General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer

Job Details

Job Location:

Amarillo, TX 79101

Position Type:
Full Time

Education Level: Graduate Degree

The General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer (GC, CLO) serves as the executive of the Legal and Regulatory function(s). This position also serves as an Officer for Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc. (GSEC). This position provides strategic insight and leadership in the areas of accountability, ensuring Cooperative alignment with the overall GSEC strategic direction. The GC, CLO ensures that areas of accountability’s risks are communicated and mitigated to the appetite of GSEC’s leadership and Board of Directors (BOD).

The GC, CLO is responsible for building trusted and credible relationships with GSEC Board of Directors. This position is accountable for representing GSEC’s interests and brand at external organizations and forums.

The GC, CLO influences and encourages employee development and growth through personal behaviors that demonstrate Cooperative Principles, GSEC’s Mission, Vision, and Values. Influence and inspire commitment and engagement by advocating for employees while balancing the needs of the Cooperative overall.

The position fosters a culture within the organization to promote compliance by the Board of Directors, management and employees with all legal requirements, rules and regulations of regulatory agencies, Electric Reliability Council of Texas and Southwest Power Pool market requirements, and company policies and procedures. It also fosters a culture to ensure that behavior in the organization meets the company's Standards of Conduct.

The GC, CLO is a person of high integrity and ethics.

This position is expected to lead the compliance department as the Chief Compliance Officer after the first year of onboarding.

• Provide leadership and recommendations to CEO regarding area of accountability issues and needs, prioritization of organizational resources, rates, issues, and interactions.
• Develop and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify opportunities for improvement in area of accountability.
• Be an organizational leader to ensure staff are motivated and communicated to achieve organizational-wide goals.
• Lead the legal, regulatory, market affairs, and compliance team to ensure staff is developed and successfully performing the function and positively impacting the GSEC culture.
• Ultimate accountability in the areas of market and regulatory risk and compliance issues including advising on legal, market and regulatory aspects of the company's business strategies, implications of current and future business structures and legal entities.
• Ultimate accountability for leading the legal function, including providing leadership and BOD legal advice and counsel on company issues, matters of significance, and requirements, and managing internal and external counsel.
• Ultimate accountability for leading the Enterprise Compliance function including ensuring the CEO, appropriate Board committees, and Board are informed regarding important compliance issues and material violations and the results of the compliance/ethics efforts of the corporation, promoting a culture of compliance, and directly engaging in interactions with regulators and oversees the use of outside counsel and consultants on compliance issues of major importance.
• Accountable for compliance with the Golden Spread Safety Policy including all Safety Procedures and third party and Member contractual obligations.
• Other duties as assigned.

This position confronts highly complex issues and risks and must utilize depth and breadth of experience to assess business environment changes and impact. The GC, CLO must then make sound recommendations. Issues impact the entire organization, all GSEC staff and Member cooperatives. Issues and decisions have executive level financial impact on the organization and Member cooperatives. Matters must be managed with significant importance placed on deadlines.

The individual must be able to think quickly and apply policies, processes, and procedures effectively and accurately with no or minimal disruption to the core business of the…