About this role
Acumen is hiring a Program Legal Counsel based in Canada to lead legal compliance and contract support for a five-year program serving early-stage social enterprises. The role supports program delivery by advising on Canadian law and donor requirements, coordinating with outside counsel, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure legal and regulatory adherence. This position is contingent on funding approval and reports to the Director of Legal and Associate Director of Risk and Compliance.
Required Skills
- Legal Compliance
- Contract Drafting
- Contract Review
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Regulatory Research
- Due Diligence
- Policy Development
- Risk Management
- Time Management
Qualifications
- License to Practice Law
- Authorized to Work in Canada
About Acumen
acumen.orgNew Relic is a SaaS observability platform that helps engineering and operations teams monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize applications and infrastructure. It ingests telemetry — metrics, traces, logs, events and real-user data — from agents and integrations and exposes APM, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, logs, synthetics, and alerting in a single UI. The New Relic One experience includes a query language (NRQL), customizable dashboards, real-time analytics and collaboration tools so teams can quickly pinpoint issues and measure performance. Organizations choose New Relic for broad language/cloud integrations, end-to-end visibility, and query-driven insights that accelerate incident response and performance tuning.