Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel , Labor Immigration

Req #:

Category:
Senior Leadership (VP+)

Status:
Full-Time

Shift: Day

Facility: RWJBarnabas Health Corporate Services

Department:
General Counsel Office

Pay Range: $ - $ per year

Location:

95 Old Short Hills Road, West Orange, NJ 07052

Job Title:

Senior Vice President

Location:

SBC Corporation

Department Name:
General Counsel Office

Req #:

Status:
Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $ - $ per year

Pay Transparency:
The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey. The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey's largest nonprofit academic health system, seeks a Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel to lead the enterprise employment, labor, benefits, immigration, workforce investigations, and workforce compliance legal function. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, this executive serves as the system's senior legal authority on workforce matters, advising executive leadership and the Board while leading a team of employment, labor, benefits, and immigration attorneys.

The role combines sophisticated legal judgment with business partnership in a highly regulated, unionized, 24/7 healthcare environment.

As Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel – Employment, Labor, Benefits & Immigration, a typical day might include the following:

• Advising senior executives and HR leaders on complex, high-risk workforce matters, including employee relations, executive employment agreements, accommodations, disciplinary actions, terminations, and workforce restructuring.
• Leading enterprise labor strategy by partnering with HR and operational leaders on collective bargaining, union negotiations, arbitrations, NLRB matters, organizing activity, and labor implications of operational changes.
• Overseeing sensitive workforce investigations involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, executive misconduct, and other high-risk employee matters, ensuring appropriate privilege, documentation, and remediation.
• Providing strategic counsel on benefits and compensation including ERISA compliance, executive compensation, retirement and health plans, plan changes, fiduciary matters, and Compensation Committee activities.
• Guiding immigration and global mobility strategy for physicians, researchers, and other international talent, overseeing visa sponsorship, permanent residency, I-9/E-Verify compliance, audits, and external immigration counsel.
• Monitoring and mitigating workforce legal and regulatory risk across areas such as wage-and-hour, EEO, OSHA, pay transparency, employee classification, leave, accommodations, screening, and licensure requirements.
• Leading and developing the workforce legal team by setting priorities, managing outside counsel and legal spend, establishing risk metrics and reporting, providing legal training, and serving as a strategic member of the Chief Legal Officer’s leadership team.

• You bring deep expertise advising complex, highly regulated organizations on sophisticated employment and labor law matters.
• You have significant experience supporting unionized work forces, including collective bargaining, NLRB proceedings, arbitrations, organizing activity, and labor strategy.
• You excel at navigating high-stakes workforce matters, from executive employment issues and investigations to litigation, restructurings, and sensitive employee relations matters.
• You are a trusted advisor to senior executives and Boards, with the judgment and discretion to navigate complex,…