Responsibilities:

• Provide legal representation to the Organization, support the work of the Organization and manage the full range of legal strategies 
• Set the strategy and goals for the Legal team in alignment with the larger organizational goals
• Lead complex legal projects that span legal, business, and functional boundaries (e.g., cross geographies, subject matter areas, jurisdictions, organizations and business models)
• Provide counsel to staff in all departments on a variety of complex issues. Identify, research, and analyze legal issues that affect the Organization and its activities at the local, state, federal and international levels associated with the Organization’s activities, ongoing operations, and strategic initiatives, including but not limited to, revenue diversification, and jurisdictional and programmatic expansion. Develop and implement staff-friendly plans, systems and procedures
• Develop and provide trainings on legal issues, processes and policies to multi-level audiences in all departments in Country Offices and Global Offices
• Supervise Legal Affairs staff and oversee a department that can appropriately support Room to Read utilizing a mix of paid staff, interns, paid outside counsel, pro bono outside counsel, volunteers and support from other non-profit organizations
• Develop and manage the legal department budget
• Special projects and other duties, as assigned

Qualifications:

Required

• Minimum of 10 years of experience including significant professional experience as a transactional attorney
• JD from an accredited institution with active bar membership, preferably China.
• Experience advising senior management of complex, international organizations
• Strong analytical skills and demonstrated ability to understand complex legal concepts and analysis and translate those to non-lawyers to create practical processes, guidance and training
• Prior success building relationships and communicating with diverse groups of people

• Demonstrable legal analytical skills, general business acumen and expertise in several of the core areas of work listed below:
• Compliance and rules applicable to non-profit, charitable organizations in the China and in foreign jurisdictions
• Contract review and management in the China and in foreign jurisdictions
• Employment law
• Corporate governance
• Enterprise wide risk mitigation
• Intellectual property, content management, licensing

• Strong project management skills with attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong teamwork and client service skills; experience exercising influence and managing change while having an open and inclusive tone; solution-oriented

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, growth-oriented global or regional organization
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to work through challenging situations
• Administratively self-sufficient with demonstrated skill with Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Strongly preferred:

• Expertise in working with non-profits
• In-house experience
• International experience