Principal Assistant City Attorney

City of Tucson • Cocoa, FL

3d • $47 - $71 • Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Assistant City Attorney position in the Civil Division of the Tucson City Attorney’s Office provides advanced-level legal services and performs advanced-level legal work in assigned areas of practice. Attorneys at this level work with a high level of autonomy and accountability. Provides guidance and mentoring to lower-level attorney personnel. Work is performed in accordance with general policies and established standards of the legal profession and is reviewed by the City Attorney or their designee. This position does not supervise.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate
• Five (5) years of relevant experience
• Member in good standing with the State Bar of Arizona
• A valid and unrestricted driver’s license with two (2) years of licensed driving is required.

Nice To Haves

• Government law practice: including a working knowledge of the legal subject matter involved with the department to which assignment will be made.
• Experience in the practice of municipal transactional law including the review, negotiation, and drafting of federal and state grant, development, tax incentive, or intergovernmental agreements and other municipal contracts.
• Experience advising governmental leadership or executives on employment, discrimination, and labor matters.
• Experience in the practice of real estate, finance, government contracts and procurement law.
• Experience working with state and federal agencies.
• Municipal civil litigation experience.
• Five (5) years of civil practice

Responsibilities

• Responds to legal inquiries from the City’s executive management team and their staff, typically for assigned City departments.
• Identifies, analyzes and explains legal issues associated with projects and programs of City-wide importance.
• Performs advanced-level professional and administrative legal work including development of and revisions to the Tucson Code.
• Consults with client decision makers regarding departmental and major legal issues.
• Provides legal advice and assistance.
• Prepares and reviews materials submitted to the Mayor and Council for its consideration and approval for legal issues.
• Prepares ordinances or resolutions for consideration by the Mayor and Council.
• Analyzes legal issues associated with initiatives under consideration by the City Manager or Mayor and Council.
• Consults with Mayor and Council and City management at public meetings and in executive sessions as needed.
• Guides and mentors lower-level attorneys.
• Reviews and prepares a variety of legal documents including but not limited to contracts, intergovernmental agreements, legal correspondence, notices and position statements.
• Litigates complex legal matters (in administrative matters; or in federal or state courts) in assigned area of practice, and/or supports litigation efforts in those matters by performing research, preparing and filing pleadings, making court appearances, etc.
• Serves as litigator for the City in State and Federal Courts.
• Identifies, analyzes, and discusses legal issues associated with projects.
• Handles legal matters of assigned departments and acts as liaison with departments, the City Manager, and the Mayor and Council.
• Performs other duties and tasks as assigned.
• Any one position may not include all the duties listed.
• This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA coverage
• pension plan
• optional Roth and pretax deferred compensation savings
• 38 paid days off in the first year of employment
• twelve weeks of paid parental leave
• paid tuition reimbursement
• student loan repayment
• off- and on-the-job training
• opportunities to forge connections with peers and the community through employee resource groups and paid volunteer hours.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal