Senior Operations Analyst, Legal, Risk & Compliance

• Own and continuously improve the LRC intake, prioritization, and service delivery framework, exercising discretion to determine routing, escalation thresholds, and resolution standards for complex legal and compliance matters.
• Independently research and synthesize nonprofit regulatory requirements and assess operational impact, advising LRC teams on compliance implications and recommended implementation approaches.
• Define and execute contract intake criteria and escalation standards for contract reviews, evaluating efficiency and risk tradeoffs, and develop recommendations to handle high-volume contract needs more efficiently.

This role supports Tides’ mission to advance social justice by ensuring legal, risk, and compliance operations run efficiently, enabling the organization to focus on shifting power to historically marginalized communities.

• At least 5 years of paralegal or legal compliance experience or similar and relevant bachelor’s, preferably in a nonprofit or corporate law environment; or 7 years of relevant experience; paralegal certificate a plus.
• Demonstrated organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to multi-task and reprioritize when required.
• Experience drafting legal or other formal memoranda summarizing laws, requirements and/or policies.
• Familiarity with Salesforce and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Compensation and benefits not specified in the posting.

Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization committed to advancing social justice by working across the social sector to shift power to communities of color and other groups historically denied power.