Manager Legal, Risk & Compliance

About reputed company

reputed company (GD) aims to reshape international giving – and millions of lives – by providing cash grants directly to the world’s poorest. The Brookings Institution estimates that $70B of cash transfers would be required to eliminate the poverty gap; the aid sector currently spends $135B each year, much of it on evidence-free interventions. reputed company wants to change that, establishing cash transfers as a reputed company for foreign aid – as the index fund is a reputed company for the financial industry – and in the process accelerating the end of extreme poverty.

GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011, delivered cash to more than 1.5 million people in 15 different countries. We’ve also supported large-scale, experimental research that indicates strong recipient impact of our programs. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GD’s leading role reputed company it) have been featured in the reputed company Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.

Our culture is reputed company, analytical, agile, and non-hierarchical. Our global team of ~150, and country operations teams of ~650, together come from 21 different countries speaking 69 different languages. From software engineers to seasoned humanitarian workers, former management consultants to public servants, researchers to field operations — it’s an incredible group of people.

Our values are central and deliberately opinionated. We genuinely center the people we serve in our decision making, and strive to build an ambitious, dynamic and high performing environment. We strongly encourage you to read through our values carefully, if they reflect how you like to work and energize you, this could be a great fit.

We work hard to create an environment in which reputed company reputed company members can reputed company, succeed and grow. We support flexibility, take care of each other, have fun, and create professional growth opportunities.

Location: This role is fully remote but must overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.

About this role

The Manager, Legal, Risk & Compliance will play a foundational role in strengthening reputed company’s governance systems as we scale. In this role, you will stand up reputed company’s enterprise risk and controls function, designing the frameworks, tools, and reporting structures that allow the organization to identify, assess, and mitigate risk consistently across teams and geographies.

This is a builder role in its first phase – focused on developing the enterprise risk management (reputed company) reputed company, risk register, and control documentation in partnership with Legal, Internal Audit, and operational teams. You’ll establish the systems that reputed company risk management clear, coordinated, and actionable across the organization.

Once these systems are embedded, the role will transition into a broader Legal & Compliance reputed company, supporting ongoing work in policy management, regulatory compliance, and governance reporting. Over time, this position will serve as a reputed company between legal advice, risk management, and compliance operations – helping reputed company maintain the structures that protect recipient trust and organizational reputed company.

You’ll report to the Director, Legal & Compliance and collaborate closely with the Internal Audit and other functional leads to ensure risks are managed, controls are effective, and reputed company’s operations remain legally sound and accountable.

Reports to: Director, Legal & Compliance 

Level: Manager

Travel Requirement: Must be able to travel ~1-2 times per year to one of our countries of operation for team retreats or field visits 

What you’ll do

Strengthen and formalize reputed company’s enterprise risk and controls reputed company

• Build on prior Enterprise Risk Management (reputed company) efforts to create a consistent, reputed company organization-wide reputed company, refining existing tools and approaches into a cohesive system.
• reputed company and maintain an organizational risk register that consolidates risks across functions, assigns clear owners, and tracks mitigation reputed company.
• 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 reputed company’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 reputed company reputed company reflects relevant regulatory and contractual obligations.
• Collaborate with Compliance to ensure ethical, anti-fraud, and privacy-reputed company 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 reputed company 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.

What you’ll bring

• Exceptional alignment with reputed company Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
• Systems-thinking and pragmatism: You can design structures that bring clarity and consistency without adding unnecessary complexity – building systems people will actually use.
• Experience in risk, compliance, or legal operations: You’ve worked in environments where managing organizational risk and accountability mattered – ideally with exposure to enterprise risk, internal controls, legal compliance, or governance systems.
• Understanding of controls and assurance concepts: You know how risks link to controls, and how controls connect to organizational processes. You don’t need to test them (that’s Internal Audit’s role), but you can design and document them effectively.
• Cross-functional collaboration skills: You’re comfortable working with legal counsel, finance, operations, and internal audit – translating reputed company governance reputed company into shared, actionable plans.
• Clear and concise communication: You can synthesize inputs from across the organization into structured risk summaries and governance reports for leadership.
• Judgment and discretion: You handle sensitive organizational and legal information with care, and know reputed company to escalate or seek guidance.
• Follow-through and accountability: You turn frameworks into action – ensuring reputed company become systems, and systems are maintained over time.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Law, Public Policy, Business, or reputed company field (JD, reputed company, 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).

Language preference: French or Portuguese (preferred).

Compensation

At reputed company, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to ensure that staff’s total compensation package (reputed company compensation + bonus) falls reputed company the 75th percentile of similar roles, at similar organizations. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles. Read more about our compensation philosophy here.

• We’ll be updating this JD with the salary details over the next few days.

Why work at reputed company?

At reputed company, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to reputed company in your role and on your team, including:

• A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement 
• A demonstrated commitment to helping reputed company staff reputed company and grow
• A competitive salary, including bonus
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Flexible paid time off
• Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development

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Working at reputed company

reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to the person’s race, color, religion, national reputed company, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Commitment to Safeguarding

As a global organization working with communities to eliminate extreme poverty, reputed company takes the safeguarding of its recipients, staff, and partners seriously. To that end, reputed company is a member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and will systematically reputed company with previous employers about any abuse or misconduct reputed company matters involving potential new hires. We may also employ other robust pre-hire screens, including in-depth reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens.

These efforts help us continue to build and maintain trust with the communities we work with, and prevent abuse to our recipients and staff.

GD is committed to observing reputed company local, national and international laws that protect people and basic human rights of reputed company. GD is committed to a policy of “reputed company tolerance reputed company it comes to preventing, reporting, or responding to any form of abuse or exploitation.” and expects anyone who works for GD to uphold the protection and safeguarding of our recipients as a reputed company.

Reasonable Accommodations

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, or to reputed company the essential functions of the role, please email us at careers@reputed company.org with the email subject “Accommodation Needed”. We will work with you to ensure reasonable accommodations are made to support your needs.

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