Closing Date: 6th October, 2025
Description:
Job Overview:OGC is seeking a senior associate counsel to add to its growing team of 22 attorneys. This is an exciting opportunity for an attorney looking to join a mission driven team focused on delivering quality work while enjoying an excellent work-life balance. If you love a new challenge each day and want to feel like you are making a difference in Tennessee, this could be the career move for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide legal advice to, and draft legal opinions for, TDEC regulatory and/or conservation divisions, developing a deep understanding of the client's operations and legal needs, which may include enforcement, permitting, real estate transactions, contracts, public records, open meetings, and historic preservation.
- Handle administrative appeals and work with the Tennessee Attorney General's Office on referred cases.
- Draft and review documents relative to TDEC procurements, grants, land transactions, concessionaire relationships, and marketing.
- Review proposed legislation, draft rules, and draft policies.
- Support boards and commissions attached to TDEC.
- Collaborate with other attorneys within TDEC.
- Handle special projects quickly and efficiently.
Minimum Qualifications:
This position requires a Tennessee law license and a minimum of five years of experience as an attorney.
Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.