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Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Minneapolis, MN · Exec · Part-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
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About the role
- Company Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Bank Overview The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that together form the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States.
- It attracts dedicated professionals who are evaluated on the quality of their thinking and the strength of their judgment.
- The organization respects work-life balance while providing meaningful opportunities to engage fully with the most consequential economic and financial policy questions of the day.
Responsibilities
- Anticipate emerging legal risks - including constitutional, regulatory, employment, payments, technology, and governance matters - and develop proactive approaches to address them, including engagement of outside counsel where appropriate.
- Build bench strength and create meaningful succession within the team, with an eye toward developing the next generation of legal leadership at the Bank.
- Oversee litigation matters, including strategic direction on when to engage, manage, resolve, or escalate, and manage relationships with litigation outside counsel.
- Support ethics culture and compliance across the Bank, serving as a visible role model for integrity and ethical conduct.
Requirements
- Must be licensed to practice in Minnesota, or admitted to the bar of any U.S. state with the ability and commitment to obtain Minnesota bar admission within a reasonable time following the start of the role.
- The role requires a minimum of ten years of progressively responsible legal experience and at least five years of experience managing people.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic legal advice across multiple subject-matter areas.
- Experience advising C-suite executives, boards of directors, or equivalent senior stakeholders.
- resourceful in sourcing expertise and synthesizing it for institutional decision-making.
- Identify when outside expertise is needed, source best-in-class external resources, and translate specialized legal advice into clear institutional guidance.
- Juris Doctor from an ABA-accredited law school. Must be licensed to practice in Minnesota, or admitted to the bar of any U.S. state with the ability and commitment to obtain Minnesota bar admission within a reasonable time following the start of the role.
- Deep public service orientation or mission-driven motivation
- an understanding of and genuine enthusiasm for the Federal Reserve's role in the U.S. economy.
- Key Attributes
- Exceptional judgment and intellectual breadth: Able to advise confidently on familiar ground and identify the boundaries of that ground
- Strategic advisor mindset: Thinks beyond the legal question as presented
- brings a point of view on how legal issues connect to institutional strategy, risk, and mission.
- Executive presence and communication: Credible and compelling with the President, COO, Board of Directors, and peer institutions
- able to communicate complex legal matters with clarity and conviction to both legal and non-legal audiences.
- Mission and values alignment: Committed to public service and the Federal Reserve's mission
Benefits
- Broad Legal Coverage
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