Senior Attorney Advisor

New York University: NYU - NY: School of Law: Tax Law Center

**Location**:

- See position description.

**Open Date**:

- Oct 28, 2024

**Description**:
The Tax Law Center at the NYU School of Law is seeking one or more full-time Senior Attorney Advisors to work closely with the Executive Director to contribute to rigorous, high-impact tax legal work in the public interest.

You are an attorney with significant experience in the federal tax policy making process and a deep commitment to advancing racial and economic equity through taxation. You are a clear, persuasive writer and communicator, and are excited to draft legislation, regulations, and comments in addition to briefs, technical reports, and less-technical white papers and blog posts. You have deep relationships in tax law and policymaking.

**Responsibilities**

The Senior Attorney Advisor, who will report to the Executive Director, will be responsible for:

- Helping to set the agenda for the Tax Law Center, including helping to lead the design and implementation of a system for identifying and prioritizing opportunities for the Center to further its mission.
- Playing a core role in driving forward the Center’s ongoing regulatory work, coordinating and collaborating with outside experts, performing quality control, helping supervise the work of an Attorney Advisor and a Research Associate, and contributing your own original written work
- Interfacing with policymakers and staff, and connecting them with academic and practitioner experts.
- Providing strategic guidance to the Executive Director and other senior team members.
- Supervising and mentoring Tax Law Center staff.

**Requirements**:

- JD or equivalent and significant experience working on US federal tax law and policy.
- A track record of developing and maintaining strong working relationships with tax technical experts, such as federal government tax staff and tax practitioners.
- A commitment to advancing the mission of the Center.
- Good judgement about how to navigate and weigh complex and uncertain policy and procedural considerations.

Prior experience managing staff is a plus but is not required, but you need to be excited to develop these skills.
- The Tax Law Center has physical office space at NYU School of Law in New York, but also offers hybrid or remote work arrangements from within the US.**Application Instructions**:
You will be asked to upload a resume.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.