Walmart: Hiring Senior Lead Counsel for Regulatory & Specialty Team - Bentonville, Arkansas

Walmart is searching for Senior Lead Counsel for their Regulatory & Specialty Team. The Regulatory & Specialty team at the world's largest retailer advises business and leadership about existing and emerging regulatory frameworks across a wide range of areas including product regulatory, food safety, alcohol, licensing & permits, and more. The Senior Lead Counsel - Regulatory role is a key role, responsible for developing and driving a consistent regulatory compliance strategy across our existing and new businesses. They will collaborate closely with teammates across legal and compliance and with their business partners. They will also appropriately leverage a wide range of outside counsel expertise, with an eye to effectively managing legal risk and spend. 

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Cargill - Hiring Intellectual Property Attorney in Wayzata, Minnesota

Cargill's size and scale allows them to make a positive impact in the world. Their purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. They are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. They connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. They connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love and connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. 

Cargill is currently searching for an Intellectual Property Attorney. The attorney will handle the intellectual property affairs for the company with collaboration from senior lawyers. This role will be responsible for managing a significant patent portfolio and for advising and representing the organization on legal issues primarily concerning patent and trade secret matters. 

Click the link to apply: https://careers.cargill.com/en/job/wayzata/intellectual-property-attorney/23251/72040110176 

Conservation Law Fund - Now Hiring for Various Positions & Locations

Conservation Law Fund protects New England's environment for the benefit of all people. They use the law, science, and the market to create solutions that preserve our natural resources, build healthy communities, and sustain a vibrant economy. Thanks to CLF's relentless advocacy - in courtrooms, in statehouses, and in boardrooms from New England to D.C. - today Boston Harbor is the pride of the city, Georges Bank is free from oil and gas rigs, Lake Champlain's polluted waters are getting cleaner, and New England's remaining obsolete coal plants are on the verge of shutting down for good. CLF creates comprehensive long-term solutions to environmental challenges. CLF is a critical mover in building a new energy infrastructure, restoring the health of our oceans, countering climate change, and safeguarding the health, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our families and neighbors for generations to come. 

CLF is currently hiring in various positions. Click the links below to explore each one!

Senior Attorney - Ocean Conservation

Climate Attorney - Clean Energy

Clean Air & Water Attorney

UN FAO - Hiring Legal Specialist on the Right to Adequate Food (Home-Based)

The Legal Office of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations provides legal advisory services to governments on food and agriculture and natural resources (including land, water, fisheries and aquaculture, plants, animals, food, forestry, wildlife, environment, climate change and biodiversity), as well as general agricultural issues (institutions, trade, & economic reform). It ensures that FAO's activities are carried out in accordance with its Constitution and the other Basic Texts of the Organization, consistent with its status as an intergovernmental organization of the United Nations system, and its relations with governments, organizations, and individuals are based on a sound legal basis. 

The FAO is currently hiring for a Legal Specialist on the Right to Adequate Food. That role will be responsible for:

• Leading and supporting awareness-raising and capacity building activities to strengthen the capacity of stakeholders to advocate for, propose, enact, and implement legislation on the right to adequate food
• Contributing to legal drafting support on constitutional amendments, framework laws, and sectoral laws relevant for the realization of the right to adequate food
• Researching, collecting, and analyzing legal frameworks for the realization of the right to adequate food and documenting experiences from different parts of the globe
• Identifying synergies between sectoral areas that have an impact on the realization of the right to adequate food of all, paying particular attention to groups or person in a situation of vulnerability, especially women and youth 

Act quickly! Applications close November 22, 2024. Apply here: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2403426&tz=GMT-06%3A00&tzname=America%2FChicago 

Bayer - Hiring State Regulatory Engagement in Chesterfield, Missouri

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of healthcare and agriculture. They design our products and services to help tackle some of the world's biggest challenges, and to serve the most essential human needs of health and nutrition. 

Bayer is currently searching for State Regulatory Engagement to lead the overall BCS U.S. state regulatory engagement strategy to promote and defend license to operate in all U.S. state and territories across all platforms, to include Crop Protection, Seed Applied Solutions, Seeds & Traits, and Biologicals. In this role, you will build and maintain effective and trusting relationships with US State regulatory authorities, to understand key emerging issues, and set engagement strategies. You will also be responsible for engagement with State Lead Agencies. Additionally, you will be accountable to ensure issues are analyzed, manages, and timely communicated to key internal stakeholders all for the purpose of timely regulatory registrations across the states. 

Click here to apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4063895069/?alternateChannel=search&refId=OuAZTcXb6JKVhKj8ktFqFg%3D%3D&trackingId=xBEoOgGx4UrWhC2x71a%2BBA%3D%3D 

Florida Legislature Now Hiring Attorney for Commerce Committee in Tallahassee, Florida

The Florida Legislature is currently searching for an Attorney for the Commerce Committee in Tallahassee, Florida. This position will focus on issues related to agriculture, agricultural products, aquaculture, food safety, fruits and vegetables, livestock, pesticides, the animal industry, and the plant industry. The Attorney will conduct legal research related to assigned topics and issues; analyze legislation, draft bills, amendments, analyses of bills, and other documents; and provide counsel and advice to legislators and legislative committees. 

Click here to apply and learn more: https://www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/4729350-0/legislative-analyst-attorney-commerce-committee

Conterra Ag Capital - Hiring Associate Counsel in Des Moines, Iowa

Conterra Ag Capital is an ag lending institution that focuses exclusively on agriculture. They provide loan servicing, alternative lending and asset management to institutional investors, banks, farmers, ranchers and other agricultural lenders throughout the United States. 

Conterra Ag Capital, a growing agricultural lending and asset management company located in West Des Moines and serving agricultural producers nationwide, is seeking an Associate Counsel to join its Legal Department. The Associate Counsel will report to Senior Counsel and work closely with a team of attorneys, closers, and services to document, close, and service commercial agriculture loans oriented across the country. The Associate Counsel will also support the performance, representation, direction, and oversight of assigned legal and compliance activities for Conterra and its subsidiaries/affiliates. Ideal candidates will have a working knowledge of ag real estate and/or commercial lending. 

Click here to learn more: https://www.conterraag.com/ag-careers/ag-careers-associate-counsel/ 

Maryland Sea Grant State Science Policy Fellowship

Maryland is a leader in addressing climate change with a comprehensive program for mitigation and adaptation. The current goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and an intent for net zero by 2045. This goal is complemented by ongoing programs for coastal resilience, adaptation to more intense storms, more severe floods, extensive droughts and heat waves. These state-wide efforts are guided by the Maryland Commission on Climate Change (MCCC). 

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences is currently searching for a Science Policy Fellow. The Science Policy Fellow, working with experts within the University System of Maryland (USM) and Second Nature, will lead the development of a report describing conceptual pathways for the UMCES to achieve net zero. In addition, the Fellow will collaborate with experts across USM to develop recommendations for tracking progress, sharing knowledges across the USM institutions and documenting practices that could be adopted by other organizations in Maryland and beyond. The Science Policy Fellow will staff and participate in the MCCC Science and Technical Working Group (STWG) meetings as well as attend MCCC meetings. The Fellow will be able to participate in any STWG activity that suits their background and professional interests. 

Applications are due December 16, 2024. Click here to apply!