Chief Campus Counsel and Labor Designee

Chief Campus Counsel and Labor Designee

The CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY SoM) located in the heart of Harlem, New York, is the only medical school in the City University of New York system and the only public medical school in Manhattan. Building upon 50 years of success as the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, the institution transitioned to the CUNY School of Medicine (SoM) in 2016.

The CUNY SoM offers an accelerated BS/MD degree (7-year program) and a Physician Assistant Master’s Degree (27 months program). True to its legacy of access, opportunity, and community transformation, the medical school’s mission remains to recruit highly talented students as diverse as New York City itself. CUNY SoM places a special emphasis on the recruitment of those who are underrepresented in the field of medicine and on training high quality, culturally competent health professionals and scientists equipped to address the healthcare needs of New York’s medically under‑served communities.

As a major priority, CUNY SoM also seeks to enhance the recruitment and retention of senior leadership, faculty, and staff to more closely reflect the diversity of our student body.

The CUNY School of Medicine (the "Medical School") is seeking a Chief Campus Counsel and Labor Designee. This is a highly specialized full‑time position that reports directly to the Dean and will work collaboratively with oversight from the CUNY Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs and General Counsel ("OGC") on the legal affairs of the Medical School. The Chief Campus Counsel and Labor Designee will provide legal and labor advice on issues relating to labor and employment, student affairs, financial matters, a broad‑spectrum contracts and procurement, ethics, litigation, compliance, corporate affiliations, public safety, school governance, and immigration and residency.

A senior member of the Dean’s Cabinet, the Chief Campus Counsel will provide counsel to the Dean, Senior and Associate Deans, the Executive Director of Human Resources, the Chief Diversity Officer on the School’s behalf.

The Chief Campus Counsel and Labor Designee will work within a growing and dynamic Medical School. By providing exceptional service, the Chief Campus Counsel and Labor Designee will ensure that CUNY MED complies with applicable federal, state, and local employment laws, Board of Trustee By‑Laws, Manual of General Policy, CUNY personnel rules and regulations, pertinent collective bargaining agreements as well as pertinent regulatory, compliance, and accreditation standards associated with medical education and healthcare.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing timely and accurate provision of legal advice and counsel to the Dean, senior leadership, administrators, or others to take particular actions on behalf of the School, including providing advice and counsel on the conduct of councils, senates and groups, subject to the school or college governance plans and the Open Meetings Law of the State of New York.
• Serving as a resource for ethics guidance, informed decision‑making and creative problem solving;
  Educating and training School personnel and Campus Counsel to ensure the School is in compliance with municipal, state and federal law and regulations, and University policies to proactively reduce the risks of litigation and exposure to liability.
• Coordinating, supervising and overseeing all legal services for the School (governance, employment/labor, student affairs, regulatory compliance, public safety, athletics, financial matters, contracts, intellectual property and technology transfer, arbitrations and mediations), and representing the School in state and national discussions of legal issues concerning higher education and medical education;
• Advising the Dean and senior leadership on matters involving Title II, VI, VII, and IX, Department Chair advisory committees upon request;
  Assist the Public Safety Office on matters involving the interpretation of laws regarding the enforcement and reporting of violations of law, both civil and criminal, including compliance and reporting of…