General Counsel

• Serve as chief legal advisor and member of the Executive Leadership Team, integrating legal considerations into organizational strategy, governance, and risk management.
• Lead legal strategy across ROC USA and its subsidiaries, including lending, capital formation, corporate structuring, regulatory compliance, and strategic growth initiatives.
• Oversee real estate lending legal infrastructure, including reviewing loan documents, participation agreements, and compliance systems, and bring loan closings in-house to reduce costs.
• Manage outside counsel relationships, evaluate which legal functions to insource, and supervise a paralegal.

This role ensures that manufactured home communities can be preserved as affordable resident-owned cooperatives, protecting low-income households from displacement and wealth-stripping while enabling community ownership and long-term affordability.

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Minimum of 10 years of legal experience with substantial experience in commercial real estate finance, community development lending, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience exercising independent legal judgment in a senior or leadership capacity, and assessing when outside counsel is appropriate.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate legal analysis for non-lawyer colleagues; comfort operating in a lean, mission-driven organization.

Annual salary range of $200,000 – $240,000, commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits package included.

ROC USA is a nonprofit CDFI that supports residents of manufactured home communities to collectively purchase their communities and govern them as cooperatives, preserving affordable homeownership across the United States.