Legal Counsel, Emergency Cash & U.S. Programs

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🌐 United States, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

💵 $114.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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GiveDirectly

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $1M Grant on 2018-03

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing direct cash transfers to individuals in need around the world. With a mission to help people living on less than $2. 15 per day, GiveDirectly empowers recipients to make their own financial decisions by delivering unconditional cash directly to them, leveraging mobile money technology. Their innovative approach has led to broad recognition and has been studied in numerous research projects. By bypassing traditional aid mechanisms, GiveDirectly aims to efficiently and scalably transform lives, offering targeted assistance in regions such as Bangladesh, Kenya, and the United States, among others.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary legal partner to Emergency Cash across program strategy, design, launch, and delivery • Build a repeatable legal model for emergency responses, covering country entry, regulatory review, government engagement, contracting, data use, and local counsel • Develop response-readiness tools, templates, and decision frameworks • Lead legal work during active emergency responses and provide clear recommendations under uncertainty • Coordinate with country teams, program-facing Counsel, and local advisors • Apply global standards for MNO data and remote enablement to individual responses • Draft and negotiate partnership, technology, vendor, data-sharing, and other agreements • Capture lessons from responses and strengthen the Emergency Cash legal model • Provide legal support for U.S. programs across design, implementation, expansion, and operations • Advise on recipient eligibility, public benefits, tax treatment, payments involving minors or caregivers, family law, privacy, data use, and state requirements • Structure and negotiate agreements with governments, research institutions, community organizations, payment providers, and other partners • Develop reusable guidance and coordinate state-specific or specialist counsel • Collaborate with Corporate & Business Affairs Counsel, Africa Programs & Country Operations Counsel, and Legal Operations • Support other priority legal matters within the global Legal team • Report to the Head of Legal

🎯 Requirements

• Qualification as an attorney in at least one jurisdiction, with relevant post-qualification legal experience • Experience advising on complex program, commercial, or regulatory matters in fast-moving or high-pressure environments • Strong commercial contracting skills, including drafting and negotiating complex partnership, technology, vendor, or data-related agreements • Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar legal and regulatory frameworks and advise where precedent, time, or information is limited • Strong legal and business judgment • Ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers • Experience coordinating external counsel, consultants, or specialist advisors • Working knowledge of data privacy and data protection law • Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and reprioritize quickly during active emergency responses • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; English fluency • Ability to overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours • Preferred: experience in emergency response, humanitarian operations, or crisis-context legal work • Preferred: experience supporting programs or operations in new countries • Preferred: experience with U.S. public-benefits, family-law, charitable-assistance, or government-program matters • Preferred: experience across multiple jurisdictions, particularly in emerging markets • Preferred: experience with vulnerable populations or sensitive personal data • Preferred: experience in international development or another mission-driven organization • Must be eligible to work in an eligible country; GiveDirectly cannot sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas in the U.S. or U.K.

🏖️ Benefits

• 15% bonus at target performance, with potential for upside • Annual benefits stipend: $21,393 (United States), £2,760 (United Kingdom), or $8,454 (Kenya) • Robust health benefits plan (exact details vary by country) • Flexible paid time off • Desk set-up allowance • Learning and development allowance • Supportive team • $3,000 referral reward for Senior Manager or above roles, paid if the referral is hired