Senior Executive Business Partner, Office Of General Counsel

We are seeking a Senior Executive Business Partner (Sr. EBP), Office of General Counsel, to provide high-level strategic and administrative support to the Sr. Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and manage assigned workflow processes that flow in and out of the Office of General Counsel team.

In this role, the Sr. EBP will support the Chief Legal Officer across their full range of work-organizational leadership, internal collaboration, team management, and external relations -ensuring follow-through, prioritization, increased bandwidth and effective coordination of all engagements, work products, communications, scheduling, and travel. The Sr. EBP will also take primary responsibility for team coordination and communications work, including fostering a cohesive and supportive team culture through thoughtful meeting and retreat planning; developing internal communications and information-sharing resources (e.g. quarterly updates, Pivotal intranet site); and providing proactive problem solving, time programming, and strategic counsel.

The Sr. EBP will serve as Chief Legal Officer's proxy when appropriate and will work with the Chief Legal Officer to program their time to support the Office of General Counsel team (which includes Grants Management and Contracts) and its impact. This role requires top notch organizing and planning capacities, oral and written communication skills, proven expertise to build partnerships and strategic relationships, an ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality, strong judgment and decision-making skills, and a strategic mindset. Additionally, the Sr. EBP will be an integral member of the Office of General Counsel team, ensuring seamless integration and support across all legal functions. The Sr. EPB should be comfortable juggling multiple tasks and priorities as a part of the Office of General Counsel team, including tracking work assignments. The Chief Legal Officer will look to the Senior EBP to help them set their priorities and advance the team's agenda.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide Chief Legal Officer with Strategic and Executive Support

• Act as a key thought partner for the Chief Legal Officer, as well as a confidant and problem-solver on a wide range of topics to maintain her peak performance and optimal leadership to better serve the Office of General Counsel team's performance and outcomes.

• Perform daily scheduling while delivering strategic calendar management and tracking action items, improving effectiveness by identifying, balancing, and driving priorities, and strategically aligning time against these priorities.

• Facilitate approvals and information flow across the team, including the cascade from the executive leadership team, and provide guidance on engaging Chief Legal Officer as a partner on projects.

• Co-lead (with Chief Legal Officer and team managers) work on team culture, including coordinating team meetings and retreats, tracking projects, building and monitoring budgets, and maintaining team repositories (e.g. Sharepoint).

• Provide meeting support and distribute materials in advance of meetings on Chief Legal Officer's daily calendar.

• Coordinate and edit Office of General Counsel internal communications outputs.

• Lead travel planning and schedules for Chief Legal Officer, including transportation, accommodations, conference/event registrations, travel documentation, etc.

• Provide support on finance and budget matters, including team budget tracking, monthly individual expense approval process, and cost center management support.

• Administer Chief Legal Officer's contacts, network relationships, and touchpoints in the Customer Management Relationship (CRM) system and support management of the Chief Legal Officer's network.

• Review, design, and implement solutions and improvements to cross-team and cross-org challenges; regularly give forward-thinking input, recommendations, and constructive feedback to push the team forward.

• Represent the Chief Legal Officer in cross-functional team meetings to ensure communication flow and transparency between teams.

• Provide other administrative and strategic support as needed.

Advance the work of the Office of General Counsel, helping ensure the team has systems that enable it to operate effectively, strategically, and sustainably.

• Serve as a key partner to the Grants and Contracts team to help develop, maintain and track progress on key initiatives, such as teamwide systems, operating model improvements, and policy changes.

• Support the team in effectively sharing information, increasing access, and encouraging joint problem solving; communicating key updates and information, as needed

• Support key cross-team meetings and initiatives to increase visibility.

• Support development of a team culture that strengthens impact and champions belonging, ensuring the team has what it needs to effectively handle, advance, and deliver their work.

• Support planning for meetings and off-site team building events.

• Attend meetings or trips as needed; assist with prep, provide support, and/or handle follow-ups for Chief Legal Officer.

• Lead special projects and other duties as assigned.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or behavior required to be successful in this role.

• Demonstrated experience in maintaining confidentiality and privacy during highly sensitive situations, using discretion. Uphold and ensure security and confidentiality of all information.

• Exceptional organization and time management skills; ability to prioritize multiple tasks with constant interruptions, meet changing deadlines and requests, and strategically think ahead to anticipate and solve problems.

• Highly emotionally intelligent: understands people on a deeper level, anticipates unspoken needs, influences desired outcomes, and builds strong relationships.

• Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; able to gather, aggregate and disseminate information clearly and concisely

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where there is role overlap, ambiguity and conflicting points of view; comfortable working both independently and as part of team.

• Self-starter displaying a positive "can do" disposition and eagerness to dive right in and get things done.

• Ability to respond effectively under pressure maintaining a positive, cooperative and professional demeanor in stressful and time critical scenarios

• High integrity, discernment and sound judgment in decision-making.

• Ability to offer creative solutions to challenges and implement the best course of action.

• Commitment to continuous learning; views setbacks as takeaways and opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Enthusiasm and passion for philanthropy and personal commitment to the important role that women and girls can play in changing the world.

• A well-developed sense of humor and ability to collaborate with diverse groups, individuals and across multiple organizations, treating all with respect and consideration regardless of status or position.

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Outlook, OneNote, Word, Excel and SharePoint.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 10+ years of combined experience in an administrative and executive support role with heavy emphasis on strategic thought partnership, strategic time management, and calendaring and scheduling.

• Prior experience in the legal industry or a legal background is highly desirable, but not required.

Hourly compensation range for this role is from $74.23 - $78.36

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, long-term disability and long-term care insurance, fertility benefit, backup caregiving solution, 144 hours of vacation, 96 hours of sick leave, 401k, HSA, FSA, discretionary annual target performance bonus and more.