Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs
About The Position
Children's Home Society of Florida (CHS) is seeking an exceptional legal executive to serve as its Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs. This role is crucial in protecting childhood and advancing the organization's mission of creating brighter futures for children and families across Florida. The position involves overseeing legal strategy for one of Florida's largest nonprofit organizations, advising executive leadership, negotiating complex agreements, guiding enterprise risk, protecting organizational integrity, influencing strategic decisions, and supporting innovation. The ideal candidate will think like a business executive, view contracts as strategic partnerships, simplify complex legal issues, be energized by negotiation, balance innovation with risk management, build trust quickly, and aim to leave the organization stronger than they found it. This role influences every department, community, partnership, and child served by CHS.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
- Active member in good standing with The Florida Bar
- 5+ years of progressive in-house or corporate legal leadership
- Extensive experience drafting and negotiating sophisticated contracts and agreements
- Experience advising executive leadership
- Experience managing outside counsel and/or legal operations
Nice To Haves
- Experience in nonprofit organizations
- Experience in Healthcare or human services
- Experience in Government contracting
- Experience with Technology agreements
- Experience with Enterprise contract management systems
- Experience with Leasing and real estate transactions
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership.
- Oversee the legal strategy for one of Florida's largest nonprofit organizations.
- Negotiate complex, high-value agreements.
- Guide enterprise risk.
- Protect organizational integrity.
- Influence strategic decisions.
- Support innovation.
- Ensure every legal decision advances the mission of creating brighter futures for children and families.
- Reviewing and negotiating government, nonprofit and vendor contracts and agreements.
- Overseeing and administering the contract lifecycle management system and contracting process.
- Partnering on strategic business initiatives, with significant emphasis on policy and practice development and enterprise risk management.
- Serve as the Chief Legal Officer's trusted partner, stepping into executive leadership responsibilities whenever needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
