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About the Role

The General Counsel serves as a key member of the senior leadership team, reporting directly to the Commissioner. This role provides strategic legal leadership for the agency's large-scale contracting and procurement portfolio, ensuring legal processes support timely and effective service delivery across New York City.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of the Commissioner’s senior leadership team to contribute to agency-wide strategy and decision-making.
• Integrate the legal function into program, procurement, finance, and operations.
• Partner with senior leaders to translate legal requirements into actionable approaches that advance agency goals.
• Lead all legal aspects of the agency's contracting portfolio, including drafting, negotiation, and execution of contracts and solicitations.
• Provide expert guidance on procurement and contract lifecycle management.
• Partner with the Agency Chief Contracting Officer to improve contracting processes and reduce delays.
• Recruit, develop, and manage a high-performing legal team.
• Build internal systems and processes to support efficiency, transparency, and consistency.
• Serve as a primary liaison to the NYC Law Department, Department of Investigation, and other oversight entities.
• Represent the agency in high-level legal discussions, negotiations, and interagency coordination.
• Represent the agency on external discrimination complaints from EEO/Human Rights agencies.
• Advise on procurement law, administrative law, ethics, civil service, civil rights, employment law, and fiscal compliance.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Lead efforts to modernize legal and contracting processes and support strategic agency-wide initiatives.
• Oversee special projects assigned by the Commissioner.

Requirements

• Admission to the New York State Bar.
• Four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar.
• Eighteen months of experience in the supervision of other attorneys in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity, or performing highly complex legal work.
• Must remain a member of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of employment.

Skills

• Contracting and procurement law
• Public-sector compliance
• FOIL and data governance
• Administrative law
• Legal strategy
• Risk management
• Team leadership and management
• Interagency coordination
• Employment and labor law

Location

• New York City, NY

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Executive level

Education Level

• Juris Doctor (JD)

Salary/Compensations

• USD 210,000 - USD 225,000

About the Company

• The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in community-based organizations to deliver services that strengthen young people, families, and communities.
• DYCD manages one of the largest human services contracting portfolios in New York City.

Equal Opportunity

• The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment based on any legally protected status.