General Counsel

• Serve as the primary legal partner to Emergency Cash across program strategy, design, launch, and delivery
• Build a repeatable legal model for emergency responses, covering country entry, regulatory review, government engagement, contracting, data use, and local counsel
• Develop response-readiness tools, templates, and decision frameworks
• Lead legal work during active emergency responses and provide clear recommendations under uncertainty
• Coordinate with country teams, program-facing Counsel, and local advisors
• Apply global standards for MNO data and remote enablement to individual responses
• Draft and negotiate partnership, technology, vendor, data-sharing, and other agreements
• Capture lessons from responses and strengthen the Emergency Cash legal model
• Provide legal support for U.S. programs across design, implementation, expansion, and operations
• Advise on recipient eligibility, public benefits, tax treatment, payments involving minors or caregivers, family law, privacy, data use, and state requirements
• Structure and negotiate agreements with governments, research institutions, community organizations, payment providers, and other partners
• Develop reusable guidance and coordinate state-specific or specialist counsel
• Collaborate with Corporate & Business Affairs Counsel, Africa Programs & Country Operations Counsel, and Legal Operations
• Support other priority legal matters within the global Legal team
• Report to the Head of Legal

Legal Counsel, Emergency Cash & U.S. Programs

• Build GiveDirectly’s Business Affairs capability and serve as a primary legal partner to global functions
• Advise Partnerships and Fundraising, People, Finance, Communications, Technology, Product, Grants Management, and public affairs teams
• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex corporate partnerships, funding arrangements, technology and vendor agreements, and strategic transactions
• Advise on corporate, commercial, employment, privacy, nonprofit, and operational matters
• Build templates, playbooks, and repeatable approaches for recurring legal work
• Advise on significant or non-standard gifts, including bequests, donor-advised fund grants, restricted gifts, securities, cryptocurrency, and other non-cash contributions
• Draft and review gift agreements, donor restrictions, planned-giving documentation, and funding arrangements
• Advise on charitable solicitation, fundraising disclosures, sponsorships, cause-marketing arrangements, commercial co-ventures, and nonprofit regulatory requirements
• Support public affairs, Communications, and other teams on lobbying, advocacy, public-policy engagement, and political-activity restrictions
• Lead legal strategy for products, partnerships, and operating models affecting multiple programs, countries, or teams
• Develop GiveDirectly’s legal and regulatory approach to Data Partnerships, MNO data, and remote enablement
• Lead legal work establishing relationships with MNOs, governments, and other data holders
• Advise on data privacy, consent, data sharing, telecommunications regulation, and responsible data use
• Draft and negotiate NDAs, data-sharing agreements, MoUs, and related arrangements
• Support engagement with regulators and government partners
• Translate organization-wide legal approaches into workable models for particular countries and programs
• Coordinate external and local counsel
• Partner with other Counsel on cross-portfolio matters
• Take ownership of priority legal matters as organizational needs evolve
• Strengthen standards, tools, and ways of working across the global Legal team
• Reports to the Head of Legal

General Counsel jobs in Kenya

Legal Counsel, Emergency Cash & U.S. Programs

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