Description:
Position Overview:Are you looking for a fast-paced, influential legal position handling a broad range of employment law matters, such as counseling HR professionals, executives and managers, leading sensitive internal investigations, resolving thorny employment disputes, and proactively managing systemic employment law risk? We are searching for an experienced and talented employment lawyer to join this highly collaborative employment law team in A Public Government-Sponsored Enterprise Legal Division. Apply now, and learn about our excellent benefits and why there's #A Public Government-Sponsored Enterprise!
Your Impact:
In this role, you will:
- Counsel HR professionals, executives, and people managers on a broad range of employment law issues, including hiring, compensation, promotion, performance management, disability and religious accommodations, leave, corrective action, reductions-in-force, terminations, severance pay, and employment policies.
- Use your employment law expertise, good judgment and common sense to develop creative, effective solutions to often complex employment problems, issues and challenges.
- Provide guidance to employee relations staff managing ER workstreams on a day-to-day basis.
- Investigate employee complaints of violations of A Public Government-Sponsored Enterprise policy or applicable law. Activities will include interviewing witnesses, gathering and reviewing relevant documents, analyzing and synthesizing the information gathered to determine the facts, assessing witness credibility, preparing a concise investigation report, making recommendations to management for remedial action, updating the case tracking system and assisting with reporting and analytics.
- Develop and facilitate interactive, scenario-based employment law training and other briefings and communications for people managers and other employees.
- Proactively identify enhancements to employment law processes and practices
Qualifications:
- JD degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant employment law experience
- Detailed understanding of federal, state & local employment laws
- Advanced workplace investigations skills
- Flawless objectivity and integrity
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to influence
- Experience advising, counseling and making recommendations to management on a broad range of HR related matters
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Strong work ethic
- Sound legal judgment
- Creative problem solving
- Ability to manage multiple matters on a timely basis
- Collaborative & collegial in working with others; calm demeanor
- Proactive identification of employment law issues and risks
- High emotional intelligence
