Deputy General Counsel

Responsibilities / What You'll Do

• Provide broad in-house legal counsel across the organization to enable programmatic and operational effectiveness while ensuring compliance with applicable legal and regulatory frameworks
• Serve as a legal advisor to GFI employees on a broad range of legal matters, serving as the primary point of contact and primary lead for many day-to-day legal inquiries
• Oversee the full contract lifecycle for GFI's U.S.-based teams, including intake, prioritization, drafting, review, negotiation, and risk assessment
• Draft, review, and revise policies, legal memoranda, and formal correspondence to support consistent, efficient, and compliant organizational practices

This role creates positive change by providing expert legal guidance that enables The Good Food Institute to advance alternative proteins as an essential solution to meet the world's climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals.

Required qualifications:

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school and admission to the bar (in good standing) in at least one U.S. state
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant legal experience, with prior in-house or nonprofit counsel experience strongly preferred
• Demonstrated expertise in nonprofit compliance and risk mitigation, especially in the context of international and multistate operations
• Demonstrated expertise in contract drafting, negotiation, and management best practices

Benefits include: working from home; paid employee base medical coverage; dental, vision, and other medical insurance options; a 401(k) plan with employer match; 17 paid holidays; personal, sick, and vacation time; paid family/parental and medical leave; lifestyle spending account; opportunity for advancement; and respectful and collaborative culture.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals by advancing plant-based, fermentation-enabled, and cultivated meat as alternative protein solutions.