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About the Role
SickKids Foundation is seeking a Manager, Legal & Risk Management for an 18-month contract to play a key role in the organization's legal operations and enterprise risk management framework. This role drives legal, operational, and project management activities, supports the enterprise risk management program, and optimizes legal and risk processes.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and revise standard-form agreements, correspondence, and memorandums in collaboration with Legal Counsel.
- Own and optimize legal intake, triage, and tracking processes.
- Drive the development and continuous improvement of legal templates, playbooks, and internal guidance materials.
- Identify and implement opportunities to modernize legal workflows, tools, and systems.
- Conduct research, analyze information, and prepare briefing notes, memoranda, presentations, and communications.
- Manage administrative functions for the Legal department, including filing systems, document management, invoice and expense payments, and calendar coordination.
- Collaborate with various Foundation teams to deliver successful legal services.
- Support the execution and enhancement of the Foundation’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program.
- Drive the development, maintenance, and evolution of the Foundation’s risk register.
- Lead the preparation of Risk Management Committee materials.
- Prepare risk presentations, risk reports, and dashboards for the Senior Management Team and Board Committees.
- Proactively identify emerging risks, assess impacts, and implement mitigation strategies.
- Liaise and advise senior leadership on risk deliverables and problem-solving.
- Champion continuous improvement of risk frameworks, governance practices, and reporting processes.
- Provide project management expertise for cross-functional initiatives.
- Lead the tracking and monitoring of project deliverables.
- Drive structured decision-making, problem-solving, and issue resolution.
- Engage project stakeholders and communicate project updates.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of progressive experience in legal operations or a related field.
- Experience drafting and reviewing agreements and managing contract lifecycle processes.
- Proven ability to drive initiatives, influence stakeholders, and operate with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
- High level of discretion and professionalism when handling sensitive information.
Skills
- Legal operations
- Enterprise risk management
- Project management
- Drafting and reviewing agreements
- Contract lifecycle management
- Legal intake, triage, and tracking
- Legal templates and playbooks
- Risk register development and maintenance
- Risk presentations and reporting
- Risk mitigation strategies
- Stakeholder engagement
- Problem-solving
- Computer literacy (intermediate to advanced)
- MS Visio (asset)
- Written and verbal communication
- Presentation skills
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Post-secondary education related to law, or a related discipline
- Law clerk designation (asset)
- Risk management designation (asset)
- PMP (asset)
Salary/Compensations
- $82,064 - $102,582
- Maximum of $117,970 with demonstrated experience and proficiency
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit package
- Flex benefit plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible work arrangements
About the Company
- SickKids Foundation is Canada's largest charitable funder of child health research, learning and care, raising over $200 million last year.
- As a national charity, SickKids Foundation invests in national and international initiatives to benefit children in Canada and around the world.
- The Foundation is the fundraising partner to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and supports Precision Child Health (PCH).
- Core values include integrity, collaboration, excellence, innovation, and inclusion.
- Goals include delivering a superior donor experience, investing in people and culture, driving innovative fundraising, and disrupting the market through data and technology.
- Committed to an inclusive culture by embedding equity, diversity and inclusion in policies, practices, and behaviours.
- Aims to build awareness and skills in EDI internally and with partners.
- Committed to creating a safe, positive work environment.
Equal Opportunity
- SickKids Foundation is committed to its people and the talents, capabilities, and perspectives they bring to our mission.
- We uphold our commitment by inviting and encouraging individuals from diverse lived experiences from Black, Indigenous, communities of colour, people with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community and all candidates who may contribute to the further diversification of the Foundation’s community.
- Candidates who require accommodation during the recruitment process should contact the People & Culture team.