Leave Cover - Temporary Associate General Counsel

Position Title: Leave Cover – Temporary Associate General Counsel

Department: Legal, Compliance, and Risk Management

Location: Remote in CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, VA, or WA

Key Relationships

Reports to: General Counsel

Direct Reports (number): N/A

Duration: This is a FT role for approx 5 months (end of March through end of August 2026), covering our AGC role while on leave

Salary: $12,000-$13,000 USD gross per month

We will determine where the salary offer will fall within this range based upon the evaluation of the qualifications during the stages of the recruitment process. Our transparent and equitable pay bands, as well as our salary offer based on the qualifications evaluated in our process, are integral parts of our organizational systems and intentional culture. The salary offer is not negotiated as we know that negotiation is not aligned with equity and best practices for ensuring fair pay for employees of all identities and backgrounds.

About Americares: Americares is a global health and disaster relief organization that helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day. Each year, Americares reaches 80 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

Americares Values:

We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated.

We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.

We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.

We are better together; partnership is at our core.

We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.

We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide legal support to the following internal clients: Development, MarComms, IT, Technical Unit, People and Talent, Country Offices and other clients as assigned.

• Analyze, negotiate, draft, and advise on a high volume of contracts in a short time frame, including but not limited to master services agreements, service level agreements, partnership agreements, pharmaceutical donation agreements, fundraising agreements, confidentiality agreements, licensing agreements, cause marketing agreements, MOUs, and domestic and international grants.

• Oversee charitable registration process and other fundraising compliance matters.

• Research and advise on applicable rules, laws, and regulations that govern our work, as well as organizational policies and procedures.

• Ensure current knowledge of applicable domestic and foreign legal requirements that affect the organization’s operations, as required.

• Manage legal issues in assigned country offices including registration, maintenance and dissolution of entities; labor and employment issues; contract issues; and other routine issues in coordination with General Counsel and cross-departmental stakeholders.

• Manage privacy compliance program.

• Provide generalist expertise to identify legal issues and collaborate and/or lead the resolution of such legal issues independently, with other LCRM Department members and/or cross-departmental leaders.

• Actively model and contribute to Americares values, work culture and mission.

• Engage in and contribute to team spaces with openness, global competencies, and a growth mindset

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

These competencies are required for the role:

• Extensive legal expertise and contracts oversight (with at least some of that experience coming from in-house counsel roles within a global non-profit organization).

• Sound legal judgement and excellent ethical compass.

• Demonstrated experience as a consultative business partner.

• Demonstrated ability to produce work with agility and at a high quality and volume.

• Demonstrated ability to work across many teams with diverse backgrounds as a team player.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Process and process-improvement oriented.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate conflict resolution, with a focus on communication and solutions.

• Success partnering with internal and external stakeholders in a remote working environment.

A JD degree is required. Must have an active Bar license and be in good standing.

Full US work authorization is required for this role.

Preferred competencies for this role:

• Fluency in languages that are spoken in at least one of our core locations (India, Philippines, Tanzania, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Colombia, etc.), in addition to English.

• Prior experience in a humanitarian and/or global health development organization.

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:

Ownership and results

Communication

Problem solving

Equity and inclusion

Teamwork and conflict resolution

Leadership

Prioritization

Management

Strategy and planning

Decision making

If you move forward at each stage in the process, the following steps are included in this role’s recruitment:

• Resume and written application questions

• Interview with People and Talent (videocall)

• Interview with General Counsel and Associate General Counsel (videocall)

• Interview with panel (videocall – internal stakeholders)

• Reference check

• Offer!

• Background check and onboarding