Assistant General Counsel, Legal

The Foundation We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally. The Team "Guidance, Solutions, Integrity" describes the Legal division’s approach to providing responsive legal guidance supporting pursuit of the foundation’s mission and implementation of the foundation's programmatic and operational strategies. The Legal Team delivers comprehensive legal services by providing efficient and reliable legal guidance, managing legal risk, and supporting the development of solutions to achieve the mission of the foundation and its affiliated entities. The Legal Team partners with our colleagues across the foundation and its affiliated entities to enable mission-driven work by maintaining an efficient, well-run global organization where employees can thrive and make their best contributions. Doing this well requires effective collaboration, strong alignment, and thoughtful planning across both operational and programmatic teams - as well as shared accountability for mitigating risk and optimizing the foundation’s operational resources. Your Role We seek an individual to serve as Assistant General Counsel, Legal (India Country Office) on the foundation’s Legal Team and collaborate with other Legal Team members to represent the entire foundation and ensure effective coverage, work allocation and communication regarding legal issues across the foundation, all from a “one legal team” and “one foundation” perspective. Our efforts in India focus on key issues that will affect the future of India’s most vulnerable communities: reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition; urban sanitation; agricultural development; gender equality, and digital financial inclusion. With a particular focus on Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, we work with partners to develop impactful and sustainable solutions to improve the quality and coverage of key services for the poor and vulnerable. The postholder will be based at the foundation’s India Country Office in New Delhi, and report to a Director on the Legal Team based in Seattle. What You’ll Do- - Provide support for other legal matters or on foundation policies and issues as needed, including with respect to tax-exempt organizations, global access (making access to technology and products available at an affordable price in low and lower middle-income countries), data/privacy matters, artificial intelligence and intellectual property.- Support the Legal Team’s relationship managers for the foundation’s offices in India to provide legal guidance in furtherance of the foundation’s charitable objectives, colleagues in India, and understand the objectives and goals of internal client groups and support the development of creative solutions and resolution of issues within the foundation’s risk tolerance framework.- Serve as an active member of the Legal Team, collaborate with other members of the Legal Team and foundation personnel as appropriate and support broader legal team projects and foundation goals and policies as needed.- Demonstrate generalist expertise to identify legal issues and collaborate, where appropriate, with other legal team members to support the resolution of complex and strategic legal issues in India and other relevant geographies, in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.- Provide support to Legal Team colleagues to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements applicable to the foundation’s office in India, as well as help ensure foundation-wide consistency, including developing generalist familiarity and collaborating with other legal team members, on operational matters, including requirements related to tax, business registration, cybersecurity, insurance, records retention, and workplace health and safety.- Manage outside counsel as appropriate.- Contribute to legal process improvements that enhance efficiency and risk management.- Support training and education of foundation staff on legal issues. Keep current on and track relevant applicable new and emerging laws, policy developments and best practices, including those relating to tax-exempt organizations, private foundations, cross-border giving and operational compliance across India.- Travel to the U.S. on a consistent basis; travel to other Foundation offices as approp