Corporate Counsel/Legal Counsel

Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.

Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.

Job purpose

The role of the Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel is established to support Janes business on various legal matters including drafting, negotiating and reviewing variety of legal contractsand arrangements. The role also requires proactively managing existing and new Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (e.g. GSA Schedules, Fedlink etc), agency/ client contracts (including FAR's-DFAR's, blanket agreements, fixed price contracts and task orders) in accordance with corporate goals and objectives. The Corporate Counsel/ Legal Counsel shall be responsible for working and collaborating with the General Counsel and rest of the legal team to support and advise internal stakeholders on variety of all legal matters within a close knit inhouse legal and compliance function.

Role will be based in the Janes offices in Arlington, VA, and will directly report into the General Counsel (based in the UK) and will be an integral part of the Janes Global Legal and Compliance Team. The role will involve providing day to day assistance and support tothe General Counsel to operate with maximum efficiency when providing legal and compliance related support to the Global Janes colleagues. There will also be an emphasis on assisting with legal & regulatory Compliance and corporate governance matters.

This is an exciting opportunity for a right individual to work in a vibrant Legal and Compliance function supporting a unique business that works with global customers that are  Government agencies and defence industry.  

How you will contribute at Janes

• Draft, review, interpret, advise and negotiate on variety of legal contractual arrangements with global customers including US/Canadian/South Americangovernment customers, commercial companies in the Americas, suppliers etc. as per the Janes Legal playbook/precedence and acceptable standards and policies.
• Manage and maintain compliance with Fedlink, GSA and other govt contracting schedules and portals.
• Strong ability to read, interpret and evaluate legal terms and conditions, assess risks to Janes and ability to negotiate and communicate findings to sales management that is aligned with wider legal team approach.
• Ensure the organization’s internal Legal contracts documents/repository are well maintained.
• Provide advice and guidance to the different teams relating to contract generation and review.
• Assist General Counsel in implementing and manging internal legal process and procedures. 
• Provide support and advice on new potential businesses opportunities being mindful of legal aspects including intellectual property, data privacy etc.
• Supporting compliance screening processes and ensuring company complies with its regulatory requirements and internal policies including due diligence screenings, general compliance investigations etc.
• Monitor and manage internal processes to prevent or handle appropriately any  actual or likely violations of legal guidelines and internal policies.
• Evaluate the efficiency of controls, monitor and improve compliance processes and policies continuously.
• Willingness to travel, if required.
• Individual with analytical reasoning, problem-solving ability and logical reasoning

Requirements

• US qualified attorney or an experienced contracts manager with ability to demonstrate a solid legal interpretation and drafting skills. 
• Previous altleast 2 years’ experience working with federal/government contracts(SAM.gov) and regulatory compliance experience required.
• Willington to work as a part of the global legal function to ensure legal support consistency 
• Preferable experience working in a fast-paced data licensing business or technology business in one of more of key areas of compliance, regulatory, federal contracting and good understanding of Intellectual Property and data privacy.
• Comfortable working as part of a multidimensional Legal team and a team player
• Ability to exemplify strong attention to detail and ability to come up with legal improvement proce