General Counsel

• Serve as the principal legal advisor to the CEO, providing strategic counsel on legal, governance, organizational, operational, advocacy, and institutional development matters.
• Translate complex legal issues into practical, strategic guidance for non-legal colleagues.
• Advise on legal, operational, political, and reputational risks affecting organizational decision-making.
• Coordinate and oversee outside legal counsel across the multiple jurisdictions where Fos Feminista operates.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with outside legal counsel, including pro bono law firms and specialized legal experts across multiple jurisdictions.
• Support the CEO and leadership to ensure legal considerations support long-term organizational strategy and institutional resilience.
• Advise on organizational initiatives and implementation.
• Provide legal guidance on matters relating to organizational sustainability, financial resilience, and long-term institutional development.
• Monitor geopolitical and regulatory developments affecting Fòs Feminista's global work.
• Maintain and regularly update an organizational risk register to document risks.
• Support executive decision-making by integrating legal analysis with organizational, political, and operational considerations.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements across the United States, hiring locations, and other jurisdictions.
• Oversee contracts, grant agreements, procurement, intellectual property, employment matters, privacy, and corporate compliance.
• Advise on nonprofit regulations, charitable solicitation, lobbying restrictions, advocacy activities, and tax-exempt requirements.
• Provide legal oversight and advice for maintaining compliance obligations and appropriate separations for operating both the 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities.
• Design and strengthen institutional policies, employment practices, and compliance systems, reviewing to ensure compliance in alignment with risk management that promote accountability while enabling innovation.
• Support governance processes across Fòs Feminista's constellation of affiliated organizations and legal entities, including oversight to ensure all annual filings/requirements are met.
• Support the maintenance and development of bylaws, governance policies, corporate records, and governance frameworks.
• Provide legal guidance across Fòs Feminista's constellation of affiliated organizations, subsidiaries, partnerships, and collaborative initiatives.

Director – Legal Affairs

Director

• Play a key role in developing and implementing an integrated philanthropy strategy spanning institutional funders, family foundations, donor collaboratives, and major individual donors.
• Partner with the Philanthropy Lead, Senior Philanthropy Advisor, and CEO to develop cultivation and solicitation strategies for Fòs Feminista's highest-value donors and prospects.
• Analyze trends across philanthropy, bilateral aid, and private wealth to identify emerging opportunities and adapt fundraising strategies accordingly.
• Personally manage a portfolio of many of Fòs Feminista's highest-capacity philanthropic relationships.
• Develop sophisticated engagement plans for donors that leverage senior leadership, board members, alliance partners, and allies.

Director of Philanthropy

• Lead Fòs Feminista’s policy research and evidence agenda
• Oversee the development and execution of multi-year and annual research priorities
• Support collaboration with Alliance partners to develop transnational technical and policy research
• Research, write, analyse, and support the supervision of Fòs Feminista research outputs
• Lead the dissemination of advocacy knowledge and evidence through various platforms
• Provide technical input into the creation of knowledge products
• Maintain and curate a centralized database of policy research resources
• Coordinate the tracking and reporting on the reach and impact of Fòs Feminista’s policy research
• Serve as the focal point for the Centre for Evidence-Based Advocacy
• Support program strategic development aligned with advocacy goals
• Supervise and provide strategic guidance to advocacy teams
• Support donor relationship management and strategic engagement

FOS

Director – Legal Affairs

Director of Philanthropy

Associate Director – Global Advocacy, Policy Research