Closing Date: 25th June, 2026
Description:
About This Position:The City of Phoenix Law Department is comprised of two sections, the City Attorney's Office, which handles representing the City in civil matters, and the City Prosecutor's Office, which handles the prosecution of misdemeanor crimes committed in Phoenix.
This Attorney IV primarily supports the Communications Department by managing all aspects of Arizona Public Records Requests, including coordinating the collection of responsive records from multiple departments, reviewing documents, identifying and redacting confidential or exempt information, and ensuring timely, compliant responses. The role provides legal guidance on confidentiality laws, assists with trademark and intellectual property matters, and drafts or reviews communications-related contracts. The attorney also coordinates responses to special actions or legal challenges arising from public records processes and collaborates across departments to ensure consistent legal and communications practices. In addition, the attorney will provide legal counsel to smaller City departments as needed, offering guidance on contracts, ordinances and other legal issues as they arise. This position requires a candidate that demonstrates strong initiative, follow-through, flexibility, and effective cross-departmental collaboration.
Ideal Candidate:
- Experience handling trials, hearings, or administrative proceedings.
- Has a high professional and ethical standing in the legal community.
- Knowledge of municipal law, including open meetings, public records, conflicts, procurement, and liability issues.
Salary:
Pay Range: $126,734.40 - $177,444.80 annually
Hiring Range: $126,734.40 - $168,272.00 annually
Pay Range Explanation:
- Pay range is the entire compensation range for the position classification.
- Hiring range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.
- Promotions occur when the last two digits of the pay grade increase.
- Demotions occur when the last two digits of the pay grade decrease.
- Lateral transfers occur when there is no change to the last two digits of the pay grade.
- When there is a change in the first digit of the pay grade, there may also be a change to your classification or unit.
The pay grade and classification/unit of your current position may be found by looking up your job title on the job description page. (https://www.phoenix.gov/administration/departments/hr/careers/job-descriptions.html)
Benefits:
A comprehensive Middle Manager benefits package is offered which includes:
- Traditional pension with employer and employee contributions, click here for more details: Pension Information (https://www.phoenix.gov/content/dam/phoenix/hrsite/documents/talent-acquisition/Pension%20Information.pdf)
- 401(a) and 457 plans with employer contributions
- Choice of generous medical HMO, PPO, or HSA/HDHP plans
- Medical enrollment includes a monthly $150 City contribution to a Post-Employment Health Plan
- Wellness incentive of up to $720 annually
- Dental, vision, and life insurance options
- Employer paid long-term disability
- Free Bus/light rail pass
- Tuition reimbursement program up to $6,500 per year
- Paid time off includes 13.5 paid holidays, 12 vacation days, and 15 sick days and personal leave days
- Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees up to 480 hours (12 weeks) of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child during a 12-month period
- Federal Student Loan Forgiveness offered through Savi (https://cityofphoenix.bysavi.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NF&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_content=RPPT:na:na:na:na:ERP02123&utm_term=662842.314156&WT.dcsvid=314156)
Minimum Qualifications:
- Four years of experience as a practicing civil or criminal attorney.
- Experience in the practice of municipal law; the review, negotiation, and drafting of contracts or other primary responsibility for participation in transactional work.
- Experience with significant client contact; primary responsibility for civil litigation, and pleading and motion-practice.
- One year of government law practice; and a working knowledge of the legal subject matter involved with the department to which assignment will be made.
- Graduation from an accredited school of law.
- Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
- Admission to the bar of the State of Arizona.
- All finalists for positions are subject to a criminal background check applicable to the department or position.
- For information regarding pre-screening and driving positions, click here.
- The City job description can be found here.
Preferred Qualifications:
The minimum qualifications listed above, plus:
- Experience handling complex, high-volume projects within the legal environment while simultaneously supporting multiple clients.
- Experience with municipal law including public records, procurement and open meeting law.
- Experience drafting and negotiating complicated contracts or other transactional work is also preferred.
Recruitment closes June 25, 2026. All materials must be received by 11:59 p.m. on this date.
This is a position-based recruitment and will not result in any ongoing eligibility list. This recruitment and any selection processes resulting from this recruitment may be used to fill other related vacancies within the organization now or in the near future.
How to Apply:
Apply online by completing the required information and attaching, as one document, your cover letter and resume. Please include your experience as it relates to the qualifications stated above. Only the highest qualified may be posted to the eligible to hire list. The results of the resume screening process will be sent to your primary email address.
