Legal Project Manager (Hybrid)

at  Fannie Mae

Company Description
At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of an inclusive team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.
Job Description
As a valued colleague on our Consumer Law and Strategy team, you will use your expert knowledge to provide overall direction with strategic latitude. In this role, you will guide the team in planning, directing, or coordinating business unit operational activities with the support of your team and management.

MINIMUM REQUIRED EXPERIENCES

• 4 years related experience
• Experience performing legal research
• Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion in a legal environment
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience with reporting, metrics, and visualization tools, including Smartsheet, Tableau, and Visio
• Experience with Power Platform tools such as Power BI, PowerApps, and Flow
• Experience using SharePoint

DESIRED EXPERIENCES

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Prior experience documenting standard work, processes, practices, and procedures
• Demonstrated experience with process improvement and ability to identify and recommend improvements to processes and control environments to drive efficiency
• Strong operational skills with a commitment to continuous improvement
• Skilled in using Adobe Acrobat including Adobe Pro, Acrobat Reader, Acrobat, and Acrobat.com
• Skilled in using iManage document management software
• Skilled in TeamConnect
• Skilled in using LexisNexis
  Additional Information

The Legal Project Manager role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Assess the team’s current knowledge systems, repositories, and practices, then work to create a strategy that marries traditional best practices and new technologies to create consistency, enable better ongoing data hygiene and curation, and make it easier to find and leverage knowledge resources.
• Help to design, document, or enhance team processes and workflows, identifying technology solutions that might provide efficiency, building automations or ticketing systems where feasible, or liaising with our legal operations team.
• Support cross-functional projects and partner / collaborate with project management.
• Conduct legislative, statutory, regulatory, or factual research that might include investigation of federal or state consumer protection laws and regulations, relevant markets, corporate participants, and industry standards and practices.
• Independently perform extensive legal research and analysis in support of staff attorneys.
• Search for legal precedent in indices and computerized legal reference systems and analyze their applicability to individual projects. Prepare summaries of research findings.
• Apply the results of legal research to the specific problem or issue presented and formulate a recommended course of action