Associate General Counsel, Governance and Legal Operations

2 weeks ago

Old Toronto, Canada OPTrust Full time

Associate General Counsel, Governance and Legal Operations

Department: Legal Services

Type: Permanent

Location: Toronto

Posting Date: October 11, 2024

At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business.

When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Our environment is fast-paced, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community as well.

What OPTrust Offers You

  • Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, and excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Dedicated business strategy for inclusion, diversity and equity with multiple, meaningful opportunities to participate.
  • Flexible, hybrid work model to balance the benefits of working from home and the collaborative teamwork experience in the office.
  • Membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.
  • A purpose-driven environment, including the opportunity to contribute to OPTrust’s climate change and responsible investing programs.
  • Professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, in-house speaker series, tuition reimbursement program and professional association memberships.
  • Comprehensive benefits package focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits.
  • Opportunity to take parental and adoption leaves to spend time with family.
  • Competitive vacation package and time away from work such as work-life balance days.

If you strive for excellence and continuous improvement, value a collaborative and flexible team culture, and approach everything with integrity and respect, then we invite you to apply to join our team

About the Role

OPTrust is looking for an exceptional corporate lawyer to join our Toronto-based Legal Services team.

In this position, you will provide critical advice on a wide range of strategic organizational initiatives, as well as governance and policy matters, to various OPTrust teams, senior management, and the board of trustees.

A motivated self-starter with a team-oriented mindset, you will provide solution-based legal and risk management advice on various enterprise matters. The role involves material responsibility for effecting continuous improvement and innovation in our legal operations and legal processes. Our ideal candidate is therefore passionate about legal operations, knowledge management, and technology and data.

What You’ll Do

  • Advise on complex corporate and commercial issues, and risk management strategies.
  • Support enterprise governance and policy matters closely with the Corporate Secretary.
  • Support technology and innovation enhancements, including assessing and managing generative AI tools from a legal and policy perspective.
  • Advise on information management and data governance, and system implementation and administration.
  • Prepare and monitor the Legal Services division budget, forecasting, and accruals.
  • Develop and report on key operational metrics for the Legal division to better inform decision-making.
  • Optimize and maintain legal technology to build team capacity and increase efficiency.
  • Leverage data resources to provide insights for resource planning and improving workflow.
  • Manage external counsel usage, spending, and relationships.
  • Manage a variety of legal department initiatives as well as cross-organizational projects.

What You Bring

  • LLB/JD.
  • 6-8 years of corporate experience at a top-tier law firm or in-house legal department.
  • Governance and policy, legal operations, and/or technology and data experience an asset.
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills, adaptable and flexible.
  • Motivation to bring about continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Ability and desire to build relationships and work collaboratively with various stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated legal and business judgment.
  • Proven organizational and analytical skills with the ability to project manage critical work to completion.
  • Ability to manage several files at the same time while maintaining high standards.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision and look for opportunities to add value.

Please submit your application via Workday by November 22, 2024.

Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity, and equity in everything we do. If you require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, or have preferred pronouns, please send a message to careers@optrust.com, or discuss your needs with the Recruitment Consultant during the telephone screen. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.

We thank all interested applicants; however, only those under consideration will be contacted.

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