Description:

A Non-Profit Organization is hiring a driven, passionate and detail-oriented Assistant General Counsel for our in-house legal department. Our legal department provides legal services to groups in our national network of environmental and public interest organizations on a wide variety of matters and practice areas.

Key Responsibilities:
The Assistant General Counsel will focus on a subset of the overall responsibilities of A Non-Profit Organization's Legal Department. This position requires exercising discretion and independent judgment in making decisions in matters of significance. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

Corporate and Tax Compliance: Fostering sound corporate governance practices, maintaining the organizations' good standing with federal and state corporate and tax regulators.
Election Law and Campaign Finance: Advising groups on options and structures for election-related work, including advising on non-partisan voter registration drives, neighborhood voter contact programs, tracking and reporting to FEC and state agencies, and guidelines for fundraising and communications.
First Amendment and Charitable Solicitation: Representing the organizations' right to conduct door-to-door and street canvassing.
Contracts: Drafting and reviewing contracts, leases and grant agreements.
Risk Management: Working with the organizations' leaders to adopt policies that protect the organizations from legal exposure.
Employment Practices: Advising on employment matters and benefits systems.

Qualifications:
A J.D. and state bar membership in good standing is required. The ideal candidate will have excellent academic credentials, ideally one to five years of legal experience working in one or more of the practice areas described above, and a strong desire and commitment to nonprofit and political work.

Successful candidates will also bring the following skills and attributes to the position:
Excellent verbal and written communication, research and negotiation skills;
Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously in diverse legal subject areas;
A team orientation that combines strong leadership, congeniality and creativity to drive and motivate others;
An outstanding work ethic and the ability to drive organizational change;
Enthusiasm for the mission of A Non-Profit Organization and its member organizations to effect grassroots social change, and a goal-oriented, activist orientation;
Comfort working with both the most senior staff (CEO, Executive Directors, other senior management staff) on major organizational strategies, and with training brand new staff on basic relevant legal principles in an understandable way; and
Prior experience working with or advising nonprofit organizations. Firsthand experience doing organizing, issue advocacy, or political work is a plus.