Deputy Director, Legal
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 4, 2024
Job Description:
The FoundationWe are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty,
disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple
premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or
circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive
lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity
of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an
exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which
include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no
premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave,
foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and
opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a
workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to
thrive both personally and professionally.The Team"Guidance,
Solutions, Integrity" describes the Legal division's approach to
providing responsive legal guidance supporting pursuit of the
foundation's mission and implementation of our programmatic and
operational strategies! The Legal division delivers comprehensive
legal services by providing efficient and reliable legal guidance,
managing legal risk, and supporting the development of solutions to
achieve the mission of the foundation and its affiliated
entities.The Legal division partners with our colleagues across the
foundation to enable mission-driven work by maintaining an
efficient, well-run global organization where employees can thrive
and make their best contributions. Doing this well requires
effective collaboration, strong alignment, and thoughtful planning
across both operational and programmatic teams - as well as shared
accountability for mitigating risk and optimizing the foundation's
operational resources.Your Role This role will focus primarily on
management of legal support and legal team members assigned to
enterprise operations at the foundation, including its regional
offices, and its subsidiaries. This includes ethics and compliance,
dispute resolution, eDiscovery, records management, entity
registration for remote workers and offices, employee and guest
safety, information security, events, travel visas, incident
response, and facilities support globally. You will also be
assigned additional projects based on business needs. Additional
duties may include, for example, training, risk assessments, and
associated processes. You will work cross-functionally and
collaboratively with staff at all levels and be a knowledgeable,
approachable, and persuasive advocate in support of these programs
and requirements. You will supervise a team of experienced in-house
counsel, paralegals, and/or legal assistants, as well as with
outside counsel as needed.What You'll Do
- Identify, mitigate and/or resolve areas of legal risk.
- Provide guidance regarding applicable laws and foundation
policies and processes.
- Proactively engage with foundation divisions and teams to
incorporate strategies and goals into legal advice and compliance
strategies, as appropriate, that are calibrated appropriately for
the foundation's risk tolerance.
- Identify legal issues across a wide range of subject areas,
while specializing in the laws applicable to enterprise
operations.
- Manage a team of direct reports and serve in a consultative
role to the Legal Leadership Team (LLT).
- Manage and support the professional development of other legal
professionals.
- Understand and support the objectives of internal client
groups, developing creative solutions, and resolve issues using the
appropriate legal framework and in consideration of the
foundation's values and risk philosophy.
- Demonstrate generalist expertise to identify legal issues and
collaborate, where appropriate, with other legal team members or
foundation collaborators to lead the resolution of complex and
strategic legal issues in compliance with applicable laws and
regulations, and foundation policy and process.
- As appropriate, demonstrate subject matter expertise and
leadership on projects and activities where such expertise is
required.
- Quickly establish a relationship of trust with key partners and
participate as a strategic advisor with regular touchpoints for
communication.
- Serve as the legal team's liaison to and primary point of
contact for our work for clients and partners.
- Facilitate compliance with, and ensuring current knowledge
regarding, applicable domestic and foreign legal and regulatory
requirements in countries where the foundation maintains a legal
presence or is otherwise active.
- Collaborate with the LLT and broader legal team to ensure
effective coverage, work allocation and communication regarding
legal issues related to the foundation, all from a "one team"
perspective; collaborate to ensure legal advice is consistent
across divisions and teams.
- Manage outside counsel as needed.
- Support training and education of foundation staff on legal and
compliance issues.
- Some travel may be required.Your Experience Core Knowledge and
Skills
- 15-20 years of practice as: in-house counsel at a global
organization a well-regarded law firm/government enforcement
agency, or a combination of both.
- Experience issuing and responding to records requests,
subpoenas, and conducting records discovery across a range of
repositories (e.g., Office 365, SharePoint, phones/text, websites),
and reviewing and producing same in accordance with applicable
laws.
- Experience advising on both information security and physical
security incidents.
- Experience handling litigation and alternative dispute
resolution.
- Experience managing processes to improve efficiency.
- Experience managing people, or a demonstrable commitment to the
professional development of others, preferred.
- Planning and project management skills and ability to
communicate, meet and manage deadlines.
- Excellent writing and editing skills.
- Experience developing and delivering training and education
materials in a concise and consistent manner.
- Ability to work in a complex and fast-paced work
environment.
- Detail-oriented and self-motivated.
- Flexibility to multi-task and agility to advise internal
clients at all levels in the organization.
- Ability to communicate difficult legal concepts clearly and
non-legalistically to business clients orally and in writing.
- Ability to prioritize work in context of the foundation's risk
tolerance framework.
- Excellent collaboration skills in an environment that requires
diplomacy, maturity and good judgment.Decision-Making
AuthorityUnderstanding when a Managing Deputy Director may make a
decision independently or when the issue needs to be escalated. The
ability to confidently decide the application of the law and
provide balanced advice consistent with the Foundation's risk
tolerance and internal policies, as appropriate within the purview
of the Managing Deputy Director's job duties.Internal & External
ContactsCollaborate with business colleagues, subject matter
experts, and clients (internal - program staff and operations team
members; external - foundation related entities, partners, and
grantees); to provide support as well as implement best practice
and consistencies across the organization and the field.
Communication skills are critical in this role because of the
varied contacts with differing cultural, educational, political,
emotional, and otherwise unique experiences.Education and
ExperienceJD and U.S. bar membership (required) and 15-20 years of
practice as in-house counsel at a global organization or a
well-regarded law firm/government enforcement agency, or a
combination of both.Must be able to legally work in the country
where this position is located without visa sponsorship.The typical
salary range for this role is $313,000.00 to $485,300.00 USD. The
exact offer will be determined by a variety of factors such as the
candidate's individual skills, qualifications, and experience
relative to the requirements of the role. This role is based in
Seattle, Washington.#LI-SW1Hiring RequirementsAs part of our
standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be
contingent upon successful completion of a background
check.Candidate AccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a
disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit
a request .Inclusion StatementWe are dedicated to the belief that
all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural
workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and
inclusion - of voices, ideas, and approaches - and we support this
diversity through all our employment practices.All applicants and
employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of
opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age,
religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender
identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information,
veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Everett , Deputy Director, Legal, Accounting, Auditing , Seattle, Washington
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