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This position provides professional advice and technical assistance in the area of municipal law and municipal codes to a broad range of customers and groups, including municipalities in the state, state agencies, the Tennessee Municipal League, state legislators, and associations of municipal officials.
In addition to providing direct client assistance, this position researches, develops and maintains timely technical reports and publications on critical issues, develops and teaches training courses, and assists other consultants in the agency in the performance of individual and team projects.
This position will perform other special project work as assigned by the Legal Consulting & Codes Program Manager or the Executive Director.
Duties and Responsibilities:
This consultant provides:
This consultant develops and:
Other duties include researching, drafting, and maintaining publications on critical issues that are geared to various reader levels of sophistication and managerial experience. The consultant is expected to maintain an area (or areas) of specialization and serve as the in-house expert to MTAS staff in that area, such as municipal codes, municipal courts, administrative hearings, land use, personnel law, code enforcement, taxation and state revenues, or zoning.
Required Qualifications:
Education:
Doctoral Degree; Doctor of Jurisprudence
Licensure:
Licensed to practice law by a US state or territory. Required to become licensed to practice law in Tennessee within 18 months of hire.
Experience:
Skills:
Knowledge of municipal law required. Requires practical knowledge of the problems faced by municipal officials. Requires a thorough understanding of Tennessee municipal law and the ability to interpret that law in oral opinions, written opinions, and in publications. A high level of cognitive or intuitive skills are necessary to fully understand, design, and implement successful solutions to municipal legal problems.
Outstanding communications skills are necessary for this position. The consultant must provide advice and assistance to municipal officials in the operation of their respective offices, and must also possess managerial, analytical, conceptual, and interpersonal skills, abilities, and talents. These skills and abilities are used on a daily basis in identifying a specific municipality’s problem and providing the advice and assistance to solve the problem. This requires the ability to write in a manner where complex legal issues are understandable to someone without a legal background.
This position requires travel and requires constant attention to scheduling and updating of work activities.
Proficient ability to research using Westlaw, familiarity with Tennessee Code Annotated, and proficient abilities in using Microsoft Office products are preferred.
Behaviors:
Ability to build relationships, advocate for change, adapt, manage a project, and work in a team environment.
Location:
Nashville, TN
A COVER LETTER, RESUME AND REFERENCES ARE REQUIRED.
This position must be able to travel and be available to deploy for immediate travel to perform job duties. If a private vehicle is used for business related purposes, automobile liability insurance must be maintained.
Applicants are encouraged to review all position requirements prior to applying. Salary is based on a combination of professional experience and qualifications. For best consideration, applications should be submitted by February 26, 2024. Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume with a minimum of three references. Position is open until filled.
Full Time
$99k-132k (estimate)
01/31/2024
05/23/2024
utk.edu
FARRAGUT, TN
7,500 - 15,000
1794
SHERRY BARR
$1B - $3B
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville. Founded in 1794, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate departments and eleven graduate departments and hosts more than 26,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. In its 2009 ranking of universities, U.S. News & World Report ranked UT 118th among national universities and 52nd among public institutions of higher learning. Its ties to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, established under UT President Andrew Holt and con...tinued under the UT-Battelle partnership, have positioned the University as co-manager and allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students enjoyed by few other institutions of comparable standing. Also affiliated with the University are the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, and the University of Tennessee Arboretum, which occupies 250 acres of nearby Oak Ridge, Tennessee and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region. The University is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, the only Level I trauma center in the East Tennessee region and a self-proclaimed 'teaching hospital' due to its aggressive medical research programs and position as the primary career destination for most medical school graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis.
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