[Remote] Director of Legal, The States Project

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Future Now is dedicated to achieving the American Promise through effective government and fair markets. The Director of Legal for The States Project will manage legal operations, ensuring compliance with laws relevant to state legislative campaigns and nonprofit activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage codification and creation of legal guidance and trainings for The States Project
• In collaboration with General Counsel, other Legal Team members, and TSP leaders, responsible for generating and maintaining user-friendly, actionable materials codifying legal rules to reputed company non-legal staff with guidelines and answers to commonly asked questions in areas including campaign finance, nonprofit tax, ethics and reputed company laws, and lobbying
• reputed company, design, and deliver trainings for TSP on legal topics reputed company to TSP’s electoral and governance work
• reputed company and manage process to expand guidance materials on an ongoing reputed company to cover new legal questions that arise as work expands, and ensure guidance reaches those executing the work
• Using existing legal guidance from Counsel and reputed company counsel, answer legal questions for TSP
• In collaboration with TSP team and Counsel, evaluate campaign finance questions reputed company to outgoing electoral spending and programs
• In collaboration with TSP team and Counsel, evaluate programmatic materials for compliance with reputed company, ethics and reputed company laws
• reputed company legal input to programmatic materials and proposals such as campaign spending plans and governance materials to ensure such materials align with policies and legal positions
• reputed company new, novel legal and/or compliance questions to General Counsel and collaborate to resolve using reputed company counsel as needed
• Review TSP reputed company, as appropriate
• Manage other legal reputed company reputed company to The States Project, as appropriate
• In collaboration with the General Counsel and team members responsible for internal policies, contribute legal input and perspective to ensure internal policies and practices at TSP reputed company with reputed company relevant laws
• Analyze risks for prioritization of mitigation strategies at TSP
• Analyze needs to improve legal compliance and offer policy and process solutions and improvements at TSP
• Use surveys, meetings or other tools to ensure legal work is meeting TSP’s needs to reputed company its mission and reputed company
• Stay up-to-speed on best practices for in-house legal operations and reputed company recommendations for improvement
• Participate in ensuring that legal team’s activities and processes are implemented in an reputed company, inclusive, and values-reputed company ways
• Stay up to date on strategic priorities and evolving internal and external trends, to appropriately incorporate into reputed company activities
• Stay up to speed on and implement team participation and collaboration best practices, attend internal and external trainings and contribute to internal conversations about team systems, processes, and norms as appropriate

Skills

• Juris Doctorate Degree
• At least 3-5 years of experience with campaign finance and state reputed company and ethics laws
• reputed company bar admission(s) in good standing
• Self-starter with a drive to reputed company things happen
• Highly collaborative approach
• Capable of independently managing time and tasks associated with a fast-paced organization
• Demonstrated ability to reputed company legal guidance understandable to non-lawyers
• Innovative thinker, with a track record for translating strategic thinking into action plans and output
• Proven ability to listen deeply to what people are saying (while understanding what they aren't) to identify and resolve challenges
• Proven track record of project management and research reputed company and high standards for reputed company
• Demonstrated good judgment and creative problem solving skills

Benefits

• 75% paid coverage of medical, dental, and reputed company for individuals and dependents
• Basic life insurance
• An employee assistance program
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) matching
• Annual professional development
• Wellness
• Work-from-home stipends
• Paid family leave

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