- Perform highly complex legal research and prepare written and oral opinions on various legal issues for the Public Safety Departments and apply the research to practical day-to-day operations and/or policing.
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- Serve as legal advisor to GPD Chief, GPD command staff, GFD Chief, GFD command staff, the Buildings, Codes, and Property Maintenance Director and Public Safety Department employees in their professional capacity.
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- Be available outside of customary business hours as needed.
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- Provide sound legal guidance in accordance with laws, regulations, and policies.
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- Present logically organized and clear statements of law and fact.
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- Prepare, review, and draft ordinances, resolutions, and motions.
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- Represent the interest of Public Safety Departments in drafting legislation or contracts.
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- Represent employees of the Public Safety Departments in court as needed and effectively apply legal knowledge and principles in court as needed.
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- Apply the highest level of creative thinking, complex analysis, and reasoning to originate and develop innovative program or production concepts, techniques or procedures which can have a major impact on the nature and quality of programming or operations.
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- Communicate at a superior level verbally and in writing, including capacity to communicate complex ideas compellingly to a variety of audiences.
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- Effectively manage interactions that are generally contentious and involve confidential discussions or situations where conflicting interests are apparent.
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- Effectively handle communications that involve a high degree of difficulty (i.e., contentious confidential sensitive or political) with very diverse, very important contacts both inside and outside of the organization.
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- Use discretion, persuasion, conciliation, dispute resolution, mediation, or negotiation skills when dealing with complex situations.
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- Consult on issues, presenting complex information, explaining analysis and rationale, and making recommendations with the requirement to exercise persuasion to obtain cooperation, consensus, or approval of action to be taken.
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- Maintain effective working relations with City Council, City Manager, Department Directors, City staff, court officials, external attorneys, and the public.
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- Provide training, guidance, and direction to Public Safety Departments and subordinates.
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- Provide supervision, leadership, training, and work direction for assigned staff.
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- At an advanced level write policies, contracts, speeches, formal presentations, and/or technical and legal documents, correspondence and compose emails in a clear and professional manner.
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- At an advanced level read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical journals and procedures, financial reports, legal documents, and governmental regulations as well as literature, books, reviews, reports, and abstracts.
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- Operate general office equipment to include scanner, printer, copier, telephone, and computer with Microsoft Office Suite.
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- Utilize specialized software and systems to include Map-It, Prolaw, and Westlaw.
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