requirements, employee-related documentation, disciplinary and termination matters, and other HR-related legal matters.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments relating to AI, data governance, privacy, employment, intellectual property, technology contracts and Digital Public Infrastructure, and provide relevant legal inputs to stakeholders.
• Support pre-litigation and litigation matters, including coordination with external legal counsel, maintenance of legal records, and identification, documentation, escalation and mitigation of legal, contractual and compliance risks.

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About Bhashini

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under the Digital India Program has undertaken a unique initiative, BHASHINI, the National Language Translation Mission. Mission Bhashini was launched by the Hon’ble PM on 4th July 2022 during Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The vision of Bhashini is to “Harness natural language technologies to enable a diverse ecosystem of contributors, partnering entities, and citizens for the purpose of transcending language barriers, thereby ensuring digital inclusion and digital empowerment in an Aatma Nirbhar Bharat.”