The Senior Paralegal provides critical paralegal and legal administrative support for the Legal and Records Departments.  The position reports directly to the Associate General Counsel with a dotted line of report to all other attorneys in the Legal Department, including Corporate Counsel and the General Counsel.  The Senior Paralegal supports the Legal and Records Departments across all areas, including business licensing and registration, document management, litigation holds, corporate governance, organizing contracts, and taking a leadership role over the proxy and annual election processes. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (and other duties as assigned)

1. Maintain confidentiality of sensitive legal and HR matters with discretion.
2. Implement and manage document retention/organization systems and centralized contract management database.
3. Manage and maintain corporate records, minute books, business licenses and registrations, and other corporate documents.
4. Provide support to ASRC’s various departments and subsidiaries.
5. Perform legal research under the supervision of attorneys.
6. Review and draft contracts, letters, memorandums, legal holds, presentations, and other legal-related documents.
7. Develop and maintain standard contract, letter, and other business document templates.
8. Provide strategic support to ensure successful proxy and annual election processes. 
9. Support the Corporate Secretary and Stock Departments, including strategic initiatives to support internal record keeping and shareholder inquiries.
10. Support merger and acquisition transactions and associated due diligence, including projects related to strategic growth initiatives.
11. Ensure required corporate filings/corporate governance documents are compliant with state and federal law and implement best practices to streamline and improve compliance efforts. 
12. Assist in special project support tasks as directed by attorneys. 
13. Interact professionally with all stakeholders, including Board of Directors, senior leadership team, internal and external clients, and staff, and maintain attorney-client confidentiality.
14. Other duties as assigned.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR MANAGER OF INDIVDUAL CONTRIBUTORS LEVEL

ASRC’s Core competencies include Leading Self, Leading People and Leading the Organization. In addition to our core competency model, our framework includes competencies specific to the various levels of positions within our company. For more information on our core competencies please contact the HR Department and reference the ASRC Leadership Framework.

Timely Decision Making

• Makes decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure.

Delegation

• Trusts people to perform through clear delegation of both routine and important tasks and decisions. 

Intellectual Horsepower

• Deal with concepts and complexity well; others may describe them as sharp, capable, and agile.

Comfort around Higher Management

• Comfortably deals with senior managers without undue tension or nervousness.  They understand how senior managers think and work.

Informing

• Provides timely information that people need to know in order to do their jobs and make accurate decisions

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

1. Strong knowledge, understanding, and sensitivity to the Iñupiat culture.
2. Relevant legal experience supporting senior level executive staff with a proven working knowledge of corporate activities including shareholder meetings and board meetings.
3. Ability to organize work, establish priorities, and maintain good interpersonal relations with legal and subsidiary staff.
4. Working knowledge of various corporate filings, officer certifications, and other corporate procedures.
5. Paralegal certification by an institution approved by the American Bar Association or college training in paralegal studies or in a law degree program.
6. Minimum of six years of paralegal or equivalent Legal experience.  Experience in a law firm is strongly preferred.
7. Ability to identify and analyze complex legal issues and draft legal memoranda, position papers, and related documents. 
8. Ability to manage professional accreditation requirements, periodicals, and memberships, etc.
9. Must have strong technical knowledge of database, spreadsheet, Power Point, and word processing software.  Minimum typing speed of 65 wpm.
10. Excellent command of proper grammar and spelling with superior knowledge of correct law and corporate office format, policies and procedures, and the ability to edit and proof legal documents with excellent accuracy.
11. Working knowledge and capable of performing legal research on Westlaw/Lexis and using Serengeti/Legal Tracker to monitor outside counsel legal spend.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to sit; reach with hands and arms; and to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.   Specific vision abilities required by this job includes the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment is in a busy office setting.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions and may be required to travel in small and large commercial aircraft.

NOTE:  This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The statements contained herein are intended to describe the principal functions of this position, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibilities, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.

ASRC is a drug-free workplace and pre-employment drug testing is part of the hiring process.

ASRC and its family of companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status or any other legal protected status.  EOE:  M|F|D|V EEO Poster

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, an Inupiat-owned corporation created as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

ASRC's family of companies apply a shareholder preference in employment, to the maximum extent feasible, as authorized by law.