Assistant General Counsel, Labor and Employment

About the role

This role focuses on ensuring the organization's business activities are conducted ethically and in compliance with relevant regulations, laws, and standards. It involves providing legal advice, counseling, and representing the organization in various legal matters.

Responsibilities

• Provides legal advice/counsel in business-related areas, researches, analyzes, and interprets proposed and existing laws, statutes, and regulations.
• Identifies, monitors, and addresses issues of legal risk, structures, drafts, negotiates, and/or approves legal contracts, letters of agreement, policies, and other documents.
• Represents/advocates for an organization in litigation, arbitration, mediation, or other disputes with courts, government agencies, or other legal authorities.
• Develops and maintains policies, procedures, and forms pertaining to patient care, labor and employment, and administrative matters.
• Reviews, drafts, and negotiates leases and contracts involving the Health System and its affiliates.
• Participates in the development and maintenance of systems to ensure data storage, processing, and retrieval related to incident and event reporting and credentialing information.
• Presents educational material and disseminates information relating to relevant legal issues to Health System medical, professional, technical, and administrative staff.
• Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues to effectively contribute to the working group’s achievement of goals, and to help foster a positive work environment.
• Represents Health System Boards and Committees and advises on nonprofit corporate governance matters.
• Collaborates and provides guidance to certain members of the legal staff, including paralegals and support staff.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate Degree.
• Licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Three (3) years of experience in labor and employment law, either in a law firm setting, in-house setting, or combination of both.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five (5) years of experience in labor and employment law.

Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of federal and Massachusetts law with legal issues impacting health care institutions and providers, and nonprofit organizations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to relate well with others at various levels and ability to educate and train others.
• Leadership style that emphasizes openness, visibility, and connectivity.
• Energetic, forward-thinking, high ethical standards, an appropriate professional image, and skilled in fostering collaboration and building consensus to achieve collective objectives.
• Strong advocate for the desired culture in high-level planning and decision making, with a focus on performance accountability and achieving greater operational efficiencies.
• Ability to analyze operations to evaluate performance in meeting objectives or to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy changes.
• Ability to integrate long-range plans with operational plans and capital priorities.

Benefits

The position offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports your health, financial security, and career growth. Beyond base pay, benefits include:

• Comprehensive health insurance options.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Retirement savings plan with company match.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Work-life balance initiatives.

Pay

The base pay range for this role is $111,175.79 - $141,756.53.