General Counsel
Overview
Enveritas, Inc. is seeking a legal expert to serve as General Counsel to help us drive impact and change for coffee and cocoa farmers around the world. We are looking for a creative, thoughtful and pro-active attorney who wants to apply their skills in the social impact sector. The right candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and the energy and discipline to come in and be a builder in a start-up environment.
Job Description
Enveritas builds solutions to improve the measure of sustainability in agricultural supply chains and include smallholder farmers in responsibly sourced agricultural products, in particular coffee and cocoa. A key component of this requires developing and financing projects that directly improve sustainability of production and benefit the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. We are a dynamic non-profit organization working across 26 coffee and cocoa growing countries around the world, with a remote-first environment. We bring together tech and machine learning with rigorous field processes to collect and process data on supply chain sustainability and environmental impact. This is made possible by a hard working and diverse team that is dedicated to delivering impact to smallholder farmers and developing more sustainable coffee and cocoa supply chains.
Responsibilities
- - Providing legal advice on all matters related to Enveritas'' US and international operations
- - Contract review: review, draft, and negotiate agreements between clients and Enveritas
- - Providing policy and legal advice across departments: flag important issues and potential legal risks to leadership and department leads
- - Strategic planning: contribute to programmatic priorities, be a thought partner with the leadership team
- - Management of foreign subsidiary registrations: engage, manage and communicate with local lawyers, including but not limited to issues around HR, Finance, local laws and regulations
- - Data protection: overseeing new and changing data privacy laws on an international scope, translating laws into concrete action items as it relates to staff/clients/farmers'' data protection
- - Employment matters: provide advice on management of US and international PEO, EORs and independent contractors
- - And other duties as assigned
Required Skills
- - Minimum of 10 years experience as a practicing attorney in the United States, preferably with in-house experience at a global company
- - JD or LLM from an accredited US law school
- - Must be licensed to practice law in the United States and be able to work without a sponsorship
- - Demonstrated understanding of software and/or SaaS industry, intellectual property law, data privacy (including GDPR), tax law, employment law, contract law/compliance, ESG issues (including EUDR), and overall corporate compliance, preferably in a small organization with growth aspirations
- - Prior experience in global non-profits, multinational corporation, or law firm
- - Prior experience managing international local counsel
- - Ability to think strategically and develop innovative legal strategies that align with the organization’s goals and objectives, while also anticipating and addressing potential legal challenges and risks
- - Ability to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, including senior management, as well as external partners, clients, regulators and legal counsel
- - Someone at ease in a changing sector and able to excel by operating with a sense of urgency while remaining flexible, open-minded and resourceful
Benefits
- - 401k with matching contributions
- - Medical, Dental, Vision
- - Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- - Four weeks paid vacation, in addition to US standard holidays and personal/sick time
- - Flexible work hours
- - Stipend for professional development and remote work set-up
About the company
Enveritas provides sustainability assurance for the coffee industry. We visit smallholder coffee farms around the world to understand their social, economic, and environmental practices. In 2022, we will visit 50,000 farms across more than 20 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.