General Counsel
- Organization
- Root Capital
- Location
- Remote
- Job Type
- Full-time
- Deadline for Applications
- 06/30/2023
- How to Apply
- https://rootcapital.org/careers/general-counsel/
- Where to Apply
- https://rootcapital.org/careers/general-counsel/
- Tags
- Full-time
Reports To: President/Chief Operating Officer Job Type: Full time; US-based; Remote Region: United States Location: US-based; Remote Start Date: Immediately Contact: Please apply using the company site. Salary: $190-220k/yearAbout Root Capital Root Capital (Root) is a Non-Bank Financial Institution (NBFI) founded in 1999 as an NGO with a mission to support the growth of agricultural enterprises so they can transform rural communities. Root’s clients, ranging from farmer cooperatives and associations to local processors and millers, purchase crops such as coffee, cocoa, nuts, or grains from smallholder farmers and in most cases export those crops to global markets. Root supplies these traditionally under-served businesses with vital resources: access to capital and trade and technical partners, financial, management and other forms of capacity building training, and advice and support to enhance bankability, gender equity and opportunity, climate resilience, and youth employment. Root works in hard-to-serve geographies where others don’t go and serves clients whom the local financial institutions are reluctant to support. To date, Root has loaned over $1.8 billion to improve the lives of over ten million people in farming communities.Root has been a widely recognized pioneer in areas like bankability, access to finance, and gender equity, and is building on this success to enhance its focus on climate resilience and youth employment. Root takes pride in its rigorous monitoring and evaluation of projects, in learning from its experience, and in proactively seeking the input of its clients and counterparts to remain “global enough to matter, regional enough to act” with agility and creativity. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Root currently works in over fifteen countries in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, and has associated offices in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Senegal, and Kenya. Root’s global staff is 145 and growing rapidly to address our ambitious five-year strategy to both broaden and deepen our reach in our target agricultural communities. Position Description The Opportunity Bring extensive experience in financial legal practice, ideally in SME lending and international operations (especially in Latin America and/or Africa). The successful candidate will have extensive experience with lending operations, underwriting, intercreditor arrangements, and related financial matters, and will appreciate the challenges of working with local staff and SME clients in foreign jurisdictions to provide high quality, quick turn-around legal advice. Root’s primary financial product is trade finance, but we are expanding into other products to meet the needs of our clients. Although we expect to hire a Senior Counsel for Latin America, the GC will not have extensive legal staff and is the primary point of contact for all legal services. However, Root maintains strong relationships with well-known and highly regarded external counsel, some working pro bono and others retained for specific purposes. Experience with supporting staff and clients with varying degrees of legal understanding and the ability to interpret complex issues in ways which facilitate problem solving is critical. Applications U.S applicants: Root Capital Inc. participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government your I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information, see here. Learn more about your right to work. Root Capital provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, active military or veteran status, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, medical conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth, and breastfeeding and expressing breast milk), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Root Capital is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that upholds our leadership principles of empowerment, equity, integrity, service, and transparency. |