Agency Attorney – Privacy Counsel (Surge Capacity) - 26-01090

Job Title: Agency Attorney – Privacy Counsel (Surge Capacity)

Specialty: Privacy, Data Protection & Cybersecurity
Location: Brooklyn, NY (hybrid – facility details confidential)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days onsite / 2 days remote)
Assignment Duration: 6 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Privacy Counsel to provide surge capacity support for a public-sector privacy program. This role delivers expert legal advice on complex, sensitive, and time-critical privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity matters supporting government-wide initiatives and leadership priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Legal Advice & Counsel

• Provide expert legal guidance on complex privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity matters

• Advise on federal, state, and local privacy laws impacting government agencies and initiatives

• Prepare privacy impact assessments and advise on privacy implications of new technologies and data use initiatives

Policy & Legislation

• Draft, review, and shape privacy-related policies, legislation, and guidance

• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments in privacy and data security and brief stakeholders on impact

Contracts & Agreements

• Draft, review, and negotiate privacy-related legal documents, including:

  • MOUs, NDAs, data-sharing agreements

  • Terms of service and business use cases

  • Multi-agency data integration agreements

Compliance & Training

• Develop policies, templates, guidance materials, and training documentation

• Design and deliver privacy training programs for agency personnel

Stakeholder Engagement & Representation

• Represent senior privacy leadership in interagency, national, and international privacy forums

• Coordinate with executive leadership, legislative bodies, and government stakeholders

• Support public-facing privacy engagement, including panels, publications, and media collaboration (as directed)

Strategic Support

• Prepare legal briefs and provide strategic advice to senior government officials

• Support special projects and priority initiatives as assigned

Mandatory Qualifications

(Candidates lacking mandatory qualifications will not be considered)

• Minimum 12 years of legal experience, including:

  • Government legal experience or

  • Enterprise-level privacy program implementation/support

• Active New York State Bar admission (in good standing)

• Demonstrated, hands-on experience in:

  • Advising on complex U.S. privacy and data security laws (e.g., NYC Identifying Information Law, HIPAA, state breach laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR implications for U.S. entities)

  • Drafting and negotiating privacy-related legal agreements (MOUs, NDAs, data-sharing agreements, MSAs)

  • Developing organizational privacy policies, compliance materials, and guidance

  • Conducting or supporting privacy impact and data protection impact assessments

  • Advising on privacy implications of emerging technologies and digital services

  • Supporting enterprise or large-scale privacy programs

  • Monitoring and analyzing privacy legislation and regulations

Communication & Collaboration Skills

• Proven ability to provide strategic legal advice to senior leadership and government officials

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for legal and non-legal audiences

• Demonstrated success working within interdisciplinary teams (legal, IT, policy, operations)

Certifications

• At least one active IAPP certification required, such as:

  • CIPP/US

  • CIPP/E

  • CIPM

  • CIPT

  • AIGP

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience as:

  • A government attorney (federal, state, or local), or

  • Counsel to government agencies, or

  • In-house counsel within a large, complex, or highly regulated organization