General Counsel

• Serve as primary legal advisor, providing analysis and guidance to the Board, Executive Director, and staff on legal risks and compliance.
• Oversee legal review of contracts, public communications, campaign plans, and HR matters.
• Develop and implement organizational policies, systems, and training to ensure legal compliance and risk mitigation.
• Manage outside counsel relationships and ensure adherence to legal practice rules.

This role ensures PowerSwitch Action can operate boldly and safely, advancing multiracial feminist democracy and challenging corporate power, while protecting the organization's legal integrity and sustainability.

• Seasoned attorney with expertise in nonprofit/tax-exempt law, employment, contract, intellectual property, and laws governing organizing and public actions.
• Excellent judgment, communication, and relationship-building skills; able to synthesize complex legal issues for non-lawyers.
• Strategic thinker with experience in movement work, campaigning, and organizing.
• Authorization to practice law in California strongly preferred; exceptional candidates from other jurisdictions considered.

Full-time, exempt position; salary range $135,000–$150,000 (based on experience). Benefits include: 401(k) with 5% employer contribution; 100% health, dental, and vision premiums for employee and family; life and long-term disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; 12 days vacation (increasing to 20), 12 sick days; 6-week sabbatical after 5 years; $2,000 flat annual raise.

PowerSwitch Action is a national network organizing to build multiracial feminist democracies in cities and regions, driving an agenda to bring public investments under community oversight and challenge corporate extraction.