Position: Managing Director, Legal & Compliance (Remote)
Position Type: Internal-External
FLSA Classification: Exempt
Reports to: Amber Daniels, COO, (Remote – ET)
Start date: July 2024
Application Deadline: May 17, 2024
Location: strongly preferred in Illinois; flexible within the following states only assuming the candidate is also barred in Illinois: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin
Salary Range: $118,844-$143,769 is the hiring salary range (i.e. the range a candidate would be offered to start). Please note: OneGoal aligns salaries to Cost of Labor, so the actual salary offered would be dependent on the Cost of Labor in the candidate’s living location.
About OneGoal
OneGoal transforms postsecondary advising and support so that every student can define their own future. Together with our partners, we’re building a movement to close the opportunity gap. We work side-by-side with partner schools and districts to build their knowledge and capacity. The result is more equitable and effective support for all students. Our unique approach, honed over 15 years, prioritizes strong human relationships. And it’s proven to deliver real student impact. 81% of OneGoal high school graduates enroll in a postsecondary institution, and 73% of those students persist one year after high school graduation. An independent study by the University of Chicago found that OneGoal students are about 40% more likely to earn their postsecondary degrees than students from similar backgrounds. We are looking for individuals to join us in our pursuit of equity.
The Person
The Managing Director, Legal & Compliance operates as in-house counsel and is responsible for managing and prioritizing legal and compliance initiatives, project flow and deliverables, and coordinating with relevant stakeholders regarding the legal impact and associated risk of business strategies. They have the ability to address issues proactively and reactively by analyzing and providing legal expertise on a broad range of matters, however, identify primarily as a student data privacy expert. They work alongside the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer to promote a culture that maintains high legal and ethical behavior standards, and alongside the management team to ensure our program operations maintain the highest degree of compliance in the interest of our students.
This role will be the lead attorney for OneGoal and will work on a range of issues, with its main focus on partnership with schools and districts and the handling of responsibilities related to student data. OneGoal retains external counsel to support this role in managing other legal areas. This person will report to the Chief Operating Officer and will work closely with the Technology & Data, Finance, and Human Assets teams as well as external pro-bono and retained counsel.
This experienced leader will communicate and advocate for the value of risk management and influence the evolution of the risk management framework to ensure that it is appropriately dynamic and responsive and aligns with organizational objectives. They will train key stakeholders in developing a risk perspective for decision-making and process improvement. This role will help the organization plan and prepare our compliance infrastructure for delivering our program offerings in new and different environments as the organization grows and evolves.
You will do this by:
- Leading contracting and third-party risk management (50%)
- Draft, review, and negotiate agreements, including our agreements with schools, service agreements, consultancies, and vendor agreements, to uphold and manage our risk responsibilities while reaching ambitious shared goals with our school and district partners.
- Providing legal advice and steward compliance in partnership with key stakeholders (40%)
- Partner with the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Vice President of Human Assets in implementing organizational policies and procedures and managing enterprise risk management in our internal operations, including our federal and state regulation compliance efforts.
- In partnership with our Security Architect:
- Lead our efforts to be trusted stewards of student data, including compliance with our commitments to data privacy and security and data protection laws and education and training regarding our privacy and security practices and statements.
- Oversee implementation of commitments to families and schools about student data privacy, monitor for needed changes, and ensure compliance with the industry’s privacy and security legal requirements.
- Become an expert in OneGoal’s program design and implementation and generate creative recommendations for our legal strategy for future-facing programmatic decisions and tools
- Provide practical legal advice regarding relevant issues for an organization that partners with districts, schools, and post-secondary entities to provide professional development, curriculum materials, and technology platforms.
- Managing intellectual property (10%)
- Manage our intellectual property, including trademark portfolio, content and copyright protections, through contractual obligations and internal guidance; appropriately grant and document licensing and permissions arrangements and oversee training and compliance for internal stakeholders on IP creation, ownership, and protection.
The MD, Legal & Compliance is likely to see himself/herself/themselves in the following examples as they are designed to help you determine if this opportunity aligns with your own passion, purpose, skills, and experiences.
You thrive in complex and nonlinear systems.
- You like to explore and build innovative approaches and have designed new ways of doing things.
- You make connections, determine fits, and build plans that are responsive to interlocking and evolving challenges and opportunities.
- Contingency-planning and problem-solving excite you, and working to streamline and improve systems give you energy.
You love the big picture but are obsessed with the details.
- You’re able to easily navigate between high-level/big picture strategy and the day-to-day details that keep a team running and executing on key outcomes.
- You love managing the details and have systems/processes that ensure that things don’t fall through the cracks and that you consistently have a clear picture of where things are relative to short- and long-term goals.
You are a coalition builder.
- You cultivate relationships with the understanding that our students are best served when we collaborate to meet all of their needs.
- You are both humble and optimistic about the role OneGoal can play within a partner school, with a commitment to serving more students, better.
- You are driven both by data and experience, recognizing that decision-making and strategy require evidence as well as a drive to dream big.
You are a compelling and effective communicator.
- You have tremendous ability to adapt messages to different audiences in order to inspire stakeholders and build champions.
- You discern the appropriate mode of communication, depending on the situation and audience.
- You serve as an ambassador for OneGoal in every space you join.
Qualifications
- Licensed to practice law in Illinois (Required)
- Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality and sensitivity to the organization’s legal and compliance matters (Required)
- Experience working with legal processes or contracts (Required)
- Excellent communication skills and ability to interpret policies and procedures (Required)
- Outstanding organizational skills with extraordinary attention to detail
- Ability to effectively manage outside counsel firms and leverage help cost-effectively
- Superior analytical skills with the ability to distill feedback from disparate sources, make recommendations and decisions balancing legal requirements and business/managerial needs and to efficiently and effectively communicate those decisions with non-lawyers
- Ability to present complex and sensitive issues concisely and effectively
- Demonstrates empathy and ability to apply understanding of an audience to deliver desired products and/or services
- Ability to evaluate risk and resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to manage up and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Exceptional project management skills fueled by persistence and amazing follow through
- Curious, insightful and innovative with a natural bias for action, thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Views differences between individuals (race, gender, age, cultural heritage, physical ability, education and lifestyle) as an asset and demonstrates an appreciation of diversity within OneGoal and with our stakeholders
- Lived experience of the Students we serve (Preferred)
Thinking Of Applying?
Research shows that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you are excited about the role and see connection with what we are looking for, but don’t meet every single requirement, we’d encourage you to apply anyway. Please on the “Apply For This Job Now” link below to submit your application.
Our Team
Guided by a clear set of core values and beliefs, you will join an impressive group of more than 200 OneGoal staff across the country who believe in the untapped potential within students. The OneGoal team challenges themselves and others to regularly ask, “Is there a better way?” You believe in an inclusive and culturally competent society and the essence of our commitment to diversity and inclusion. We believe that in order to create the change we seek, each person we hire brings a remarkable and diverse set of experiences, skills and characteristics that individually and collectively, will contribute to the radical change needed to move us towards a more equitable and just nation.
The Tangible Good
OneGoal offers competitive compensation based on the market for nonprofits our size. Our benefits package* includes: over eight weeks of paid time off (or 43 business days), between vacation days, wellness time, and holidays; paid medical or parental leaves should you have need; medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance; as well as a 401(k) with a 3% match.
We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, OneGoal does not negotiate salary offers; instead each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the hiring process.
*OneGoal reserves the right to change benefits at anytime according to business need.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to submit an application or to participate in the application or interview process, please reach out to our Human Assets Team to request an accommodation. Our Human Assets Team can be contacted at 773-321-2630 or [email protected].
OneGoal is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of actual or perceived sex, race, color, ancestry, citizenship, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability (mental or physical), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, parenthood, genetic characteristic or information, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.