Description:
About Georgia TechGeorgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
- Students are our top priority.
- We strive for excellence.
- We thrive on diversity.
- We celebrate collaboration.
- We champion innovation.
- We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
- We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
- We act ethically.
- We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
Job Summary:
The Associate General Counsel is an individual contributor attorney role serving as the first tier into strategic legal leadership. This position focuses on leading through deep subject-matter expertise and taking ownership of high-impact legal matters, rather than through direct management of personnel. The Assistant General Counsel provides sophisticated legal guidance, spearheads compliance initiatives, and shapes institutional policies.
Responsibilities:
Job Duty 1 -
Lead provision of sophisticated legal advice on high-impact, institution-wide legal, regulatory, and compliance issues.
Job Duty 2 -
Own and drive enterprise-wide legal risk management and mitigation strategies for significant institutional matters.
Job Duty 3 -
Lead negotiation and drafting of complex, high-value contracts, institutional policies, and governance documents.
Job Duty 4 -
Interpret evolving laws and regulatory changes, providing strategic guidance to leadership on legal implications and institutional responses.
Job Duty 5 -
Represent the institution in complex legal proceedings, negotiations, and regulatory interactions, managing external counsel as needed.
Job Duty 6 -
Monitor and forecast legislative, regulatory, and industry trends to inform and influence institutional strategy and policy development.
Job Duty 7 -
Lead the design and implementation of institution-wide legal education and compliance initiatives.
Job Duty 8 -
Provide thought insight on emerging legal issues, ethical standards, and best practices to shape institutional policies.
Job Duty 9 -
Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to resolve complex legal challenges and lead strategic initiatives.
Job Duty 10 -
Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
Educational requirements:
Juris Doctorate from an accredited school
Other Required Qualifications
Member of the Georgia Bar or ability to become licensed to practice law in Georgia within twelve months of hire.
Required Experience:
8+ years of relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
Proposed Salary
Proposed Salary: $140,211 - $175,00. Commensurate with education and experience.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
Skills:
This job requires professionally advanced knowledge of the law, especially as applied within a higher education and research oriented environment. Such knowledge shall be in a particular area of the law that is essential to the function of the Institution. Additionally, the ability to communicate effectively with tact and diplomacy are required as are skills in negotiation, strategy development, multi-tasking and relationship building. Use of office and legal related computer applications is required. The person in this position will be expected to work at the highest professional level with integrity, judgment and attention to detail and work as a contributing member of the legal team.
USG Core Values
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.
Lead provision of sophisticated legal advice on high-impact, institution-wide legal, regulatory, and compliance issues.
Job Duty 2 -
Own and drive enterprise-wide legal risk management and mitigation strategies for significant institutional matters.
Job Duty 3 -
Lead negotiation and drafting of complex, high-value contracts, institutional policies, and governance documents.
Job Duty 4 -
Interpret evolving laws and regulatory changes, providing strategic guidance to leadership on legal implications and institutional responses.
Job Duty 5 -
Represent the institution in complex legal proceedings, negotiations, and regulatory interactions, managing external counsel as needed.
Job Duty 6 -
Monitor and forecast legislative, regulatory, and industry trends to inform and influence institutional strategy and policy development.
Job Duty 7 -
Lead the design and implementation of institution-wide legal education and compliance initiatives.
Job Duty 8 -
Provide thought insight on emerging legal issues, ethical standards, and best practices to shape institutional policies.
Job Duty 9 -
Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to resolve complex legal challenges and lead strategic initiatives.
Job Duty 10 -
Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
Educational requirements:
Juris Doctorate from an accredited school
Other Required Qualifications
Member of the Georgia Bar or ability to become licensed to practice law in Georgia within twelve months of hire.
Required Experience:
8+ years of relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- Skills in specialty area(s) of legal practice. Legal experience in a large public research university or state government.
- Experience advising clients on complex regulatory, compliance, and legal risk matters.
- Experience representing or advising organizations in connection with federal agency investigations, audits, enforcement actions, or other government inquiries.
- Experience handling matters involving the False Claims Act, federal grant and contract requirements, research compliance, or other regulatory frameworks applicable to federally funded organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice that enables organizational objectives while managing legal and compliance risks.
- Experience partnering with executive leadership and senior decision-makers on high-impact legal, regulatory, compliance, and strategic matters.
- Experience developing risk-based solutions to complex legal and operational challenges involving multiple stakeholders.
- Experience managing litigation, government investigations, or disputes involving external counsel, regulators, or government agencies.
- Strong record of translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into actionable guidance, policies, procedures, and training.
- Experience advising large, complex organizations, public entities, institutions of higher education, research institutions, or other highly regulated environments.
- Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships across business, compliance, audit, research, finance, and operational functions to address enterprise-wide issues.
Proposed Salary
Proposed Salary: $140,211 - $175,00. Commensurate with education and experience.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
Skills:
This job requires professionally advanced knowledge of the law, especially as applied within a higher education and research oriented environment. Such knowledge shall be in a particular area of the law that is essential to the function of the Institution. Additionally, the ability to communicate effectively with tact and diplomacy are required as are skills in negotiation, strategy development, multi-tasking and relationship building. Use of office and legal related computer applications is required. The person in this position will be expected to work at the highest professional level with integrity, judgment and attention to detail and work as a contributing member of the legal team.
USG Core Values
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.