Legal Operations Analyst

at  AARP

Overview:
AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to the more than 100 million Americans 50-plus and their families: health and financial security, and personal fulfillment. AARP also works for individuals in the marketplace by sparking new solutions and allowing carefully chosen, high-quality products and services to carry the AARP name. As a trusted source for news and information, AARP produces the nation’s largest-circulation publications, AARP The Magazine and the AARP Bulletin.
All members of AARP’s OGC advise business units and affiliated entities to serve the goals and mission of the organization in a manner that is compliant, ethical, solution-oriented and timely; consult and collaborate with management to develop strategic plans and ensure organizational activities meet legal and regulatory compliance; and work collaboratively to accomplish organization goals and execute on organization mission.
The Legal Operations Analyst supports the development of long-term goals and strategic plans to ensure continued successful operations of the business unit’s legal department by providing programmatic and operational support to all functional areas of the legal team.

Responsibilities:

• Plans, organizes, and implements assigned projects in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Supports business unit legal operations to include ongoing projects to enhance team’s efficiency.
• Directs operation of case management system managing enterprise-wide client requests for a variety of legal services including contract review, content review, litigation support, advocacy support, general legal advice and other issues.
• Supports implementation of key aspects of the legal team including training and communications, data reporting, Board reporting and/or investigations support.
• Completes internal operations projects through strategic problem solving, data gathering, root cause analysis, recommendations, and implementation considerations.
• Collaborates with diverse teams within the Business Unit’s Legal Department to document and create process flowcharts, standard operating procedures and best practices while supporting the identification of inefficiencies and opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce risk and optimize resource allocation.
• Collaborate with legal colleagues to ensure smooth deployment, integration, and user adoption of technology solutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 3 years of experience working in a legal operations environment.
• Proven ability to efficiently work with multiple legal technical software and platforms.
• Experience overseeing projects that vary across multiple teams.
• High sense of ethics and confidentiality.

AARP will not sponsor an employment visa for this position at this time.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Regular and reliable job attendance
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships
• Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions
• In office/open office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate noise

• Plans, organizes, and implements assigned projects in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Supports business unit legal operations to include ongoing projects to enhance team’s efficiency.
• Directs operation of case management system managing enterprise-wide client requests for a variety of legal services including contract review, content review, litigation support, advocacy support, general legal advice and other issues.
• Supports implementation of key aspects of the legal team including training and communications, data reporting, Board reporting and/or investigations support.
• Completes internal operations projects through strategic problem solving, data gathering, root cause analysis, recommendations, and implementation considerations.
• Collaborates with diverse teams within the Business Unit’s Legal Department to document and create process flowcharts, standard operating procedures and best practices while supporting the identification of inefficiencies and opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce risk and optimize resource allocation.
• Collaborate with legal colleagues to ensure smooth deployment, integration, and user adoption of technology solutions