Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs

About the role

GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by The Economist , NPR , TED , and The Washington Post . We are one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026. We’re now preparing to deliver billions of dollars a year to people in extreme poverty, if funding allows. Read our CEO’s essay on what that will take. Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-

Requirements

• Serve as a primary legal partner to Partnerships and Fundraising, People, Finance, Communications, Technology, Product, Grants Management, and public affairs teams.
• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex corporate partnerships, funding arrangements, technology and vendor agreements, and other strategic transactions.
• Advise on corporate, commercial, employment, privacy, nonprofit, and operational matters arising within the teams you support.
• Partner with teams early to understand their objectives, develop workable structures, and provide practical advice on legal and business risk.
• Build templates, playbooks, and repeatable approaches that allow GiveDirectly to handle recurring work more consistently as the organization grows.
• Advise on the structure, acceptance, and administration of significant or non-standard gifts, including bequests and other planned gifts, donor-advised fund grants, restricted gifts, securities, crypt
• Draft and review gift agreements, donor restrictions, planned-giving documentation, and other funding arrangements, coordinating with tax or trusts-and-estates counsel where needed.
• Advise on charitable solicitation, fundraising disclosures, sponsorships, cause-marketing arrangements, commercial co-ventures, and related nonprofit regulatory requirements.