Legal Counsel - Architecture & Urbanism

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is looking to add Legal Counsel to its growing in-house legal team. Provide legal support to Arcadis’ Architecture and Urbanism Division in the areas of public and private sector architecture, design, planning, consulting, and contracts. The main responsibilities of this role include providing high-level and actionable legal advice in a timely manner across a broad range of issues that arise in the architecture, design, planning, consulting, and construction industry, primarily in the United States, with some international project work. This role requires strong written and verbal communication skills, and experience in contract review, risk mitigation, and claim management.

This role can be in any US Arcadis office.

Role accountabilities:

• Providing advice and support at all stages during the review, negotiation, and performance of architecture, planning, and consulting contracts from initiation to closure.
• Providing support to project teams during project execution to mitigate risk and claims exposure and management
• Proactively contributing to and providing best practices in areas of responsibility (e.g., contract management leadership, risk identification and mitigation, recognizing matters requiring elevated legal review) to the Arcadis business.
• Providing sound and insightful advice to the business on a variety of matters such as contract negotiation, risks associated with areas of responsibility, and providing training to relevant personnel on same.
• Promoting and upskilling relevant Arcadis personnel in identification and mitigation of legal and commercial risks in areas of responsibility.
• Performing other duties and responsibilities requiring general legal advice as required from time to time by the business including giving presentations, preparing briefing notes, and conducting research.

Key Attributes:

• Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks, consistently meet deadlines, and manage high-volume of work while exercising sound judgment and commercial acumen.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to balance company interests and legal principles, combined with high standard of integrity.
• Ability to support collaboration and operate effectively in a team environment.
• Have a demonstrated capacity to transcend geographic, interpersonal, or technical boundaries, by showing up as a professional who is consistently credible, authentic, and inclusive.
• Ability to understand and negotiate cultural differences in the countries in which A&U performs services.
• Must be able to work independently when faced with complex challenges that require multidisciplinary collaboration, robust relationships, and personal commitment to resolve.
• Client-focused, entrepreneurial, proactive, pragmatic, and highly adept at problem-solving.
• Motivated to learn things they are not familiar with, and adaptable to take that learning experience into good use.
• Experience under different jurisdictions an advantage

Qualifications & Experience:

• A Juris Doctor or its equivalent and a member in good standing of a Bar of a U.S. State, Territory, or the District of Columbia.
• U.S. Citizen residing within the United States
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated work experience in commercial contracts review, drafting, support, and negotiation (international exposure an advantage), ideally in both a reputable law firm and/or as an in-house lawyer.
• Demonstrated work experience in claims and risk management and mitigation.
• Contract and performance/risk management experience in all general aspects of architecture, engineering, planning, and design consulting; experience in privacy and data security an advantage; construction industry experience also valued.
• Knowledge of U.S. federal, state, and local public contracting laws preferred, but not required (where no knowledge is present, ability to perform targeted legal research)

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $145,000 - $170,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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