Legal Operations Associate Jobs in Hackensack, NJ

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund (Everytown) is seeking a dynamic Contracts and Legal Operations Manager to join the Office of the General Counsel Team. The Contracts and Legal Operations Manager will manage the administrative lifecycle of grants, contracts, and charitable registrations for Everytown entities. This role serves as the engine for these portfolios, managing intake, tracking, and process execution, while serving as a bridge between programmatic and infrastructure teams (OGC, Finance, and Financial Operations).

This role will bebased in our NYC office and reports to the Senior Associate General Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel (OGC).

• Manage the administrative lifecycle of contracts and grants, including intake, vetting of prospective vendors and grantees, routing for approvals, signature coordination, and database tracking.
• Oversee the front-line legal and business assessment of all contract requests, including suitability of vendors. Serve as the strategic partner to program staff by proactively resolving issues and exercising professional judgment to determine when matters require escalation to OGC attorneys.
• Draft standard vendor agreements and grant documents, escalating complex legal matters to OGC attorneys.
• Serve as a strategic partner to Field Operations and volunteer networks (e.g., Moms Demand Action). Participate in recurring meetings to ensure early visibility into field activities, partnering with teams to proactively navigate and resolve issues related to permits, event space agreements, and on-the-ground activations.
• Managing the grants and sponsorship portfolio within our grants management system, serving as a strategic partner to the Financial Operations team to ensure seamless and compliant processing.
• Coordinate final execution of contracts and grants, including uploading fully executed agreements to Quickbase and collecting documentation required for subsequent payment release.
• Support OGC attorneys with ongoing updates of organizations’ legal templates (contracts, grants, NDAs). Design and lead organizational training programs and office hours to empower program staff on vendor selection, legal intake processes, and compliance workflows.
• Provide administrative support for the Vendor, Grants, and Contracts portals, partnering with the IT Team to troubleshoot intake systems as needed.
• Support the data privacy portfolio by identifying and escalating data-related issues to OGC attorneys, and executing specific data-vetting processes during vendor reviews.

• Manage the charitable registrations portfolio, acting as the primary internal administrator and liaison to the vendor responsible for state-level filings.
• Coordinate the gathering of required internal financial data, signatures, and organizational documentation to support outside counsel in preparing initial registrations, annual renewals, and compliance reports.
• Maintain a high-level internal tracking system to monitor the status of all solicitation registrations, ensuring outside counsel has the necessary resources to meet all statutory deadlines.

• Serve as the designated backup for the administrative support of the lobbying and electoral compliance portfolio, ensuring continuity of operations when the primary manager is unavailable.
• Monitor registered agent portal(s) to identify and communicate any new issues/filings for OGC attorneys.
• Manage and update the internal trademark tracker, ensuring all application statuses, renewal deadlines, and office actions are accurately recorded.
• Assist OGC attorneys with other administrative aspects of their work, as needed.

• 3+ years of experience in legal administration, paralegal work, or contract management.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong organizational skills, process execution, and high attention to detail.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to multitask, meet deadlines, and work effectively in a high-pressured environment.
• Ability to work effectively with program and other Everytown staff, grantees, partners, vendors, and outside counsel.
• Discretion and ability to handle confidential issues and information.
• Familiarity with DocuSign, Google Suite, Salesforce, GuideStar, IRS website, and Quickbase preferred.

The annual salary range for this role is $85,000 to $105,000 per year, depending on experience. Everytown offers a generous package including medical, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401K Match, Education Assistance and more.

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund ("Everytown for Gun Safety") is the largest gun violence prevention organization in the nation with nearly ten million supporters, including parents, students, survivors, educators, gun owners, and Americans fighting for common sense gun safety. Through victories in Congress, statehouses, corporate America, the courts, and town halls across the country, Everytown is helping change how Americans think about this public health threat. At the core of Everytown is Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement of American mothers founded the day after the Sandy Hook tragedy, and Students Demand Action. Learn more at everytown.org and follow us @Everytown.

You can learn about the framework that guides our work by viewing Everytown's Organizations Values

Everytown for Gun Safety provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Candidates who identify as members of historically underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. A diverse workforce and open culture are at the heart of our organization and vital to our success.