Corporate Counsel/Legal Counsel
Posted on Oct 9, 2024 by Janes
Arlington, VA
Legal
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Full-Time
Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.
Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.
Job purpose
The role of the Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel is established to support Janes business on various legal matters including drafting, negotiating and reviewing variety of legal contractsand arrangements. The role also requires proactively managing existing and new Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (e.g. GSA Schedules, Fedlink etc), agency/ client contracts (including FAR's-DFAR's, blanket agreements, fixed price contracts and task orders) in accordance with corporate goals and objectives. The Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel shall be responsible for working and collaborating with the General Counsel and rest of the legal team to support and advise internal stakeholders on variety of all legal matters within a close knit inhouse legal and compliance function.
Role will be based in the Janes offices in Arlington, VA, and will directly report into the General Counsel (based in the UK) and will be an integral part of the Janes Global Legal and Compliance Team. The role will involve providing day to day assistance and support tothe General Counsel to operate with maximum efficiency when providing legal and compliance related support to the Global Janes colleagues. There will also be an emphasis on assisting with legal & regulatory Compliance and corporate governance matters.
This is an exciting opportunity for a right individual to work in a vibrant Legal and Compliance function supporting a unique business that works with global customers that are Government agencies and defence industry.
How you will contribute at Janes
Draft, review, interpret, advise and negotiate on variety of legal contractual arrangements with global customers including US/Canadian/South Americangovernment customers, commercial companies in the Americas, suppliers etc. as per the Janes Legal playbook/precedence and acceptable standards and policies.
Manage and maintain compliance with Fedlink, GSA and other govt contracting schedules and portals.
Strong ability to read, interpret and evaluate legal terms and conditions, assess risks to Janes and ability to negotiate and communicate findings to sales management that is aligned with wider legal team approach.
Ensure the organization’s internal Legal contracts documents/repository are well maintained.
Provide advice and guidance to the different teams relating to contract generation and review.
Assist General Counsel in implementing and manging internal legal process and procedures.
Provide support and advice on new potential businesses opportunities being mindful of legal aspects including intellectual property, data privacy etc.
Supporting compliance screening processes and ensuring company complies with its regulatory requirements and internal policies including due diligence screenings, general compliance investigations etc.
Monitor and manage internal processes to prevent or handle appropriately any actual or likely violations of legal guidelines and internal policies.
Evaluate the efficiency of controls, monitor and improve compliance processes and policies continuously.
Willingness to travel, if required.
Individual with analytical reasoning, problem-solving ability and logical reasoning
Requirements
US qualified attorney or an experienced contracts manager with ability to demonstrate a solid legal interpretation and drafting skills.
Previous altleast 2 years’ experience working with federal/government contracts(SAM.gov) and regulatory compliance experience required.
Willington to work as a part of the global legal function to ensure legal support consistency
Preferable experience working in a fast-paced data licensing business or technology business in one of more of key areas of compliance, regulatory, federal contracting and good understanding of Intellectual Property and data privacy.
Comfortable working as part of a multidimensional Legal team and a team player
Ability to exemplify strong attention to detail and ability to come up with legal improvement processes and policies.
Previous experience working within Legal and compliance team is strongly preferred.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to write contracts, business correspondence with senior management colleagues, and procedures with conformance to the prescribed style and format.
Detail oriented – attention to detail is crucial in this role.
Capable of professionally managing confidential information
Hybrid working with at least 2-3 days based in the office, located in Rosslyn, Virginia.
Preferred qualifications:
JD/ Bachelor’s degree in law, management, contracting or other related field
Certified Commercial Contracts Manager (CCCM), Certified Federal Contracts Manager (CFCM) or Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) credentials are preferred.
2 to 5 years’ Federal contract management experience.
Why work for us
We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.
Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.
Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believes that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this.
We will always consider part time or flexible applications.
Benefits
15 days vacation
9 days flexible time off
12 paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
401k retirement plan with company match and immediate vesting
Hybrid work schedule/flexibility
Company paid life and disability insurance
Healthy Half
Volunteering time
Weekly fresh fruit delivery (we just started this and people are liking it)!
Learning & Development opportunities (GoodHabitz, Mentoring)
Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.
Job purpose
The role of the Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel is established to support Janes business on various legal matters including drafting, negotiating and reviewing variety of legal contractsand arrangements. The role also requires proactively managing existing and new Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (e.g. GSA Schedules, Fedlink etc), agency/ client contracts (including FAR's-DFAR's, blanket agreements, fixed price contracts and task orders) in accordance with corporate goals and objectives. The Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel shall be responsible for working and collaborating with the General Counsel and rest of the legal team to support and advise internal stakeholders on variety of all legal matters within a close knit inhouse legal and compliance function.
Role will be based in the Janes offices in Arlington, VA, and will directly report into the General Counsel (based in the UK) and will be an integral part of the Janes Global Legal and Compliance Team. The role will involve providing day to day assistance and support tothe General Counsel to operate with maximum efficiency when providing legal and compliance related support to the Global Janes colleagues. There will also be an emphasis on assisting with legal & regulatory Compliance and corporate governance matters.
This is an exciting opportunity for a right individual to work in a vibrant Legal and Compliance function supporting a unique business that works with global customers that are Government agencies and defence industry.
How you will contribute at Janes
Draft, review, interpret, advise and negotiate on variety of legal contractual arrangements with global customers including US/Canadian/South Americangovernment customers, commercial companies in the Americas, suppliers etc. as per the Janes Legal playbook/precedence and acceptable standards and policies.
Manage and maintain compliance with Fedlink, GSA and other govt contracting schedules and portals.
Strong ability to read, interpret and evaluate legal terms and conditions, assess risks to Janes and ability to negotiate and communicate findings to sales management that is aligned with wider legal team approach.
Ensure the organization’s internal Legal contracts documents/repository are well maintained.
Provide advice and guidance to the different teams relating to contract generation and review.
Assist General Counsel in implementing and manging internal legal process and procedures.
Provide support and advice on new potential businesses opportunities being mindful of legal aspects including intellectual property, data privacy etc.
Supporting compliance screening processes and ensuring company complies with its regulatory requirements and internal policies including due diligence screenings, general compliance investigations etc.
Monitor and manage internal processes to prevent or handle appropriately any actual or likely violations of legal guidelines and internal policies.
Evaluate the efficiency of controls, monitor and improve compliance processes and policies continuously.
Willingness to travel, if required.
Individual with analytical reasoning, problem-solving ability and logical reasoning
Requirements
US qualified attorney or an experienced contracts manager with ability to demonstrate a solid legal interpretation and drafting skills.
Previous altleast 2 years’ experience working with federal/government contracts(SAM.gov) and regulatory compliance experience required.
Willington to work as a part of the global legal function to ensure legal support consistency
Preferable experience working in a fast-paced data licensing business or technology business in one of more of key areas of compliance, regulatory, federal contracting and good understanding of Intellectual Property and data privacy.
Comfortable working as part of a multidimensional Legal team and a team player
Ability to exemplify strong attention to detail and ability to come up with legal improvement processes and policies.
Previous experience working within Legal and compliance team is strongly preferred.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to write contracts, business correspondence with senior management colleagues, and procedures with conformance to the prescribed style and format.
Detail oriented – attention to detail is crucial in this role.
Capable of professionally managing confidential information
Hybrid working with at least 2-3 days based in the office, located in Rosslyn, Virginia.
Preferred qualifications:
JD/ Bachelor’s degree in law, management, contracting or other related field
Certified Commercial Contracts Manager (CCCM), Certified Federal Contracts Manager (CFCM) or Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) credentials are preferred.
2 to 5 years’ Federal contract management experience.
Why work for us
We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.
Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.
Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believes that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this.
We will always consider part time or flexible applications.
Benefits
15 days vacation
9 days flexible time off
12 paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
401k retirement plan with company match and immediate vesting
Hybrid work schedule/flexibility
Company paid life and disability insurance
Healthy Half
Volunteering time
Weekly fresh fruit delivery (we just started this and people are liking it)!
Learning & Development opportunities (GoodHabitz, Mentoring)
Reference: 203845651
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Corporate Counsel/Legal Counsel
Posted on Oct 9, 2024 by Janes
Arlington, VA
Legal
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Full-Time
Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.
Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.
Job purpose
The role of the Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel is established to support Janes business on various legal matters including drafting, negotiating and reviewing variety of legal contractsand arrangements. The role also requires proactively managing existing and new Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (e.g. GSA Schedules, Fedlink etc), agency/ client contracts (including FAR's-DFAR's, blanket agreements, fixed price contracts and task orders) in accordance with corporate goals and objectives. The Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel shall be responsible for working and collaborating with the General Counsel and rest of the legal team to support and advise internal stakeholders on variety of all legal matters within a close knit inhouse legal and compliance function.
Role will be based in the Janes offices in Arlington, VA, and will directly report into the General Counsel (based in the UK) and will be an integral part of the Janes Global Legal and Compliance Team. The role will involve providing day to day assistance and support tothe General Counsel to operate with maximum efficiency when providing legal and compliance related support to the Global Janes colleagues. There will also be an emphasis on assisting with legal & regulatory Compliance and corporate governance matters.
This is an exciting opportunity for a right individual to work in a vibrant Legal and Compliance function supporting a unique business that works with global customers that are Government agencies and defence industry.
How you will contribute at Janes
Draft, review, interpret, advise and negotiate on variety of legal contractual arrangements with global customers including US/Canadian/South Americangovernment customers, commercial companies in the Americas, suppliers etc. as per the Janes Legal playbook/precedence and acceptable standards and policies.
Manage and maintain compliance with Fedlink, GSA and other govt contracting schedules and portals.
Strong ability to read, interpret and evaluate legal terms and conditions, assess risks to Janes and ability to negotiate and communicate findings to sales management that is aligned with wider legal team approach.
Ensure the organization’s internal Legal contracts documents/repository are well maintained.
Provide advice and guidance to the different teams relating to contract generation and review.
Assist General Counsel in implementing and manging internal legal process and procedures.
Provide support and advice on new potential businesses opportunities being mindful of legal aspects including intellectual property, data privacy etc.
Supporting compliance screening processes and ensuring company complies with its regulatory requirements and internal policies including due diligence screenings, general compliance investigations etc.
Monitor and manage internal processes to prevent or handle appropriately any actual or likely violations of legal guidelines and internal policies.
Evaluate the efficiency of controls, monitor and improve compliance processes and policies continuously.
Willingness to travel, if required.
Individual with analytical reasoning, problem-solving ability and logical reasoning
Requirements
US qualified attorney or an experienced contracts manager with ability to demonstrate a solid legal interpretation and drafting skills.
Previous altleast 2 years’ experience working with federal/government contracts(SAM.gov) and regulatory compliance experience required.
Willington to work as a part of the global legal function to ensure legal support consistency
Preferable experience working in a fast-paced data licensing business or technology business in one of more of key areas of compliance, regulatory, federal contracting and good understanding of Intellectual Property and data privacy.
Comfortable working as part of a multidimensional Legal team and a team player
Ability to exemplify strong attention to detail and ability to come up with legal improvement processes and policies.
Previous experience working within Legal and compliance team is strongly preferred.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to write contracts, business correspondence with senior management colleagues, and procedures with conformance to the prescribed style and format.
Detail oriented – attention to detail is crucial in this role.
Capable of professionally managing confidential information
Hybrid working with at least 2-3 days based in the office, located in Rosslyn, Virginia.
Preferred qualifications:
JD/ Bachelor’s degree in law, management, contracting or other related field
Certified Commercial Contracts Manager (CCCM), Certified Federal Contracts Manager (CFCM) or Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) credentials are preferred.
2 to 5 years’ Federal contract management experience.
Why work for us
We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.
Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.
Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believes that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this.
We will always consider part time or flexible applications.
Benefits
15 days vacation
9 days flexible time off
12 paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
401k retirement plan with company match and immediate vesting
Hybrid work schedule/flexibility
Company paid life and disability insurance
Healthy Half
Volunteering time
Weekly fresh fruit delivery (we just started this and people are liking it)!
Learning & Development opportunities (GoodHabitz, Mentoring)
Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.
Job purpose
The role of the Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel is established to support Janes business on various legal matters including drafting, negotiating and reviewing variety of legal contractsand arrangements. The role also requires proactively managing existing and new Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (e.g. GSA Schedules, Fedlink etc), agency/ client contracts (including FAR's-DFAR's, blanket agreements, fixed price contracts and task orders) in accordance with corporate goals and objectives. The Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel shall be responsible for working and collaborating with the General Counsel and rest of the legal team to support and advise internal stakeholders on variety of all legal matters within a close knit inhouse legal and compliance function.
Role will be based in the Janes offices in Arlington, VA, and will directly report into the General Counsel (based in the UK) and will be an integral part of the Janes Global Legal and Compliance Team. The role will involve providing day to day assistance and support tothe General Counsel to operate with maximum efficiency when providing legal and compliance related support to the Global Janes colleagues. There will also be an emphasis on assisting with legal & regulatory Compliance and corporate governance matters.
This is an exciting opportunity for a right individual to work in a vibrant Legal and Compliance function supporting a unique business that works with global customers that are Government agencies and defence industry.
How you will contribute at Janes
Draft, review, interpret, advise and negotiate on variety of legal contractual arrangements with global customers including US/Canadian/South Americangovernment customers, commercial companies in the Americas, suppliers etc. as per the Janes Legal playbook/precedence and acceptable standards and policies.
Manage and maintain compliance with Fedlink, GSA and other govt contracting schedules and portals.
Strong ability to read, interpret and evaluate legal terms and conditions, assess risks to Janes and ability to negotiate and communicate findings to sales management that is aligned with wider legal team approach.
Ensure the organization’s internal Legal contracts documents/repository are well maintained.
Provide advice and guidance to the different teams relating to contract generation and review.
Assist General Counsel in implementing and manging internal legal process and procedures.
Provide support and advice on new potential businesses opportunities being mindful of legal aspects including intellectual property, data privacy etc.
Supporting compliance screening processes and ensuring company complies with its regulatory requirements and internal policies including due diligence screenings, general compliance investigations etc.
Monitor and manage internal processes to prevent or handle appropriately any actual or likely violations of legal guidelines and internal policies.
Evaluate the efficiency of controls, monitor and improve compliance processes and policies continuously.
Willingness to travel, if required.
Individual with analytical reasoning, problem-solving ability and logical reasoning
Requirements
US qualified attorney or an experienced contracts manager with ability to demonstrate a solid legal interpretation and drafting skills.
Previous altleast 2 years’ experience working with federal/government contracts(SAM.gov) and regulatory compliance experience required.
Willington to work as a part of the global legal function to ensure legal support consistency
Preferable experience working in a fast-paced data licensing business or technology business in one of more of key areas of compliance, regulatory, federal contracting and good understanding of Intellectual Property and data privacy.
Comfortable working as part of a multidimensional Legal team and a team player
Ability to exemplify strong attention to detail and ability to come up with legal improvement processes and policies.
Previous experience working within Legal and compliance team is strongly preferred.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to write contracts, business correspondence with senior management colleagues, and procedures with conformance to the prescribed style and format.
Detail oriented – attention to detail is crucial in this role.
Capable of professionally managing confidential information
Hybrid working with at least 2-3 days based in the office, located in Rosslyn, Virginia.
Preferred qualifications:
JD/ Bachelor’s degree in law, management, contracting or other related field
Certified Commercial Contracts Manager (CCCM), Certified Federal Contracts Manager (CFCM) or Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) credentials are preferred.
2 to 5 years’ Federal contract management experience.
Why work for us
We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.
Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.
Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believes that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this.
We will always consider part time or flexible applications.
Benefits
15 days vacation
9 days flexible time off
12 paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
401k retirement plan with company match and immediate vesting
Hybrid work schedule/flexibility
Company paid life and disability insurance
Healthy Half
Volunteering time
Weekly fresh fruit delivery (we just started this and people are liking it)!
Learning & Development opportunities (GoodHabitz, Mentoring)
Reference: 203845651
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