What are the responsibilities and job description for the General Counsel position at Jobleads-US?
The Center for Rural Affairs seeks a dynamic and experienced General Counsel to support the organization's growth in community-based lending, clean energy finance, housing development finance, and organizational-wide legal, contractual, and compliance matters.
This strategic role will serve as a trusted advisor and is responsible for a wide range of contracts, loans, and insurance agreements, in addition to tax credit, regulatory, and industry compliance at both the federal and state levels.
Key Responsibilities
- Negotiate contracts and procurement agreements, ensuring the Center's contract, forms, and agreement templates are up-to-date and compliant with current laws and regulations.
- Advise the Solar for All team on energy law compliance, renewable energy tax credit compliance, negotiations, and contracts with developers and utilities.
- Advisethe lending team in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating loan-related documents and advising on legal matters over the full life cycle of loan agreements.
- Provide guidance on a wide range of agreements, staffing arrangements, vendor/contractor agreements and/or renewals, construction contracts, non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements, and insurance provisions.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school, active membership in good standing with the Nebraska State Bar (or ability to become), and registration as an in-house counsel in the state of Nebraska.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in one or more practice areas: corporate defense, legal research and writing, regulatory compliance, clean energy law, secured transactions and lending, real property law and conveyancing, nonprofit law, insurance, and administrative law.
- Strong organizational decision-making skills, experience working collaboratively with executive leadership, and interpersonal skills to work across all levels of the organization both internally and externally.
We seek a lawyer who is a fearless advocate, confident and resilient to drive capital into low-income communities and works well with diverse constituencies.
