ATTORNEY IV

Job Description and Duties Under the direction of the General Counsel, at the advanced journey level, the Attorney IV will serve as an expert to perform the more complex and sensitive functions: (1) conduct legal research; (2) provide expert analysis regarding all areas of federal higher education law affecting the Chancellor’s Office and the California Community Colleges, including but not limited to immigration, nondiscrimination, and grants (3) work on appeals of discrimination complaints and conduct investigations as needed; (4) develop and draft regulations; (5) draft legal opinions; (6) prepare bill analyses; (7) review and revise contracts and grants, and drafts contract language, including maintaining contract templates; (8) research and investigate community college compliance with law; (9) act as lead attorney on projects with attorneys and staff; and (10) perform other legal duties as assigned. Interested Candidates may establish eligibility by taking the experience and education exam here: CalCareers How did you hear about this position? Tell us in a brief survey. Employees must reside in CA for a job appointment. You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement. Special Requirements The Statement of Qualification (SOQ) is a narrative discussion of how your education, training, experience, and skills meet the minimum and desirable qualifications and qualify you for the position. The SOQ serves as documentation of each candidate's ability to present information clearly and concisely in writing. The SOQ must be no more than a maximum of two pages typed, single-spaced, in 12 pt. Arial font. Indicate your name, the position number and "Statement of Qualifications" at the top of the page. The SOQ must be organized and numbered in the order of the desirable qualifications. • Incumbents in the Attorney IV classification are expected to work on the more complex and difficult matters of Chancellor’s Office. Please describe at least two such legal assignments you have handled, including one assignment where you worked independently with minimal supervision and one assignment where you worked collaboratively. • Please describe an instance during your legal career when you were confronted with a sensitive and/or challenging situation that required you to exercise good judgment. What did you decide, what factors and alternatives did you consider, and why did you make that decision? • As an Attorney IV with the Chancellor’s Office, you must handle multiple competing tasks, each of which can be highly sensitive or mission critical. One morning, you arrive to work and find another attorney in the Office of General Counsel has left an important draft briefing on your desk that is to be submitted to the Deputy Chancellor, with a note stating that the briefing is due later that day, but it is not complete, and the attorney is out sick and cannot complete the assignment. You have never seen the briefing before. Shortly after, you receive a call from a dean at one of the local campuses seeking advice from the Office of General Counsel on a time-sensitive matter. While you are on the phone, an administrative staff member who looks upset interrupts your conversation to complain that he overheard his secretary make a derogatory comment about his ethnicity. He notifies you that he wants the secretary disciplined immediately. Finally, you have an important meeting scheduled in thirty minutes with a Assistant General Counsel that will take up the rest of the morning regarding a request from the Executive Cabinet. Explain how you would handle these situations and the reasoning behind the course(s) of action you would take. Desirable Qualifications In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate: • Commitment to the principles of Vision 2030, the Chancellor’s Office Roadmap for the California Community Colleges. • Knowledge of legal principles regarding higher education and public education, and specifically federal law as it applies to public and higher education. • Knowledge of government transparency laws, such as the Bagley-Keene Act, the Public Records Act and the Fair Political Practices Act. • Extensive experience providing advice to a public entity at all staffing and executive levels on a variety of the most complicated legal issues, and highly political and sensitive matters; • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and accurately, both orally and in writing, on complex and highly technical legal issues; • Advanced expertise in drafting, reviewing, and editing contracts, correspondence, legal opinions, regulatory text, legislation, and other legal documents clearly and logically. • Ability to work independently and exercise independent discretion. • Ability to be flexible and handle unexpected developments and respond effectively under strict time constraints. • Ability to prioritize and complete assignments in a timely manner.