CalPERS · 9 hours ago
Attorney IV
Sacramento, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$11,993/mo - $16,196/mo
5+ years expCalPERS, the nation’s largest public pension fund, is seeking an Attorney IV in the Pension & Tax Unit. The role involves advising on complex legal issues related to pension and employee benefits, researching legal opinions, and collaborating with various divisions to ensure compliance and effective legal strategies.
AssociationGovernmentHealth CareOffice AdministrationRetirement
No H1B
Responsibilities
Advising staff on a variety of difficult and complex legal issues relating to CalPERS program divisions, including, but not limited to, Customer Services and Support, Benefit Services, Financial Office, Pension Contracts and Prefunding Programs, Actuarial Office, Office of Audit Services, Public Affairs, Legislative Affairs, and Strategy, Projects & Data Divisions
Advising clients on matters of difficult and complex governmental law, including Constitutional and statutory interpretation, pension and employee benefit law, federal tax law, administrative law, open meeting law, public records requests, and fiduciary principles
Researching and writing difficult and complex formal and informal legal opinions for specific program areas
Ensuring opinions are timely, accurate and complete, and presents alternative courses of action and analysis of those alternatives where appropriate, with a recommendation
Conferring with system management, staff, and others to gather necessary background, interpretation, and context of issues and facts presented in opinion requests
Keeping clients informed of the status of all assignments
Keeping the General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel and Associate General Counsel informed on the status of all significant issues
Reviewing and approving critical correspondence and other critical documents
Drafting critical documents and representing the system on a variety of difficult and complex legal issues
Providing informal or oral advice to system management and staff on a variety of program-specific legal issues, as needed
Evaluating difficult and complex state and federal legislation to determine the potential impact on CalPERS, including assisting in the preparation of bill analyses, drafting legislation, and recommending amendments
Working closely with the Executive Office on Special Projects, such as legal analysis for pension-related and tax issues and high-profile matters
Qualification
Required
All experience and education relating to the Minimum Qualifications (MQs) listed on the Classification Specification should be included in your application package to clearly demonstrate how you meet the MQs for this position
If you are using education to meet MQs, please include your transcripts with your application package
If you have a degree from outside of the United States, you must submit an evaluation of this degree to determine the US equivalency
You may need to pass an examination to establish list eligibility prior to a final offer of employment
Applicants must meet the Minimum Qualifications stated in the Classification Specification(s)
Preferred
Resume is optional. It may be included, but is not required
Benefits
Competitive benefit packages
Retirement and health benefits
Company
CalPERS
They administer health and retirement benefits on behalf of more than 3,000 public school, local agency and State employers.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Michael Cohen
Chief Operating Investment Officer/Chief of Staff, Investment Office
Shari Slate
Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
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