Chief Legal Officer
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Job Description
Job Description:
The Chief Legal Officer (CLO) is a key member of ARCs executive leadership team providing strategic legal guidance and executive oversight of procurement contracts and compliance. Inclusive of legal acumen success in this role requires accountability timely decision-making strong communication skills and the capacity to build trusted partnerships across the agency.
The CLO will ensure ARCs legal procurement and contracting operations are efficient transparent and customer-focused. This leader will be expected to deliver timely practical counsel while fostering collaboration and high performance across the Legal & Procurement functions. Meeting deadlines building trust and maintaining a strong service orientation are essential to success in this role.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as ARCs chief legal advisor to the CEO Board Chiefs and senior leadership.
- Provide timely solution-oriented legal counsel on contracts procurement grants employment law governance ethics compliance and risk management.
- Lead and modernize ARCs procurement and contracts functions ensuring efficiency accountability and compliance with federal state and local requirements.
- Oversee the development negotiation and review of contracts solicitations agreements and MOUs.
- Establish and uphold standards of timeliness transparency and professionalism in all legal and procurement services.
- Partner with internal departments as a collaborative advisor ensuring proactive support for agency needs.
- Provide guidance on labor and employment law ensuring compliance with state and federal statutes.
- Align ARCs policies and practices with applicable laws regulations and best practices.
- Manage legal risk proactively while supporting organizational agility and innovation.
- Oversee outside counsel as needed ensuring effective and cost-conscious representation.
- Monitor changes in laws and regulations and advise leadership on impacts to the agency.
- Build and maintain a culture of responsiveness customer service and teamwork within Legal & Procurement.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school; active membership in the Georgia State Bar required.
- Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible legal experience including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
- Experience with government municipal nonprofit or public agency law strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated expertise in procurement law contract management and vendor negotiations.
- Proven track record of meeting deadlines and delivering exceptional client service.
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust foster collaboration and balance legal risk with practical solutions.
- Commitment to accountability integrity equity and the mission of public service.
Required Knowledge Skills Abilities and Competencies:
Knowledge of:
- Federal state and local laws applicable to public agencies including contract procurement employment ethics and administrative law.
- Legal principles practices and procedures relevant to government nonprofit and intergovernmental operations.
- Public procurement regulations and competitive solicitation requirements.
- Principles of governance risk management compliance and organizational policy development.
- Best practices in contract negotiation drafting and administration.
- Employment law workplace policies and human resources compliance.
- Budgetary and financial principles as they relate to contracts vendors and legal risk.
Skills in:
- Delivering timely and solution-oriented legal advice to senior leadership and staff.
- Negotiating drafting and reviewing complex contracts and agreements.
- Leading and modernizing procurement and contract administration processes.
- Managing sensitive issues with discretion integrity and professionalism.
- Clear persuasive and concise communicationboth written and verbal.
- Building consensus fostering collaboration and resolving conflicts.
- Managing outside counsel effectively and cost-efficiently.
- Organizing prioritizing and executing multiple high-stakes projects under tight deadlines.
Ability to:
- Balance legal risk with organizational priorities to achieve practical mission-focused outcomes.
- Build and sustain trusted partnerships across all levels of the organization.
- Exercise sound judgment accountability and responsiveness in high-pressure situations.
- Lead with emotional intelligence demonstrating empathy tact and respect for diverse perspectives.
- Establish and uphold a culture of timeliness professionalism and customer service within Legal & Procurement.
- Interpret analyze and apply complex legal and regulatory information to real-world organizational challenges.
- Provide strategic leadership while remaining detail-oriented and attentive to compliance.
- Adapt to evolving legal and regulatory landscapes while maintaining organizational agility.
Additional Information
About ARC:
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is the regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency that focuses on issues critical to the regions success including growth and development transportation water resources services for older adults and workforce solutions. ARC is dedicated to unifying the regions collective resources to prepare the metropolitan area for a prosperous future. This is done through professional planning initiatives the provision of objective information and the involvement of the community in collaborative partnerships.
ARC Strategic Framework
Vision ONE great REGION
Mission Statement
The Atlanta Regional Commission fosters thriving communities for all within the Atlanta region through collaborative data-informed planning and investments.
Our Goals
- Healthy safe livable communitiesin the Atlanta metro area.
- Strategic investmentsin people infrastructure mobility and preserving natural resources.
- Regional services delivered withoperational excellenceandefficiency.
- Diverse stakeholders engageand take a regional approach to solve local issues.
- A competitive economythat is inclusive innovative and resilient.
Our Core Values
Excellence A commitment to doing our best and going above and beyond in every facet of our work allowing for innovative practices and actions to be created while ensuring our agencys and our colleagues success.
Equity We represent a belief that there are some things which people should have that there are basic needs that should be fulfilled that burdens and rewards should not be spread too divergently across the community and that policy should be directed with impartiality fairness and justice towards these ends.
Integrity In our conduct communication and collaboration with each other and the regions residents we will act with consistency honesty transparency fairness and accountability within and across each of our responsibilities and functions.
Application Process:
The Atlanta Regional Commission is looking for individuals who enjoy working in a public service environment where the mission is to improve the quality of life for the citizens of the Atlanta serves as a forum where leaders come together to discuss and act on issues of regionwide consequence so it is important that our staff share the public entrepreneurial spirit that defines ARC.
As an Equal Opportunity EmployerARC does not discriminate on the basis of race color age national origin sex religion or disability.
For questions about recruitment or to request a reasonable accommodation during the application interview or testing process please contact ARC at or Human Resources via email at .
Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
