Senior Legal Counsel

Job Summary

The Senior Legal Counsel – Enterprise Strategic Initiatives provides legal leadership and counsel for high-priority strategic initiatives involving the health system and its affiliate entities. This attorney partners with executive leadership, the in-house Project Management Office (PMO), strategy, business development, finance, operations, clinical leadership, and other internal stakeholders to advance growth, transformation, and enterprise-wide priorities. Supports initiatives such as pediatric healthcare affiliations, facility development, and other strategic projects.

Manages legal matters from initial planning through implementation, including structuring, regulatory analysis, due diligence, negotiation, documentation, governance approval, and post-transaction to operationalization support. This role requires on-premises work at the Health System's Miami offices (both CHQ and Miami hospital) 2-3 days per week as determined by operational needs.

• Serve as a principal legal advisor on strategic initiatives affecting the health system and the affiliate entities and provide legal support for health system affiliations, collaborations, facility development and expansion, and other strategic, growth and enterprise transformation initiatives and transactions.
• Provide legal leadership for enterprise strategic initiative projects. This includes but is not limited to: a) Participate as the Legal Department representative on cross-functional project teams, steering committees, and internal work groups and partner with executive sponsors, project managers, project leads, and workstream leaders to identify legal issues, establish responsibilities, manage deliverables, and resolve barriers to project completion. b) Collaborate directly with project leads and legal representatives from counter parties, affiliates, and other organizations involved in strategic initiatives;
  
  facilitate communication among internal stakeholders, external organizations, consultants, and legal teams to support informed decision-making and maintain project momentum. c) Establish and maintain a close working relationship with the health system’s in-house PMO to coordinate legal work with project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and implementation activities. d) Support the transition of completed initiatives from transaction or project teams to operational owners and assist with post-closing integration, implementation, compliance monitoring, and resolution of operational issues.
• Develop legal strategies that support organizational objectives for enterprise strategic initiatives while appropriately addressing legal, regulatory, financial, operational, and reputational risks. Counsel executive leadership, strategy leaders, and operational teams on the legal and regulatory implications of proposed transactions and initiatives.
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex agreements, including affiliation agreements, purchases services and asset purchase agreements, leases, management services agreements, clinical services agreements, technology agreements, and other strategic contracts.
• Assist with corporate governance matters (e.g., draft and review resolutions, minutes and board presentations, assist with bylaws review and interpretation) related to enterprise strategic initiatives; attend board or committee meetings upon request of the SVP & General Counsel.
• Direct and manage outside legal counsel based on the scope, complexity, subject matter, and strategic importance of each initiative. This includes, but is not limited to, defining outside counsel responsibilities, deliverables, timelines and staffing expectations, and management of legal expenses.
• Support development, drafting, and…