Associate General Counsel, Healthcare Law

Title: Associate General Counsel, Healthcare Law

Location: Primarily remote; local candidates preferred. Must have the ability to travel onsite to our locations in Massachusetts as needed.
 

Job Overview 

This position responsible for providing strategic legal advice for the health system, including its hospitals, agencies and physician organizations. This position will provide counsel on general healthcare issues, privacy and regulatory matters, and will review, draft and negotiate a wide array of contracts, with a focus on contracts for general goods and services, consulting services, shared and managed services, physician employment agreements, business associate agreements, grants funding, collaboration agreements, data use agreements, and clinical trials, material transfers and research agreements. This position may serve on hospital committees and participate in working groups as needed, providing practical legal guidance on regulatory, contracting, privacy, and operational matters. This position will advise hospital departmental leaders on a range of commercial, legal, privacy and regulatory matters, and will support organizational initiatives and handle special projects and other duties as assigned.

Job Description 

Minimum Qualifications: 

1. Juris Doctorate. 

2. Licensed or eligible to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

3. Five (5) years of legal experience working in the area of healthcare law. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

1. Eight (8) years of legal experience working in the area of healthcare law. 

Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list.  Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned. 

1. Provides expert legal advice and ensures compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to a wide array of healthcare laws and regulations.

2. Manages litigation and dispute resolution to minimize organizational risk.

3. Drafts, reviews, and negotiates contracts.

4. Supports corporate governance practices.

5. Supports policy development and collaborates with external counsel and regulatory agencies.

6. Monitors legal and regulatory changes impacting business operations.

7. Provides strategic legal insights and guidance to senior leadership.

8. Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others by adhering to organizational policies and guidelines, support compliance initiatives, conduct business with honesty, show consistency in words and actions, and follow through on commitments. 

9. Effective consensus builder with strong negotiation, persuasion and communication skills to propose enhancements to operational processes to improve efficiency and/or effectiveness. 

10. Strong advocate for the desired culture in high-level planning and decision making, with a focus on performance accountability and achieving greater operational efficiencies. 

Physical Requirements:  

1. Professional office environment with typical office requirements such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, etc. 

2. This is largely a sedentary role, which involves sitting most of the time, but may involve movements such as walking, standing, reaching, ascending / descending stairs and operate office equipment. 

3. Frequently required to speak, hear, communicate and exchange information. 

4. Able to see and read computers displays, read fine print, and/or normal type size print and distinguish letters, numbers and symbols. 

5. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. 

Skills & Abilities: 

1. Ability to manage heavy workload in a high-pressure environment.  

2. Good communication (oral and written), research and interpersonal skills; must be proactive yet persistent in providing counsel. 

3. Ability to provide sound judgment. 

4. Ability to clearly make reasoned recommendations 

5. Ability to cross think and determine who should be kept informed. 

6. Demonstrated leadership style that emphasizes openness, visibility and connectivity. 

7. Ability to convey the organization’s enthusiasm, confidence, goals, and mission and inspire those things in others. 

8. Able to connect with people in a meaningful way at all levels within the organization. 

9. Energetic, forward-thinking, high ethical standards, and an appropriate professional image with a demonstrated track record in fostering collaboration and building consensus to achieve collective objectives.  

10. Ability to make tough choices