Key skills
Risk Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Serves as the legal liaison to organizational units and senior executives on legal, administrative and management issues.
- Provides legal advice and counsel to a range of staff members.
- Manages outside counsel overseas.
- Tracks relevant legal developments, formulates courses of action, drafts correspondence and/or policies and procedures to resolve legal issues.
- Finds opportunities to advance the organization in complex areas and mitigate legal risk.
- Interacts with funding, government, and regulatory agencies to represent the interests of the organization.
- Contributes to an organizational culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Ensures proper filing of relevant legal records.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor or its international equivalent from a recognized school of law.
- 7+ years of experience with a law firm, government and/or in-house legal department.
- Experience working in international contexts.
- Validated legal expertise in two or more relevant areas and curiosity about learning more (overseas employment law, government contracting, commercial contracting, risk management, and corporate governance in international operations).
- Licensed to practice law in one or more jurisdictions within the United States.
- French language skills a plus.
Benefits
- FHI 360 contributes 7% of monthly base pay to a money purchase pension plan account.
- 18 days of paid vacation per year.
- 12 sick days per year.
- 11 holidays per year.
- Paid time off is reduced pro rata for employees working less than a full-time schedule.