The Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) is the largest Fire Department in the United States and universally is recognized as the world's busiest and most highly skilled emergency response agency. The Department's main goal is to provide fire protection, emergency medical care, and other critical public safety services to residents and visitors in the five boroughs. FDNY members are sworn to serve and protect life and property and the Department works to continually educate the public in fire, life safety and disaster preparedness, along with enforcing public safety codes. Since its inception in 1865, FDNY has helped lead efforts to make New York the safest big city in the nation. This accomplishment requires a steadfast and daily commitment to maintaining the Department's core values.

The Fire Department, City of New York (FDNY), seeks a full-time Executive Agency Counsel, M-2 in the Bureau of Equal Employment Opportunity. The Fire Department, City of New York (FDNY), seeks a highly adaptable and results driven leader to fill the position of Director in the Bureau of Equal Employment Opportunity. This position reports to the Assistant Commissioner and requires expertise in the field of labor and employment law, the ability to exercise substantial discretion and judgment, and the confidence to make impactful, time-sensitive decisions in a fast paced 17,000+ member workplace. The successful candidate will be responsible for the day to day management of the bureau's mission critical-compliance functions: internal EEO investigations, advising and counseling senior leadership and managers, delivering training, and processing employee requests for workplace accommodation. The Director will directly oversee internal investigations conducted by attorneys to ensure that they are completed in a timely manner while adhering to workplace investigation best practices at each critical step, including: receiving and triaging employee complaints, formulating investigation plans, tracking witness interviews and evidence collection, building and documenting factual records, and applying the appropriate legal standards to come to legally sound conclusions. The ability to write clearly and concisely and edit attorney work product of is an essential requirement of this position. In addition to overseeing each case, the Director will review large scale data related to bureau workflow to ensure effective fulfillment of bureau functions. The Director will oversee the reasonable accommodation process, including engaging in the interactive process and issuing decisions to employee requests. The Director will have significant employee facing contact, and provide advice.

EXECUTIVE AGENCY COUNSEL - 95005

Minimum Qualifications

Admission to the New York State Bar; and 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.

Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.

Preferred Skills

- The organizational ability to effectively manage multiple large scale projects to completion - The ability to work independently or across bureaus with stakeholders of various ranks - Experience supervising practicing attorneys - Experience litigating labor and employment matters - The ability to effectively work within a first responder or paramilitary organization - Experience serving a unionized workforce - Systems design, review, and modification to maximize workflow efficiency and effectiveness - Accurate data capture, collection, organization and reporting - Experience with the full range of Microsoft tools, including Word, Access and Excel. - Ability to serve in an "on call" capacity for a department that operates continuously.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

Residency Requirement

New York City Residency is not required for this position.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

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