Chief Legal Officer

The Agency You’ll JoinThe New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. Previously, Mayor Adams has served the people of New York City as an NYPD officer, state senator, and Brooklyn borough president. The Adams’ administration is leading the fight to serve the people of the greatest city in the world, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, working to make New York City’s economy stronger, reducing inequality, improving public safety, and making the city more affordable that meets the needs of all New Yorkers. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team.The Team You’ll Work WithThe Mayor's Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV) develops policies and programs, provides training and prevention education, conducts research and evaluations, performs community outreach and operates the New York City Family Justice Centers. We collaborate with City agencies and community stakeholders to ensure access to inclusive services for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence (GBV). GBV can include intimate partner and family violence, elder abuse, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking.The Problems You’ll SolveThe Chief Legal Officer, with wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment, will reportdirectly to the Commissioner and will perform a broad scope of legal duties.Duties of the Chief Legal Officer will include, but are not limited to:- Provide sound legal advice to the Commissioner and staff on a broad range of matters, which may include reviewing procedures, policies, programs, contracts, and legislation, and ensuring compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations.- Contracts: Draft, review, negotiate, and execute contractual agreements and provide procurement-related legal guidance and advice.- Management: Provide daily direct supervision to members of the Legal team.- Ethics: Analyze compliance with the rules of the Conflict-of-Interest Board and draft related legal documents and memos.- Privacy/Records: Oversee the implementation of privacy-related work in the office and compliance with the privacy laws of NYC and ensure compliance with record retention policies and practices.- FOIL: Review of Freedom of Information Law requests.- Litigation: Manage litigation-related activities, in collaboration with the NYC Law Department.- Maintain a filing system for all legally related documents.- Support or lead other special projects and duties, assigned.About You- You have a Juris Doctor from an American Bar Association-accredited law school.- You have admission to the New York State Bar and at least seven years of recent full-time,responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, with at least three years providing supervision to legal staff.EXECUTIVE AGENCY COUNSEL - Minimum QualificationsAdmission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work. Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.Preferred SkillsPreferred Skills: The ideal candidate has prior experience working in NYC government and is a self-motivated, experienced attorney with superb writing, leadership, and problem-solving skills. The position requires an individual who enjoys substantial responsibility and thrives in a fast-paced, sometimes high-pressure environment. - Excellent legal analysis and creative problem-solving skills Demonstrated ability to work on a wide variety of legal matters, with prior NYC government experience. - Strong and sturdy decision-making and leadership skills. - Experience in negotiation. - Superior writing skills and attention to detail, with a demonstrated ability in drafting legal documents. - An effective self-starter with the ability to work both independently and in a diverse team environment with all levels of supervisory and frontline staff. - Strong interest in working in the field of gender-based violence and/or a commitment to public service.Public Service Loan ForgivenessAs a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at class="jobad-residencyRequirement">Residency RequirementCity Residency is required for this position