General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Job Description

Overview

General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Location: Washington, DC
Location type: Remote Eligible - Location subject to manager approval
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer, HealthX Partners Incorporated
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Population Services International (PSI) and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) have co-created a parent company called HealthX Partners Incorporated (HXP), under which they and other health NGOs and businesses can achieve greater impact while delivering efficiencies and greater value for consumers, clients, host governments, stakeholders, and the global health sector. This bold new initiative creates new opportunities for leadership.

HealthX Partners Incorporated (HXP) seeks a General Counsel & Corporate Secretary that will serve as the senior-most legal advisor to HealthX Partners Affiliated Group, reporting directly to the CEO. The role will oversee all legal functions and provide strategic legal counsel across the network of affiliated entities, branch offices, for profit and or nonprofit subsidiaries. The role ensures legal compliance, mitigates risks, and upholds ethical business practices, all while supporting and advancing the goals of the HealthX Partners Affiliated Group. This role acts as corporate secretary and supervises one legal support position.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Provides strategic legal counsel to the HealthX Partners (HXP) executive team and board of directors on new and existing laws affecting business operations. Serves as Corporate Secretary for HXP and its controlled entities, ensuring compliance with corporate governance requirements, overseeing the preparation of board materials, and certifying official corporate actions when required.
• Manages legal representation for all HXP group matters, including developing legal strategies for claims, disputes, investigations, and regulatory actions. Oversee complex litigation, arbitration, and contractual disputes involving HXP or its entities. Manages outside counsel, including international, and arranges pro bono legal services.
• Oversees entity registrations, legal status, and statutory compliance across the HXP group. This includes leading legal aspects of potential mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and other significant collaborations at both the group and entity levels, as needed.
• Provides legal support to the HealthX Partners group (PSI, EGPAF, Viya), including funding agreement negotiations, document review, global data privacy compliance, risk and ethics oversight, HR legal matters, audits, and intellectual property management. Supervises one legal support role assisting cross-functional needs.
• Embody a commitment leading change humanely, with a strong belief in customer centricity, and a growth mindset. Foster the culture and values of HXP and its subsidiaries.
• Less than 10% international travel

This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that an incumbent is expected to perform but is instead a summary of the primary responsibilities and requirements of the job. The incumbent may be asked to perform duties not included above. HealthX Partners Incorporated reserves the right to revise job profiles at any time based on changes to the required job responsibilities.
Qualifications

What You’ll Bring

• Doctorate Degree (or international equivalent): Juris Doctor degree from an ABA-accredited law school
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in labor-employment laws, tax-exempt entities, litigation, mergers/ acquisitions/ spinoffs, corporate structuring, and corporate law.
• Must have a license to practice law in good standing from any state or territory within the US.
• In-depth knowledge of legal landscape and trends related to 501(c)(3) organizations working in International Development, bilateral and multi-lateral donors, international law and offices of Inspector General (USG or Other Donors).
• Proven experience providing legal counsel to a complex network of organizations and understanding of IRS regulations and requirements for supporting organizations preferred.
• Recognized thought leader with proven leadership skills to enhance and identify new directions for global programs, policies, services, and systems.
• Ability to diagnose complex problems, develop effective solutions, communicate compelling strategic courses of action, and build consensus internally and externally with high-level clients, partners, board members, and executive and senior leadership.
• Experience managing, including knowing when to coach, when to advise and when to provide specific direction related to multiple disciplines and functions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure all litigation information and instruction to staff are clear and effectively ensure the desired outcome.
• Excellent analytical, strategic and negotiation skills.
• Able to multi-task and meet deadlines in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
• Fluency in English, French language skills preferred.

We know that a long list of requirements may be discouraging, but don’t let imposter syndrome or the confidence gap get in the way of you applying — we’d love to hear from you.

Salary Range:

HealthX Partners Incorporated is committed to pay equity and transparency. We ensure pay meets the market within each country. This approach minimizes our impact on local talent markets and allows PSI to attract and retain employees, while staying cost-competitive.

Actual base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, experience, internal equity, external market analysis, and other business factors permitted by law. Hiring above the mid-point of the range below would not be typical in order to allow for potential future salary growth.

HealthX Partners Incorporated is offering the following gross annual salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• For the United States (paid in USD): $191,000 (minimum) - $239,000 (midpoint) - $299,000 (maximum)

HealthX Partners Incorporated is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, tribal belonging, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status. HXP is a safe, inclusive workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life, and it’s reflected in our diverse community.

References will be required. The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check. For US based positions: Must be authorized to work in the United States. N.B. HXP will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position.

If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please send an email to: newhiresupport@psi.org or call (202)785-0072.

Note that as a new organization, HXP is using staff resources at its subsidiaries, Population Services International (PSI) and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), to support this recruitment. Applicants can expect to interact with PSI and/or EGPAF systems and staff. 

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About the Organization

About PSI: PSI is a leading global health organization with programs targeting malaria, child survival, HIV and reproductive health. Working in partnership within the public and private sectors, and harnessing the power of the markets, PSI provides life-saving products, clinical services and behavior change communications that empower the world's most vulnerable populations, in over 65 countries to lead healthier lives. Over 150 staff in the Washington D.C headquarters, 100 overseas expatriate staff and almost 8,000 local staff work to execute PSI’s critical and innovative programs worldwide. Health Impact and Donors: PSI has a unique focus on measurable health impact much like successful corporations measure profitability. Measuring the results of PSI’s health interventions isn’t as simple as counting lives saved. PSI employs an entire team of researchers to continuously evaluate PSI performance against evidence-based objectives and verifiable indicators. Such strict measurement of PSI performance is what sets the organization apart from others in the field and feeds into the design of innovative, targeted and cost-effective interventions. By utilizing the DALY (Disability Adjusted Life Year) system, PSI estimates that in 2009 alone, its programs directly prevented more than 156,000 HIV infections, 2.6 million unintended pregnancies, almost 150,000 deaths from malaria and diarrhea and 19 million malaria episodes. In addition, roughly 25,000 patients were treated for TB. With a focus on decentralized management and local experts, innovative programs and successful benchmarking, PSI is proud of its long term commitment to serve those most in need. PSI is supported by several major donors including: governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands; the Global Fund, various United Nations agencies, private foundations, corporations and individuals. Areas of PSI focus: HIV: PSI has HIV programs in over 60 countries around the world. Interventions, which include social marketing of HIV products and services and targeted HIV communications, are based upon a commitment to produce measurable health impact and an emphasis upon rigorous research and evaluation. Although condom social marketing and targeted communications remain the cornerstones of PSI's work to address the HIV pandemic, country programs also implement an increasingly comprehensive range of interventions in response to the changing needs of specific country contexts and populations. PSI is increasingly implementing innovations such as male circumcision services and targeted communications for concurrent sexual partnerships and injection drug use interventions. TB: Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable illness, yet it remains a major cause of death worldwide. It is one of the biggest killers of women of reproductive age and the most common cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS. PSI provides a variety of innovative TB and TB/HIV-related services, engaging private providers in diagnosis and treatment and integrating HIV counseling and testing with TB services. It also creates innovative behavior change communications campaigns to increase awareness of TB and TB/HIV and to promote healthy behaviors. Child Survival: Vulnerable children are one of PSI’s most important target groups. According to the WHO, nearly 10 million children under the age of five die each year – more than 1,000 every hour. Tragically, about two-thirds of child deaths are preventable through practical, low-cost interventions. PSI works to improve child survival by helping developing countries address water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, malaria, pneumonia and HIV with prevention and treatment education and products. PSI’s child survival programs improve the health and save the lives of children under five in more than 30 countries. Reproductive Health: In over 30 countries throughout the world PSI empowers women and couples to lead healthier lives by providing access to innovative family planning and maternal health products and services. Every year, there are more than 60 million unintended pregnancies and more than 500,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes. In 2008 alone, PSI prevented an estimated 3.1 million unintended pregnancies and 15,000 maternal deaths, and enabled millions of couples to plan their families. Over the past three decades, PSI has expanded the contraceptive methods in its portfolio from male condoms and oral contraceptives to include injectable contraceptives, intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUD), emergency contraception pills, implants, female condoms, voluntary sterilization, and fertility awareness methods such as the Standard Days Method using Cyclebeads®. PSI’s RH platform has also grown to address maternal mortality through the prevention of post-partum hemorrhage and sepsis, and the prevention of unsafe abortion. Clean Water: Access to clean water is a challenge in almost all of the countries PSI operates in. Increasing awareness of water borne diseases and accessibility to treated water are a core part of PSI’s efforts across its health areas. PSI and its many partners are working together to promote the Safe Water System, a water quality intervention that employs proven, easy-to-use and inexpensive solutions such as household water treatment appropriate for the developing world. Household water treatment and safe storage ensures that each sip of water is safe to drink. Household water treatment can be adopted quickly, inexpensively, at national scale in both development and emergency situations, making an immediate difference on the lives of those who rely on transporting to and storing water in their homes. Malaria: PSI provides malaria control support to national Ministries of Health in over 30 countries worldwide. PSI tailors its malaria control programs to the unique environment in each country and the needs outlined by the Ministry of Health to achieve the Abuja Targets and MDGs. PSI’s malaria control programs include delivery of insecticide treated mosquito nets, pre-packaged malaria treatment, behavior change communications and operational research.