Assistant General Counsel, Contracts

Location: Hybrid role in New York, NY, or Washington, DC, United States. Travel: 0–10% domestic travel.

Salary: USD 130,000–140,000 per year.

Company

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (hirify.global) is a nonprofit organization supporting Planned Parenthood affiliates and advancing access to sexual and reproductive health care, education, advocacy, and related services across the United States.

What you will do

• Draft, review, revise, and negotiate contracts, business agreements, grants, sponsorships, commercial co-ventures, intellectual property licenses, and related legal documents.
• Create and maintain contract templates and support contract administration with the Finance Procurement team.
• Advise departments, executive leadership, staff, vendors, business partners, and other stakeholders on transactional and business-law matters.
• Work with internal legal staff and outside counsel to support safe and compliant National Office operations.
• Implement Office of General Counsel initiatives, including education and enforcement of organizational policies, state and federal regulations, and industry standards.
• Support other transactional, litigation, practice-management, and legal-affairs matters as assigned while adapting to shifting priorities.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an ABA-accredited law school.
• Eligible for bar admission to practice in New York or Washington, DC.
• At least four years of legal experience, including substantial counseling, drafting, and negotiation experience in commercial transactions and related practice areas.
• Knowledge of corporate transaction and contracting processes, including drafting, reviewing, revising, and negotiating business agreements.
• Exceptional research, analytical, problem-solving, strategic-thinking, and creative legal-advisory skills.
• Ability to provide sound business advice and legal counsel to business partners at all levels, including executives and senior leaders.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts accessibly.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships, work independently, prioritize without direction, and adapt practical legal advice to changing demands.
• Excellent judgment, risk-analysis and risk-determination experience, ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment, knowledge of contract law, and commitment to exceptional work products.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with and stylistic affinity for the ABA Manual of Style for Contract Drafting.
• Experience reviewing and drafting grant agreements.
• General knowledge of federal tax-exemption law and state nonprofit corporation laws.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, non-union employment in the Legal / Office of the General Counsel department.
• Workplace culture emphasizes belonging, continuous learning, individual contributions, diversity, inclusion, respect, integrity, customer focus, and innovation.
• Work involves collaboration with diverse stakeholders across organizational lines.