Borough Chief - New York City, NY
2 days ago
Job description
Job Description
THE SELECTED CANDIDATE(S) WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $179, $223,299
The Administration for Children's Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports.
The Division of Family Court Legal Services (FCLS) is primarily responsible for representing the Administration for Children's Services in child neglect and abuse cases, permanency hearings, juvenile delinquency hearings and other child welfare proceedings in the five Family Courts.
FCLS attorneys work collaboratively with ACS Child Protective Specialists (CPS), foster care agency case planners and other ACS staff and child welfare stakeholders to further the agency's mission on behalf of children, youth and families.
Under executive direction with wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment, initiative and decision, will serve as the Staten Island Family Court Legal Service's Borough Chief.
The Borough Chief will lead the borough's management team and be involved with the overall management and leadership of the borough's law office.
The Borough Chief will be responsible for:
- Providing direct supervision to attorneys of all levels, including Deputy Borough Chiefs and junior attorney staff
- Providing direct supervision of non-attorney staff
- Oversight of the administrative needs of the office
- Screening cases for intake
- Providing legal counsel to ACS program areas
- Representing ACS at meetings with stakeholders and family court personnel
- Providing training to attorneys and case work staff and consulting with other program area managers on case deferrals and settlements
- Advising and making recommendations on questions of law, fact and administrative policy
- Ensuring staff are current on case law and agency policy
- Ensuring that court actions are consistent with the law and ACS policy
- Managing Deputy Borough Chiefs to ensure they are providing appropriate supervision to the subordinate staff on all aspects of litigation including but not limited to preparing and arguing appeals
- Meeting and working regularly with his/her counterparts from other boroughs and with the Deputy and Associate Commissioners of the Division of Child Protection as well as Foster Care Agency and Close to Home Providers
- Managing the senior attorney staff to litigate complex and very difficult cases on behalf of the Commissioner
- Responding to agency needs on an emergency basis during and outside of business hours
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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.
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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