Deputy General Counsel

Job Requisition ID: 48695 
Closing Date: 08/15/2025
​Agency: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Class Title: PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR - 37015 
Skill Option: Special License - Illinois Law License 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary $8,281
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Sangamon
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: None
Merit Comp Code: Excluded - Subject to Paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (6) of Section 4d of the Personnel Code

 

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Posting Identification Number 48695

 

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Position Overview

Join A World Class Institution!! This position serves as the Deputy General Counsel for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM), a world class institution that welcomes more than 250,000 visitors every year and that houses one of the world’s best collections of Lincoln-related documents, artifacts and audiovisual materials The incumbent will have a thorough understanding and experience in all aspects of legal research and analysis. The ideal candidate will be detailed oriented and possess a good working knowledge of personnel and contractual law, as well as experience with FOIA, ADA, Illinois Ethics law, and procurement. We invite qualified applicants to apply for this position and help ALPLM continue to chronicle the life of one of our nation's greatest Presidents.

Essential Functions

• Serves as the principal legal advisor to the Chief Legal Counsel for the ALPLM
• Managers, develops, plans, directs, coordinates and reviews the organization and administration of new and existing programs, operations and functions. 
• As Deputy General Counsel for the Agency, responsible for all legal activities affecting the Agency.
• Serves as an official spokesperson for the agency representing the Executive Director and/or the Chief Legal Counsel at various internal and external meetings, often of a sensitive and confidential nature, possessing significant independent authority
• Plans, evaluates, develops and validates programs, standards. policies, methods, techniques and procedures and assists in implementation.
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates agency leases with various entities, i.e. concession leases, interagency agreements, Memorandums of Understanding, farm leases, etc.
• Supports the Chief Legal Counsel in their role as the Agency Ethics Officer; administers the policy and procedures applicable to the Employees' Ethics Acts to all agency employees.
• Designs, conducts, and coordinates investigations into allegations of employee misconduct, and necessary background checks both internally and externally subject to appropriate laws and regulations.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires graduation from an accredited school of law and possession of a valid license to practice law in Illinois.
• Requires four (4) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a public or business