MAC Found
Associate General Counsel
Chicago Office
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 37 days ago
Corporate LawLeadership
About the role
- Job Description TO APPLY: This search is being led by John and Snyder.
- Interested, qualified attorneys may formally submit their application directly to the John and Snyder website.
- Applying to the MacArthur career site may cause delays in review of your application.
Responsibilities
- Review and draft grant agreements and related documents.
- Investments and impact investments: Review, draft, and negotiate documentation for the Foundation's traditional investment portfolio, including partnership agreements, subscription documents, and side letters.
- Legal systems and operations: Contribute to the development of templates, policies, and playbooks that support consistency and risk management across the Foundation's legal work.
- Participate in cross-functional working groups and support knowledge management infrastructure across the department.
- Support regulatory filings.
- Contribute to the development of templates, policies, and playbooks that support consistency and risk management across the Foundation's legal work.
- Help design and deliver legal training for Foundation staff.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience as a practicing lawyer in a firm, organization, or government
- Knowledge of private foundation tax law, nonprofit governance, and/or philanthropic sector regulation
- Familiarity with international grantmaking compliance, cross-border contracting, and/or OFAC/ATF requirements
- Experience advising on data privacy, technology agreements, and/or AI governance matters
- Experience designing legal systems, templates, and/or cross-functional processes
- Ability to think strategically and be solution oriented
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and work autonomously while maintaining strong alignment with department colleagues
- Ability to write and speak clearly and concisely to identify, assess, and resolve legal and business problems and to summarize complex information
- Experience balancing risk management with innovation in a fast-moving legal environment
- Required
- Juris Doctor from an accredited institution with a record of strong academic and professional achievement
- Current admission to the Illinois State Bar, an ability and willingness to sit for the bar exam for admission to Illinois Bar, or eligibility for immediate admission as registered in-house counsel
- Preferred
- Prior in-house experience, ideally with a not-for-profit organization
- Experience with investment and/or impact investment deals, including equity and debt structures
- Experience negotiating and drafting contracts, legal memoranda, investment documents and other agreements
- Competencies
- Experience managing a wide range of multiple projects, clients, and issues simultaneously in a role requiring a broad base of knowledge, being able to respond timely to multiple requests with different priorities and reacting to new ideas and changing strategies
Skills
- The John D. and Catherine T.
- MacArthur Foundation is one of the nation's largest independent foundations.
- Contribute to the development of consistent legal frameworks and department-wide practices in a quickly evolving operating environment.
- Advise on novel and complex legal and risk questions where established precedent may be limited.
Compensation
- Annual salary for this role will start at $174,800.
Benefits
- Staff training and legal education: Help design and deliver legal training for Foundation staff.
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