Senior Attorney, Impact and Carbon Finance

Overview

This Senior Attorney role provides legal advice and direction on complex matters for assigned global programs and strategies, including (but not limited to) Impact Finance and Markets, Tackle Climate Change and Policy and Public Funding, with a focus on climate and carbon-related matters.

The role supports the design, structuring, and implementation of complex projects, including transaction negotiation, corporate entity structuring and governance, carbon credit generation, and carbon credit sales. The Senior Attorney ensures transactions and activities are legally sound and consistent with the organization’s mission, authority, policies, and procedures.

This is a remote role based in the United States, with approximately 10% of time available for work-related travel. Optional workspaces at local offices may be available depending on location.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and transactional support for global teams working on carbon markets, climate initiatives, global conservation transactions, and related activities.
• Structure, draft, and negotiate agreements and transactional documents to implement complex carbon and climate-related transactions, including:
  • Finance agreements
  • Carbon credit generation and sales
  • Carbon offtake and pre-payment agreements
• Support global transactions with for-profit entities, NGOs, sovereign, and quasi-sovereign counterparties, including drafting and reviewing other commercial and philanthropic agreements.
• Partner with multidisciplinary client teams to structure and implement complex projects, including advising on corporate entity structuring, governance, and management issues for global programs, subsidiaries, and affiliated entities.
• Apply analytical judgment and risk-management skills to serve organizational needs efficiently and effectively.
• Clearly articulate complex and novel legal concepts—including questions of first impression—and present options to non-lawyer stakeholders.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships across the organization, supporting high-value transactions and organizational decision-making.
• Work within the Impact Legal Team and the broader Corporate Services Legal Team, and may also support other functions, including advising on corporate governance matters for subsidiaries and affiliated entities.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate (or equivalent) and a license to practice law in at least one United States jurisdiction.
• Five (5) years of relevant legal experience, including significant experience drafting and negotiating complex agreements.
• Strong corporate transactional background, including demonstrated experience in corporate structuring and corporate governance.
• In-house experience and/or law firm experience advising sophisticated clients and senior management with a global presence.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely as part of a team handling multiple projects and transactions concurrently.
• Sound business and deal sense.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing, directing, managing multiple projects and implementing strategic program goals.
• Carbon markets and/or climate experience, such as working with carbon projects, carbon-related regulations, carbon offtake and pre-payment agreements, and different carbon credit methodologies.
• Familiarity with carbon regulations in multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience working with tax-exempt organizations, including on tax and funding matters.
• Experience engaging and collaborating with outside counsel, including country-specific local counsel.
• Experience working across cultures and cultural sensitivity.
• Flexibility and collegiality.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary Information

• This position may be based in any country where the organization has an established entity, taking into consideration legal restrictions, such as non-national ratios and immigration processing times.
• For U.S.-based applicants only: starting pay range is generally $150,000–$200,000 for annual base salary, based on location, qualifications, specific skills, and experience.
• This range only applies to candidates whose country of employment is the USA.
• For all other applicants, pay ranges will be in local currency, based on the local labor market, and not tied to the above pay range.
• Geographic location will be confirmed during recruitment and used to determine the actual pay range.
• Actual pay will fall within a range based on a variety of factors, including the candidate’s qualifications, specific skills, and experience.

Benefits (as provided in the posting)

• Health care benefits
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match
• Parental leave
• Accrued paid time off
• Life insurance
• Disability coverage
• Employee assistance program
• Other life and work well-being benefits

Location

Remote role based in the United States, with approximately 10% of time available for work-related travel. Optional workspaces at local offices may be available depending on location.

Additional Information

• The organization’s recruiting process includes a rolling interview process and applications may be reviewed in the order received.
• The successful applicant must meet the requirements of the organization’s background screening process.
• Accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in the job application process.