Contracts Attorney Supervisor - Staff Attorney Supervisor

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc as headings; can fold minor metadata into short p or drop it. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key substantive content: - Working Title: Contracts Attorney Supervisor (but we don't repeat as heading) - Job Class: Staff Attorney Supervisor (maybe minor metadata) - Agency: Human Services Dept - Location: St. Paul - Telework Eligible: Yes - Full/Part Time: Full-Time - Regular/Temporary: Unlimited - Who May Apply: Open to all qualified job seekers - Date Posted: 09/17/2026 - Closing Date: 09/30/2026 - Hiring Agency/Seniority Unit: Human Services Dept / DHS Central Office MMA - Division/Unit: DHS-Central Office / Compliance Contracting & Proc - Work Shift/Work Hours: Day Shift, 8:00am - 4:30pm - Days of Work: Monday - Friday - Travel Required: No - Salary Range: $48.44 - $69.21 / hourly; $101,142 - $144,510 / annually - Classified Status: Classified - Bargaining Unit/Union: 216 - Middle Management Association/MMA - FLSA Status: Exempt - Executive - Designated in Connect 700 Program for Applicants with Disabilities: Yes - The Department of Human Services is unable to provide sponsorship for work visas. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States at the start of employment. DHS does not participate in E-Verify. - The work you'll do is more than just a job... (some generic but maybe keep as About the role? It's about mission.) - This position is eligible for telework for applicants who reside in Minnesota or in a bordering state, with supervisory approval and satisfactory performance. If you live in a state bordering Minnesota, you must live within 50 miles or less from the primary work location to be eligible for telework. - As the Contract Attorney Supervisor, you will provide and supervise Contracts Attorneys in the following functions: professional, high-level legal expertise and services relating to complex contract development, review and contract performance in multiple subject areas and issues throughout the Department of Human Services (DHS). Responsibilities include but may not be limited to: (list) - Draft, review, and approve contracts as to form, enforceability and execution. - Provide counsel and advice to Department staff pertaining to intellectual property, indemnification and insurance issues and other contract issues serve as one of the Department’s subject matter experts regarding contracts with complex competitive proposal requirements for Departmental programs. - Negotiate contract legal issues with outside counsel including, but not limited to, intellectual property, indemnification, and insurance issues. - Provide legal contractual advice to Department staff and managers, other Department staff. - Develop and implement related training to Department staff and managers, other state agency staff, grantees, and coordinate contract activities with other state agencies. - Facilitate and enhance Department contract staff compliance with the statutory retainage requirement, the Department’s diversity and inclusionary goals in contracting, and ethics laws and state & Department ethics policies. - All DHS Leaders are expected to demonstrate and develop the five (5) competency themes from the Enterprise-wide Leader Competency Model: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading the Organization, Leading Outside the Organization, Getting Work Done. - Minimum Qualifications: JD degree from an ABA accredited law school; Current license and in good standing to practice law in Minnesota; At least five (5) years’ experience as a practicing attorney in an area of law related to the position with one (1) of the years working as a supervisor or in a leadership/lead role; and Knowledge and experience with state and federal contract law as they relate to human services programs. Experience must demonstrate the following: Strong legal research, analysis, and writing skills. Building and maintaining good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Providing legal advice to executive leadership on diverse and complex human services and contract matters. Supervision of staff including mentoring and fostering professional development or serving in a lead/leadership role. Experience in one or more areas of laws related to the position. - Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrated ability to communicate with a large and varied constituency, including legislators and legislative staff, the Attorney General’s Office, state local and federal agencies, professional and advocacy groups, as well as the general public. Extensive knowledge of information technology (IT) and intellectual property (IP) issues related to contracts, sufficient that the position holder is able to analyze and resolve complex questions of law related to IT contracts and contracts with IP components. Knowledge of state and federal data privacy laws, such as the Minnesota data practices act and the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act. Demonstrated ability to combine legal, strategic leadership, human relation, and diversity equity and inclusion skills. Experience with managing conflict effectively. Experience in managing team members and engaging in performance management-based conversations. Demonstrated ability to influence others and/or compel change throughout an organization. Experience collaborating and seeking out feedback from subject matter experts and peers when reviewing or planning work. Experience serving as a trusted resource or relationship manager to external partners. Variety of experiences working effectively with others from different backgrounds and cultures. - Additional Requirements: REFERENCE/BACKGROUND CHECKS – DHS will conduct reference checks to verify job-related credentials and a criminal background check prior to appointment. - How To Apply: (application instructions) we need to remove application instructions. - Contact: (contact info) remove? It's application instructions; we should drop. - About Human Services Dept: WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE! ... (some mission statement) could go under About the role? Actually "About Human Services Dept" is a section about agency; we could treat as About the role? The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should have sections like About the role (maybe summarizing the role description), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only those sections that have real specific content. We have: - About the role: we can include description of role: "As the Contract Attorney Supervisor, you will provide and supervise Contracts Attorneys..." plus mission statements maybe. Also telework eligibility details. - Responsibilities: list of duties (the bullet list after "Responsibilities include but may not be limited to:"). - Requirements: maybe Minimum Qualifications? The instruction says Requirements and Qualifications separate. Usually Requirements = minimum qualifications, Qualifications = preferred qualifications. We'll follow that. - Skills: maybe we can extract skills from responsibilities and qualifications: e.g., legal research, analysis, writing; stakeholder management; supervision; training development; contract negotiation; IP; data privacy; etc. But we must not invent or summarize away detail; we must preserve all substantive info. If we create a Skills section, we must only include content that is explicitly present as skills. The posting includes "Strong legal research, analysis, and writing skills." etc. Also "Building and maintaining good working relationships..." etc. Those could be considered skills. But we need to decide if we should create a Skills section. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Requirements and Qualifications maybe? But they said use headings for those categories. We'll include Requirements (minimum qualifications) and Qualifications (preferred qualifications). Skills maybe not needed if we can incorporate into those. However they explicitly list Skills as a possible heading. We could include Skills if there is explicit skill list. There is: "Strong legal research, analysis, and writing skills. Building and maintaining good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Providing legal advice to executive leadership on diverse and complex human services and contract matters. Supervision of staff including mentoring and fostering professional development or serving in a lead/leadership role." Those are skills/experience. Also preferred qualifications include communication, IT/IP knowledge, data privacy laws, conflict management, influencing, collaborating, etc. Those could be skills. But to avoid thin sections, maybe we merge Skills into Qualifications? But the instruction says use headings for those categories; we can still include Skills if we have content. Let's see if we have enough distinct content for Skills separate from Requirements and Qualifications. The Minimum Qualifications already includes skills like legal research, analysis, writing; stakeholder relationships; providing legal advice; supervision; experience in laws. Preferred Qualifications includes communication, IT/IP, data privacy, leadership, conflict management, influencing, collaborating, etc. Those could be considered skills as well. But we could treat Requirements = Minimum Qualifications, Qualifications = Preferred Qualifications, and maybe not need a separate Skills section. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Having three sections (Requirements, Qualifications, Skills) might be thin if we split. Better to have Requirements and Qualifications only, and maybe incorporate skills into those. But they gave example headings including Skills; we can omit if not substantive. Let's decide to include Requirements (minimum qualifications) and Qualifications (preferred qualifications). For Skills, we could combine some of the skill statements into either section; but we risk losing some detail if we don't have a Skills section. However the Minimum Qualifications already includes skill statements; Preferred Qualifications includes more skill-like statements. So we can keep them as Requirements and Qualifications. Benefits: we have a Benefits section later with details: "As an employee, you'll have access to one of the most affordable health insurance plans in Minnesota, along with other benefits..." list includes Paid vacation and sick leave, 12 paid holidays, Low-cost medical, dental, vision, prescription drug plans, Fertility care including IVF, Diabetes care, Dental and orthodontic care for adults and children, 6 weeks paid leave for parents of newborn or newly adopted children, Pension plan, Employer paid life insurance, Short-term and long-term disability insurance, Tax-free expense accounts, Resources that provide support..., Support to help you reach your career goals: Training, classes, professional development, Tuition reimbursement, Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Daily Living/Convenience Services: Chore services, home repair, trip planning, child/elder care, Programs, resources and benefits eligibility varies... This is substantive. So we should include Benefits. Pay: we have Salary Range: $48.44 - $69.21 / hourly; $101,142 - $144,510 / annually. That's specific. So include Pay. Schedule: we have Work Shift/Work Hours: Day Shift, 8:00am - 4:30pm; Days of Work: Monday - Friday; Travel Required: No. Also telework eligibility details. So we can include Schedule. Now we need to format. We must not include Job ID etc as headings; we can fold minor metadata into a short p or drop it. So we could include a short p at top with location, telework, etc? But we might drop them as they are minor metadata. However we need to preserve ALL substantive information; location, telework eligibility, work hours, days, travel, etc are substantive. So we should include them somewhere, maybe in About the role or Schedule. The Schedule section can include work shift, days, travel, telework eligibility. So we can put those there. Thus:

About the role

... (description of role, mission, telework eligibility maybe). We'll include the paragraph about the work you'll do is more than just a job, the state mission, and the telework eligibility details. But we also have a separate paragraph about telework eligibility: "This position is eligible for telework for