General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs

The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) keeps New York City healthy safe and clean by collecting recycling and disposing of waste cleaning City streets and vacant lots and clearing snow and ice. DSNY is the nations largest municipal sanitation agency with nearly 10000 employees 59 district garages and a fleet of more than 5000 trucks cars and other types of equipment. The Department clears litter snow and ice from approximately 6500 miles of City streets and removes debris from vacant lots as well as abandoned vehicles from City streets.

DSNY is seeking a strategic and highly-experienced attorney to serve as General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs (General Counsel). Reporting to the Commissioner the General Counsel serves as the chief legal officer for the agency. This executive-level role oversees the Departments Bureau of Legal Affairs a team of attorneys and related support staff with expertise in environmental law labor law procurement litigation legislative and regulatory matters and employee discipline.

The responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

-Executive Legal Strategy: Serve as Agency General Counsel and primary legal advisor to the Commissioner and senior leadership on all matters impacting agency operations and policy. Provides legal opinions to Department officials in collaboration with the Corporation Counsel and Counsel to the Mayor.

-Regulatory & Environmental Compliance: Oversee legal strategies related to waste management policy and compliance with local state and federal laws (including environmental review requirements and DEC and EPA regulations).

-Administrative Law: Represents the Department in consultations and administrative proceedings with other City State and Federal agencies.

-Procurement and Contracts: In collaboration with the Agency Chief Contracting Officer provides oversight for the drafting and negotiation of agency procurements including high-value service agreements for waste management complex construction contracts and concession agreements essential to NYCs waste management infrastructure.

-Labor and Employment: Advises on sensitive labor issues and manages discipline-related matters that require the input or guidance of the Bureau of Legal Affairs for a diverse workforce of 10000 civilian and uniformed employees and multiple labor unions.

-Leadership: Provides guidance and strategic direction for the Bureaus attorneys across a wide spectrum of compliance and policy initiatives including but not limited to Freedom of Information requests record retention HIPAA privacy policies legally required reports mitigation of conflicts of interest matters and equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations.

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 individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time