Paralegal

Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
  
  

Your Impact

You will provide support for FOIA/public records request, including proposing redactions, managing intake and documentation of such requests, and day-to-day management of FOIA-related administrative tasks.

You will assist with the preparation and maintenance of corporate records of McKinsey’s US public sector business, such as board meeting minutes, resolutions, and bylaws. You will monitor changes in laws and regulations that may impact the firm’s North America public sector business. You will also support internal audits and investigations related to government contracting compliance issues.

You will draft and review non-disclosure agreements, teaming agreements, and other commercial agreements, conduct legal research on federal and state statutes, regulations, case law, and related topics, and summarize findings for attorneys and other firm stakeholders, manage the North America public sector legal department’s inboxes, files, databases, and records, assist with the development and delivery of training programs on government contracting regulations and best practices for attorneys and contract managers, and lastly assist with the development and management of central repository of knowledge assets (contract templates, disclaimers, standard documents, etc.

Your work will directly support the firm’s mission to help clients achieve their goals while safeguarding the firm’s reputation and long-term success.

The work of McKinsey DC (USG) spans economic development, education, health care, public finance, infrastructure, operations and delivery, and defense and security. We work with the world’s largest public sector organizations to address major challenges such as macroeconomic vulnerability, population aging, urbanization, and digitization of government services. In the social sector, we support the world’s leading institutions in developing and scaling up solutions to major social challenges. One of the major hubs for our Social, Healthcare and Public Entities (SHaPE) practice is our Washington, D.C. office. Co-location with the D.C-based client service teams, stakeholders, and legal and contracts professionals is required.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• U.S. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required
• 1+ years of relevant experience
• Proficiency of Microsoft Office suite
• Confident team player who is highly collaborative and flexible
• Self-starter with ability to drive tasks and projects to completion
• Ability to develop relationships and network within and outside the firm
• Ability to work independently and entrepreneurially, managing and prioritizing multiple competing priorities
• Enjoys working in a challenging and fast-paced environment
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong analytical skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills