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Position Overview:
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Are you looking for a new opportunity where you can make the difference in the lives of students and faculty? We're always looking for highly talented individuals to join our team – people who think big, care deeply, and believe in being the difference in their work and community.

We prioritize student success, access to education, and service in our work to educate well-rounded servant leaders who transform their fields, our society and the world. Our Catholic, Jesuit approach emphasizes student engagement with the world around them and formation of the heart and mind.

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This is your next opportunity to join an organization that invests in their employees' career journey by diversifying their skills, deepening their expert knowledge, encouraging a healthy work-life balance, focusing on personal wellbeing, providing leadership training, and sustaining a culture of respect and inclusion.

The Associate General Counsel works in close collaboration with the Vice President General Counsel and other university attorneys to provide strategic, timely, and practical legal advice to Marquette University on a broad range of higher education legal matters. The Associate General Counsel will use their advanced legal expertise to focus on certain practice areas based upon institutional needs and as work is allocated across the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), which may include, but is not limited to: labor and employment law matters; regulatory and nonprofit compliance; contract drafting and review; intercollegiate athletics; dispute and litigation management; sponsored research and intellectual property; real estate; institutional governance; and strategic legal counsel on all matters arising from university operations, including the development, interpretation, and implementation of institutional policies and procedures in alignment with the university's mission.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide strategic, legal advice (written and verbal) to university leaders, faculty, and staff regarding a wide range of university and higher-education matters, spanning multiple legal disciplines.
Monitor, research, and communicate emerging legal developments and trends arising from federal, state, and local laws, agency guidance, NCAA rules and regulations, and case law affecting higher education institutions, including Division I athletics programs. Prepare related risk assessments, memoranda, briefings, guidance tools, presentations, training, and other legal work product that are mission-aligned to drive compliance and mitigate risks.
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, memorandum of understanding, licenses, leases, sponsored agreements, vendor agreements, affiliation and collaborations agreements, and athletics agreements, as well as policies and procedures, regulatory filings, and other university documents with legal implications.
Handle, represent and/or oversee investigation, dispute, and litigation matters involving the university, including administrative proceedings, due process hearings, employment disputes, and student-related matters, in coordination with other university stakeholders and outside counsel, as applicable.
Collaborate with public affairs, risk management, Title IX office, Marquette University Police Department, human resources, finance, and other university constituents to identify emerging areas of risk and develop legally sound, operationally effective, and mission-aligned solutions.
Optimize the delivery of legal services to the university by managing outside counsel for quality and cost efficiency, improving internal OGC processes and workflows, and advancing operational and technology initiatives that strengthen service, responsiveness, and overall effectiveness in support of university strategies.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Must have a Juris Doctor from an ABA-accredited law school and be a current member in good standing of the Wisconsin Bar or another state's bar and ability to become licensed in the State of Wisconsin within 6 months of hire.
A minimum of seven years of general counsel experience.
Proven track record of providing high quality counsel on a broad array of legal matters including highly complex and novel issues.
Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to clearly articulate complicated information; active listening to uncover nuances.
Demonstrated skills developing strong partnerships across an organization; ability to work in a highly collaborative environment with diverse stakeholders.
Advanced legal research and analysis skills to inform advice; creative problem solving and ability to effectively manage ambiguity.
Ability to manage and prioritize work effectively and independently.
Intellectual curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset to seek out and apply best practices – for self and the overall unit.
Motivated to assume a significant level of responsibility and to confidently represent the university's interests to internal and external parties.
Ability to represent and promote the University's mission and guiding values.
Demonstrated professionalism to work effectively with officials and executives in government, business, and educational organizations.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Previous legal experience in higher education or non-profit organization.