Manager Legal, Risk & Compliance

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Law, Public Policy, Business, or related field (JD, MPA, MBA, or equivalent) strongly preferred. Equivalent professional experience in legal, compliance, or risk governance will also be considered.
  
• Experience: 3–5 years of relevant work experience in risk management, internal controls, audit, compliance, or governance functions.
  
• Experience working in nonprofit, donor-funded, or international organizations strongly preferred.
  
• Strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and documentation skills.
  
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, early-stage, or cross-functional environments.
  
• Experience with insurance tracking, internal audits, or policy control environments is a plus.
  
• Language requirement: English (required).
  

Strengthen and formalize GiveDirectly’s enterprise risk and controls framework

• Build on prior Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) efforts to create a consistent, ERM organization-wide framework, refining existing tools and approaches into a cohesive system.
  
• Develop and maintain an organizational risk register that consolidates risks across functions, assigns clear owners, and tracks mitigation progress.
  
• Create and document a controls library in collaboration with IA, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and Operations – mapping key controls to risks and owners.
  
• Coordinate quarterly risk review cycles with leadership, surfacing key trends, mitigation updates, and emerging priorities.
  
• Partner with Internal Audit to align on control documentation, audit planning, and remediation tracking.
  

Integrate risk management into GiveDirectly’s legal and compliance systems

• Embed risk thinking into policy lifecycle management, compliance training, and contract governance.
  
• Work closely with the Director and Associate Legal Counsel to ensure the ERM framework reflects relevant regulatory and contractual obligations.
  
• Collaborate with Compliance to ensure ethical, anti-fraud, and privacy-related risks are effectively managed and tracked.
  
• Contribute to the development and rollout of compliance reporting tools and templates for staff and leadership.
  

Support ongoing Legal, Risk, and Compliance operations

• Maintain the risk register and control documentation as living tools – updating quarterly and integrating with departmental workflows.
  
• Prepare risk and compliance summaries for senior leadership
  
• Provide project-based support to Legal and Compliance teams on initiatives such as policy rollouts, contracting, governance documentation, and vendor compliance.
  
• Promote a culture of learning and accountability – helping teams view risk management as an enabler of effective, ethical delivery rather than a compliance burden.
  

Strengthen governance and cross-functional alignment

• Serve as a point of coordination between Legal & Compliance, Internal Audit, and Operations on governance and control matters.
  
• Facilitate consistent communication on risk themes and findings across teams.
  
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of Legal & Compliance systems that underpin organizational accountability, transparency, and recipient trust.