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Assistant General Counsel (Finance)



Job Posting Title

Assistant General Counsel

Agency

455 OK MEDICAL MARIJUANA AUTHORITY

Supervisory Organization

455 Office of General Counsel

Job Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)

March 25, 2023

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Compensation

Based on education and experience.

Job Description

The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) is seeking a full-time Assistant General Counsel. This is a state position governed by the Civil Service Rules, in state government located in Oklahoma City, OK.  OMMA offers a comprehensive benefits packet, including a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents. The annual salary for this position is based on education and experience.  

 

Every position at OMMA brings an opportunity to build out new policies and procedures using innovative and creative problem-solving. With any opportunity, challenges rear their heads. Candidates must be willing to apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to tackle challenges in order to succeed at OMMA. We are an agency that will not settle for status quo or complacency. Candidates must be willing to work hard to help OMMA be the best at what we are entrusted to do.   

  

If this sounds like a challenge you are willing to take on, we look forward to reviewing your application! 

Basic Purpose

The Assistant General Counsel will be dedicated to ensuring effective implementation of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority's laws and administrative rules.  The lawyer will assume all functions of planning, organizing and monitoring legal activities; interpreting laws and regulations; and providing legal advice, counsel and assistance to OMMA.

Position Responsibilities /Essential Functions

The specific functions of this position vary, but may include the following: 

  • Serves as point person for OMMA staff inquiries and inquiries from OMMA licensees and the public.  This includes evaluating complex legal issues and providing advice, counsel, and assistance regarding legal matters.  
  • Plays a critical role in evaluating and drafting proposed agency rules and draft legislation. 
  • Assists the OMMA Compliance Manager to carryout compliance processes including but not limited to investigations, notices, and administrative proceedings.
  • Ensures that laws, rules and compliance procedures are clearly communicated across OMMA personnel within a prescribed timeframe. 
  • Analyzes complex factual and legal issues and prepares legal opinions, briefs, pleadings, and other legal documents. 
  • Exercises responsibility for the development, preparation, and presentation of cases before administrative, state, federal, and appellate courts.  
  • Performs legal research and reports findings and conclusions. 
  • Advises on questions of law or administrative policy involved in the operation of OMMA and its contacts with industry, private or professional associations, local, state, and federal government, and the general public. 
  • Works in a high-performance environment, presented with multiple tasks and competing timeframes to produce results under relatively, high-pressure and high-sensitivity situations.  
  • Performs related work as assigned. 

Education and Experience

  • Graduation from an accredited law school. 
  • Licensed to practice law in the State of Oklahoma. 
  • One to five years legal experience as a licensed attorney preferred. 

Valued Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge of legal principles and their application; of legal research methods; of the scope of Oklahoma laws and provisions of the Oklahoma Constitution, of the United States Constitution, of the principles of administrative law; of trial and hearing procedures. 

Skill in directing and/or performing independent and difficult research; in analyzing, appraising and applying legal principles, facts and precedents to difficult legal or factual problems; in communicating effectively both orally and in writing; in presenting statements of fact, law, and argument clearly and logically in written or oral form; in presenting, explaining, or arguing cases to administrative bodies, administrative law judges, or courts; in dictating correspondence involving the explanation of difficult legal matters. 

    Physical Demands and Work Environment

    Work is typically performed in an office setting with a climate-controlled settings and exposure to moderate noise level. While performing the duties of the job, employee is required to talk, stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.  This position requires long period of sitting and daily use of computer and phone.     

    PLEASE NOTE: You are ineligible for OMMA employment if you are: an individual that has a direct or indirect interest in a licensed medical marijuana business; an individual who has or whose spouse, parent, child, spouse of a child, sibling, or spouse of a sibling has an application for a medical marijuana business license pending before the Department; a member of the board of directors of a medical marijuana business; or an individual financially interested in any licensee or medical marijuana business.

    Equal Opportunity Employment

    The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

    Current State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions through their Workday account. Go to Careers app on WD home screen>Click on 'Find Jobs-Internal State of Oklahoma'.

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