Counsel, Media Use and Royalty Manager

## Overview Called to K-LOVE Inspiring People to Move Closer to Jesus At K-LOVE, every role is ministry. We hire first for ministry alignment and a shared commitment to our faith, mission, vision, and values. We then seek talented professionals who can use their God-given gifts, skills, and experience to serve with excellence. If you love Jesus and are called to be part of a ministry that places Christ at the center of everything we do, we invite you to explore this opportunity. If your heart aligns with our mission and you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for the role, please keep reading. The **Counsel, Media Use & Royalty Manager** is a professional who is responsible for maintaining and servicing performance licenses necessary to use music in various media. This role works with domestic and foreign performing rights organizations, neighboring rights organizations as well as acting as a contact and liaison for record labels, music publishers, and artists relative to serve as a point of contact to maintain licensing agreements, researching and processing data, rendering reporting and timely accounting and remitting payments on a timely basis. The role will also prepare, review and process royalty accounting reports, remitting payment for incentive compensation payees and writers and authors (K-LOVE Books). This is an onsite role. Here's some of what you will be doing... - **Contract management**: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts across various domains, including real estate leases, technology contracts, and marketing agreements - **Compliance:** Supports K-LOVE’s compliance with relevant regulatory laws and regulations, advising on matters related to industry-specific standards and corporate policies. - **Mergers and Acquisitions:** Provides legal support throughout real and personal property, including real estate, leases, and the mergers and acquisitions process, including conducting due diligence and advising on structuring and documentation. - **Intellectual Property:** Manages, protects, and enforces the Ministry’s intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and with supporting representation of the Ministry’s intellectual property rights in negotiations and matters with third-parties. - **Media:** Provides legal support with media and entertainment matters, including content creation, distribution, and legal compliance, involving pre-publication review of content, advising on defamation, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property issues, negotiating and drafting contracts, and providing legal education to internal teams as well as advising on the legal aspects of music licensing, including negotiating and drafting agreements with record labels, publishers, and other stakeholders. - **HR Partnership & Global Employment Practices:** Provides legal support to the HR team on global employment practices, employment handbook updates, compliance training, and new country expansion, and offer Ministry-wide partnership through legal guidance on a wide range of employment-related matters, including employee onboarding and offboarding, performance, and discipline, and interpretation and application of HR policies and procedures - Research, assemble and process music use data for reporting compliance obligations to domestic and foreign performing rights and neighboring rights organizations. - Liaison with internal K-LOVE divisional clients to obtain and process data (e.g., cue sheets, international donor data, music use reports, etc.) and ensure all music use is properly tracked, reported and fully compliant, both domestically and internationally. - Knowledge of PRO's, SoundExchange, Music Licensing, Publishing Royalties, and general responsibilities involved with media content creation. - Work with K-LOVE leaders to create processes that ensureall music use, domestic and international, is properly tracked, reported, and fully compliant. - Maintain liaison relationship…