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 Team's approach to providing responsive legal guidance supporting the implementation of the foundation's strategies. The Legal Team offers creative solutions that accomplish programmatic objectives, develops, and implements efficient legal processes to streamline the foundation's grantmaking and contracting practices, and applies preventive legal strategies and compliance policies to minimize risks and safeguard the foundation's reputation.
Your Role
In this role, you will apply technical expertise to support global labor and employment legal activities related to Foundation and affiliate policies and processes. You will serve as a subject matter resource and develop documentation and guidance materials to support legal training and organizational change efforts. You will have the opportunity to support various compliance and labor and employment legal projects, including global expansion work, and assist with the development and delivery of project communications, and partner management. You will perform research on a variety of legal issues and understand, identify, and implement improvements to policies and processes. This position will provide input and solutions to support the development and implementation of efficient legal and guidance processes under the guidance of labor and employment attorneys.
What You'll Do

• Respond to and serve as point-person for global labor and employment matters submitted largely through an intake tracker tool.
• Conduct initial case or matter assessment, including internal compliance escalations.
• Annotate, summarize, or categorize legal advice, documents, or other information; assist with determining relevance and privilege.
• Support auditing activities across legal department and in partnership with foundation auditing team, project manager, and attorneys.
• Run and/or support a wide range of legal projects and processes and their related technology solutions, while proactively identifying and supporting opportunities for improvement.
• Identify and analyze business, legal, strategic, and reputational risks, and understand which partners and decision-makers need to be involved.
• Conduct quality interactions, including clear and consistent communications, with internal foundation employees, third parties, and outside partners.
• Conduct due diligence, document review, and document production in response to formal discovery requests or other requests for production.
• Assist with all phases of labor and employment litigation, pre-litigation, and dispute resolution.
• Lead collection of documents, including the management of labor and employment eDiscovery litigation databases, supervise and communicate legal hold notices and related requirements.

Your Experience

• Bachelor's degree and/or Paralegal certificate required.
• 10 years of experience working as an employment paralegal, with experience in both law firm and in-house settings required.

• In-house global labor and employment paralegal experience is strongly preferred.
• Sophisticated oral and written communication skills in an environment requiring tact and good judgment.
• Strong ability to work both independently and as an excellent teammate in a collaborative environment that moves work toward the achievement of goals.
• High level of interpersonal skills to develop and maintain positive relationships, establish trust, and treat others with dignity and respect.
• Creative problem-solving and ability to balance constantly evolving priorities and demands.
• Experience establishing organizational systems to improve efficiency and functioning in a changing environment.
• Experience using technology-based solutions, including electronic database management and current software and technology.
• MSFT Office suite (Excel, SharePoint proficiency required)

*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
The salary range for this role is $54.13 to $81.23 USD per hour. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $54.13 to $81.23 USD per hour. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.
Hiring Requirements
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Candidate Accommodations
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Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion - of voices, ideas, and approaches - and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.