Legal Project Manager Hybrid

Job Description

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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.

We have one opening for this role and it can be worked on a Hybrid basis from our Washington, DC / Midtown, Reston Town Center, or Plano office.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

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.

Qualifications :

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

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

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Fannie Mae is primarily a hybrid company. We embrace flexibility for our employees while providing office space for in-person work and collaboration.

This role is classified as Hybrid. If you speak with a Recruiter, they will provide you with more information about the definition of this classification.

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at careers [email protected].

The hiring range for this role is set forth on each of our job postings located on Fannie Mae's Career Site. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications.

This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee’s physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

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Remote working / work at home options are available for this role.