Senior Legal Counsel Full Time

About Maximus Canada
At Maximus Canada, we share an authentic desire to do something meaningful to help others succeed. We apply our deep operational expertise, technology innovation, and digitally enabled citizen engagement in new ways and help governments solve complex problems.
Maximus Canada collaborates with government partners to deliver a variety of citizen services, including healthcare administration, federal and provincial programs, and contact centre services across Canada. We offer eHealth solutions through our Medigent® suite of products, as well as technology consulting and business process services. We leverage our deep operational expertise, technology innovation, and digitally enabled customer engagement to deliver fast solutions. Today, we proudly support many federal, provincial and municipal programs across the country powered by Canadians.
Globally, Maximus has operations in the US, India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
Our mission is to affect fundamental change in the lives of every individual with whom we engage and at every touchpoint. But ultimately, what we do is improve people’s lives. And that is a testament to the ingenuity, commitment, and compassion everyone brings to their role at Maximus Canada and their dedication to connecting citizens with the services they need from Government agencies.
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Position Summary
The Senior Counsel position acts as in-house contracting counsel for Maximus Canada., Reporting to the Managing Director and Country Leader, the Senior Counsel is responsible for providing timely and reliable contract review and legal advice that is in line with our global and local governance.

Your typical week at Maximus
Legal Counsel
• Supporting multiple Enterprise Revenue / Sales teams
• Document / Contract review at tender call, bid submission and after contract award
• Oversee Corporate Compliance
• Counsels the Company in the protection of its assets and its people.
• Prepares legal correspondences
• Consults external counsel as appropriate or as directed

Contract Management
• Reviews and negotiates prime contracts, amendments, change orders, subcontracts, teaming agreements, nondisclosure agreements and vendor agreements. Ensure contractual agreement negotiations on terms and conditions that are in the best interest of the company and its client.
• Serves as the main facilitator for the legal terms in contract negotiations, recommendations, record keeping, monitoring, change management, and more
• Provide guidance and direction to leadership by reviewing all change notices and amendments to contracts affecting the period of performance, funding, cost or changes to technical specifications and ensuring proper risk evaluation and mitigation.
• Reviews and analyzes bid requests to determine corporate risk and propose appropriate risk mitigation.
• Represents contracts function at meetings with leadership and staff of supported business units
• Implement contract policies, procedures, and other business and contractual or compliance matters affecting the business unit.
• Lead Contract Management Coordination across the organization to ensure our contractual obligations are met and documented in a database in concert with the P/L owners
• Keep everything organized and documented and maintain a database of all active and past contracts so contract management is a smooth, streamlined process.

Contract Policy and compliance
• Ensures compliance with all company policies for contract approval/execution
• Ensures compliance with company policy on acceptable contract terms and conditions
• Manage related policies for the company, ensuring compliance with legislation, regulations and company directives
• Recommend policy changes and establish procedures that affect Canadian organization(s).
• Implement effective processes, procedures and tools and ensure compliance.

Other leadership functions
• Manage the contract and legal department and staff in the country with responsibility for results, including costs, methods and staffing
• Prepares and conducts executive-level briefings.
• Work on issues of diverse scope where analyzing a situation or data requires evaluating a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
• Other responsibilities as may be assigned by the Managing Director and Country Leader

What you offer us
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
• Team player; works well with colleagues/builds positive working relationships
• Customer Focus
• Familiarity with intellectual property principles, outsourcing, consulting and IT systems contracts
• Business Partnership Approach – enabler approach
• Strong verbal and writing skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong work ethic
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to manage a high volume of work in a demanding, fast-paced environment

Education and Experience
• Licensed to practice law and Member in good standing of a provincial law society in BC or Ontario
• 5+ years experience working as in-house counsel with a medium to large size private organization
• 5+ years’ experience in corporate and commercial law and an ability to work independently
• 3+ years experience in Government contracting (inside the government or as a service provider)
• Proven Leadership experience and experience of managing small teams

Other
• Must hold or be eligible for a Government of Canada security clearance.
What we offer you
We value your work, which enables us to continuously raise the bar on how we can best serve citizens worldwide. Maximus Canada offers the following:

• Competitive market-based salaries
• Comprehensive employer-paid benefits
• Generous paid time off package
• Group Retirement Savings Plan
• Hybrid and remote work environments in Canada
• Annual paid bonus based on overall company performance
• Employee appreciation events

Maximus is passionate about our employees and place their well-being at the center of our people strategy. We are committed and proud to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value diversity, equity and inclusion and invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations and gender identities recognizing that this is paramount for the growth and success of our organization.

Maximus Global Core Values
• Accountability – Accepting responsibility to solve problems and rise to each challenge
• Collaboration – Partnering to instill trust and working as one
• Compassion – Empowering humanity by applying empathy and insight to every interaction
• Customer Focus – Cultivating an authentic desire to help others succeed
• Innovation – Embracing change and championing new ways forward
• Respect – Valuing the work we do, who we do it with, and the people we serve