Chief Legal Officer

City of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of New York is seeking a Chief Legal Officer for the Mayor's Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence. This role involves providing legal guidance, managing a legal team, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations. The ideal candidate will have extensive legal experience, including supervision of legal staff, and a commitment to public service.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of legal experience, including 3 years supervising legal staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on policies, contracts, and compliance.
• Draft and negotiate contracts and manage litigation activities.

Skills

Legal Experience

Supervision

Education

Juris Doctor

Job description

Job Description

The Agency You’ll Join

The 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 With

The 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 Solve

The Chief Legal Officer, with wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment, will report
directly 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 (7) years of recent full-time,
responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, with at
least three (3) years providing supervision to legal staff.

EXECUTIVE AGENCY COUNSEL - 95005

Qualifications

Admission 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.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.