Job description

What We Do

With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.

Strategies We Pursue

• Equip talent in underinvested communities with the skills and credentials to compete successfully for quality income and wealth opportunities.
• Invest in businesses, housing and other community infrastructure to catalyze economic, health, safety and educational mobility for individuals and communities.
• Strengthen existing alliances while building new collaborations to increase our impact on the progress of people and places.
• Develop leadership and the capacity of partners to advance our work together
• Drive local, regional, and national policy and system changes that foster broadly shared prosperity and well-being.

Over the last 40 years, LISC and its affiliates have invested approximately $22 billion in businesses, affordable housing, health, educational mobility, community and recreational facilities, public safety, employment and other projects that help to revitalize and stabilize underinvested communities. Headquartered in New York City, LISC’s reach spans the country from East coast to West coast in 38 markets with offices extending from Buffalo to the Bay Area and in 2,400 rural counties across 49 states and Puerto Rico. Visit us at www.lisc.org

The Job

LISC is seeking a manager to join its in-house legal department, which currently consists of sixteen attorneys and support staff. The department handles a diverse, interesting, and challenging workload relating to LISC’s operations, including its core lending, government contracting, and fund management businesses, that enable LISC to implement its many programs helping communities rebuild and renew.

The manager will work with department lawyers as well as with personnel from other LISC departments to manage legal department operations and to execute projects to improve processes for the delivery of legal services to other LISC departments. The manager will be focused on enabling the legal department to collaborate effectively across OneLISC and to deliver excellent legal services to the organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The following are an indication of the position’s core responsibilities; these are intended to illustrate the scope of responsibilities, and are not exclusive of other duties that may be required.

· Analyze and recommend improvements for workflows, which will include collaboration with other LISC departments, process coordination and refinement, and role management. Support and advance relationships with key departments across LISC with which the legal department interacts on a regular basis.

· Manage and support work assignments, together with department leadership, to ensure that each member of the department is handling a variety of assignments that meet the organization’s needs while providing opportunities for career development; proactively monitor department workload to inform staffing.

· Monitor department financial performance versus budget, including developing mechanisms and reports and analyzing data to inform decision-making.

· Manage and support, together with department leadership, LISC’s use of outside counsel.

· Coordinate recruitment and hiring of new team members, including onboarding and integration of new members into the department.

· Coordinate and develop agendas and substantive topics and presentations for department meetings.

· Organize and support the annual review process.

· Develop and manage initiatives to create a cohesive team and meaningful connections within the department.

· Contribute to the development of legal team effectiveness and provide support in achieving legal team goals.

Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required or commensurate relevant work experience.

· Minimum 3 management experience within a financial institution or a professional services firm required, including substantial project management experience, experience with legal operations preferred.

· Strong interest in the community development and impact investing fields.

· Good organizational abilities; strong work ethic; sees tasks through to completion.

· Being willing and able to cover a wide range and level of tasks - from thinking strategically to troubleshooting detail where needed.

· Creative problem solver: being able to spot issues and implement solutions.

· Comfortable working in a fast paced, high volume, fluid working environment, as well as a cooperative ‘team first’ attitude.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills.

· Fluency with office software such as MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)

Compensation

LISC offers a competitive salary and excellent fringe benefits

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume via email.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

LISC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND JUSTICE

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• New York, NY 10005: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Project management: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: One location

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