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Summary

The Paralegal / Compliance Associate will help administer compliance and ethics processes and provide general paralegal and administrative support for the Office of General Counsel.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Assist in tracking compliance and ethics matters delegated to the Office of General Counsel, obtain and provide updates to internal and external stakeholders – including donors – about these matters, and maintain complete, accurate, and up-to-date electronic records of assigned matters. (65%)
• Provide general administrative support to the Office of General Counsel, including submitting invoices for payment, reviewing monthly expenses for accuracy, helping to plan team meetings, and ensuring compliance with agency-wide policies and procedures. (15%)
• Prepare and file regulatory reports on behalf of Save the Children and its affiliates; perform other job duties as may be required (10%)
• Provide administrative support to the Vice President and General Counsel, including managing calendars and logistics for internal and external meetings, preparing travel arrangements and expense reports, and drafting correspondence as requested. (10%)

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, plus at least 2 years of relevant experience
• Experience at a law firm, government agency, or corporate legal department.
• Proven ability to handle multiple competing priorities and deadlines with demonstrated attention to detail.
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience documenting and reporting on compliance matters, including experience with compliance or case management software
• Experience working in an organization with international operations
• Experience with, or knowledge of, nonprofit organizations and/or international development and humanitarian operations
• Knowledge of legal requirements related to U.S. government grants and contracts
• Compliance Certification

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more. 

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share. 

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond.  As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging. 

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws. 

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.  

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all. 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)