Director – Legal Affairs

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🕒 July 22

🌏 Anywhere in the World

💵 $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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FOS

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11 - 50 employees

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

Logistics • Consulting • Construction

FOS is a real estate investment and management company that treats each of its properties as a stand-alone business, managed by a dedicated team of in-house experts. This approach focuses on creating value and maximizing profitability while ensuring high operational and maintenance standards. With a reputation as a best-in-class operator, FOS partners with premier organizations to manage their corporate headquarters, integrating customized programs to maintain professionalism and efficiency across all properties.

📋 Description

• Serve as the principal legal advisor to the CEO, providing strategic counsel on legal, governance, organizational, operational, advocacy, and institutional development matters. • Translate complex legal issues into practical, strategic guidance for non-legal colleagues. • Advise on legal, operational, political, and reputational risks affecting organizational decision-making. • Coordinate and oversee outside legal counsel across the multiple jurisdictions where Fos Feminista operates. • Develop and maintain strategic relationships with outside legal counsel, including pro bono law firms and specialized legal experts across multiple jurisdictions. • Support the CEO and leadership to ensure legal considerations support long-term organizational strategy and institutional resilience. • Advise on organizational initiatives and implementation. • Provide legal guidance on matters relating to organizational sustainability, financial resilience, and long-term institutional development. • Monitor geopolitical and regulatory developments affecting Fòs Feminista's global work. • Maintain and regularly update an organizational risk register to document risks. • Support executive decision-making by integrating legal analysis with organizational, political, and operational considerations. • Ensure compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements across the United States, hiring locations, and other jurisdictions. • Oversee contracts, grant agreements, procurement, intellectual property, employment matters, privacy, and corporate compliance. • Advise on nonprofit regulations, charitable solicitation, lobbying restrictions, advocacy activities, and tax-exempt requirements. • Provide legal oversight and advice for maintaining compliance obligations and appropriate separations for operating both the 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities. • Design and strengthen institutional policies, employment practices, and compliance systems, reviewing to ensure compliance in alignment with risk management that promote accountability while enabling innovation. • Support governance processes across Fòs Feminista's constellation of affiliated organizations and legal entities, including oversight to ensure all annual filings/requirements are met. • Support the maintenance and development of bylaws, governance policies, corporate records, and governance frameworks. • Provide legal guidance across Fòs Feminista's constellation of affiliated organizations, subsidiaries, partnerships, and collaborative initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree. • Minimum of ten years of progressive legal experience in corporate governance, nonprofit law, and supporting multi-entity structures across multiple countries and legal jurisdictions. • Experience advising international nonprofit organizations, philanthropic institutions, or mission-driven organizations. • Demonstrated experience advising executive leadership and governing boards. • Demonstrated ability to build and manage trusted networks of external advisors and partners in support of organizational mission. • Exceptional ability to analyze and translate complex legal issues into practical guidance for senior leaders and non-lawyers. • Willingness to learn about and build expertise in specialized areas of international corporate and financial law. • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinating across diverse teams with exceptional interpersonal skills. • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English, with intermediate knowledge of Spanish.

🏖️ Benefits

• private health coverage • life insurance • retirement benefits • paid sick leave • vacation leave • parental leave • holidays • flexible working arrangements