Role OverviewThe Director of the Enforcement Unit will oversee the Enforcement Unit and handle administrative litigation that ensures citywide compliance with public health laws and regulations. The Enforcement Unit addresses some of the most urgent public health enforcement challenges facing New York City, including prosecuting childcare providers whose practices endanger children, enforcing food safety requirements at restaurants, issuing disease surveillance orders in connection with outbreaks, and ensuring that dog owners comply with recommended control measures following dangerous dog incidents.
What You Will Do
The Director of the Enforcement Unit will represent the agency at hearings, conferences, and trials before the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH). This includes performing all areas of case management, researching and preparing briefs, appeals, orders, motions, legal opinions, memoranda, and other legal papers related to enforcement cases.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate will have strong written and oral advocacy skills, knowledge of administrative or regulatory law, and the ability to negotiate settlements with opposing counsel. Prior experience managing and training attorneys on administrative/OATH trials and hearings is a plus.
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 which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work
Benefits
- Premium-free health insurance plan
- Additional health, fitness, and financial benefits
- Public sector defined benefit pension plan
- Tax-deferred savings program
- Robust Worksite Wellness Program
- Loan Forgiveness
- Job Security
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