Legal Advisor, Impartial Hearing Order Implementation Unit (L3) - 16806

Responsibilities

• Reviews cases involving large amounts of money, significant precedents, novel and complicated determinations of law and fact, or cases having significant legal, policy or financial implications for the City.
• Conducts difficult and involved meetings and conferences on behalf of the Unit.
• Analyzes, studies and reports on the implementation compliance.
• Liaises with New York City Law Department in court actions pertaining to implementation.
• Makes recommendations for appeal, as appropriate.
• Maintains and updates data reports and researches legal issues as needed.
• Monitors implementation of impartial hearing orders and decisions and case status to ensure that all ordered entitlements are processed, continued, and finalized at the appropriate time.
• Interprets impartial hearing orders and determine actions necessary to implement required obligations.
• Monitors status of potential appeals to the State Review Officer (SRO).
• Interprets Individualized Educational Programs (IEPs) and other Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) documents to determine pending entitlements and other required actions, including whether pendency claim should be legally and/or factually contested referred for a hearing.
• Provides counsel and training to staff in the Impartial Hearing Order Implementation Unit, implementation liaisons and other NYCPS employees, as appropriate, on implementation procedures.
• Identifies patterns in hearing decisions and NYCPS performance in order to address system-wide issues and obstacles to implementation.
• Acts as liaison with executives within the agency and with other City agencies.

Qualifications

• Admission to the New York State Bar; and either 2 or 3 below:
• One year of satisfactory United States legal experience subsequent to admission to any state bar;
• Six months of satisfactory service as an Agency Attorney Intern (30086).
• To be assigned to AL III candidates must have two years of experience in Assignment Levels I and/or II or three years of comparable legal experience subsequent to admission to the bar, in the areas of law related to the assignment.

Salary

$106,607 - $111,107

(Internal candidates who are selected for this position and who currently hold comparable or less senior positions within the DOE will not earn less than their current salary.)

Benefits

Please include a resume and cover letter with your application.

Note: The filling of all positions is subject to budget availability and/or grant funding.

* New York City Residency is NOT Required

We encourage all applicants from the New York City tri-state area to apply.