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Candidates Must Meet the Following Qualifications: The candidate must possess a law degree from an accredited law school; admission to, and member in good standing of, the New York State Bar; and eight years of relevant post-bar experience.
 Preferred Skills: • Service in a Counsel’s Office for a public agency focusing on health, human services, and/or housing. • Exceptional organizational skills and experience managing large projects and/or groups of individuals to ensure timely completion and quality results. • Exceptional written and oral communication skills. • Experience developing policy framework and leading policy development. • Demonstrated ability to provide sound supervision and staff development. • Experience leading, implementing, and/or managing staff and providing effective staff development.
 Duties of Position:
 Reporting directly to the Commissioner, the incumbent of this position is responsible for setting the agency’s overall legal policy. The duties of the position include, but are not limited to: • Provide guidance and direction to the agency’s legal staff in the areas of litigation, legislation, regulations, the provision of administrative hearings, and the provision of legal counsel to the program and administrative areas. • Manage work of the Division to ensure assignments are completed on time and with high quality legal assessments. • Provide the Commissioner and the agency’s executive staff with advice and consultation on the legal implications of a wide range of matters having an impact on program and administrative areas. • Maintain working relationships with the Department of Law and the counsels of a wide range of federal, State and local district governmental agencies with which OTDA interacts. • Provide the Commissioner and agency executive staff with oral and written opinions on various legal matters involving the OTDA and/or local social services districts. • Recommend legal initiatives that should be undertaken by OTDA to meet new and changing State and federal laws and regulations, including necessary litigation, to ensure the agency obtains all federal funding to which it is entitled. • Ensure the Office of Legal Affairs provides the types of services OTDA requires and for the development and implementation of wide-ranging legal policies and procedures needed to ensure that support is provided. • Provide the Commissioner and the agency’s executive staff with a wide range of legal assistance necessary for the development and implementation of effective program initiatives. • Act on behalf of the Commissioner, represent OTDA at various meetings and conferences on all matters related to their areas of responsibility. The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) is looking for applicants who are seeking a rewarding career. OTDA is recognized as a national leader in the field of Human Services and innovative social welfare programs. OTDA is responsible for supervising programs that provide assistance and support to eligible families and individuals. OTDA’s functions include providing temporary assistance to help pay for expenses; providing assistance to purchase food; helping to meet home energy needs; overseeing NYS’s child support services; determining certain aspects of eligibility for Social Security Disability benefits; administering programs to help address homelessness in NYS; overseeing publicly funded shelters for families and adults; and implementing services for refugees. Working for New York State: As a New York State employee, you are afforded great fringe benefits totaling in excess of 60% of your salary. Our comprehensive package includes: • Health care coverage with provisions for hospitalization, medical/surgical coverage, prescription drug benefits, dental, and vision; • Generous vacation, personal, and sick leave benefits; • Up to thirteen paid holidays per calendar year; • Pre-Tax Health Care; • Voluntary enrollment in deferred compensation plans; • Access to financial assistance for further career-related study; • Membership in the New York State Retirement System • Paid Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Alternative Work Schedule Options • Telecommuting up to 50% may be available in accordance with The Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance policy and can be discussed during the interview.
 Conditions of Employment: A full-time appointment will be made. This position is in the Exempt jurisdictional classification. A background check of the selected candidate will be required. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. NYS OTDA seeks to promote a diverse workforce that is a representation of the various cultures, voices, backgrounds, ideas, and talents of the citizens and communities that we serve. We actively solicit and encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (“BIPOC”); LGBTQIA+ individuals; women; people with disabilities; and military veterans.
 Remarks: • Candidates should reference posting #25-154NYT when submitting your application. • If submitting electronically, please reference posting #25-154NYT as part of your subject line. • If you are interested

Office of Temporary Disability & Assistance

General Counsel - Division of Legal Affairs

Test Specialist, IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY and various unanticipated client sites throughout the US (Up to 60% telecommuting permitted): Serve as a team leader and provide direction to team members and coordinate the work efforts. Act as a subject matter expert for ITS processing and mentor team members on ITS applications. Oversee, lead, and coordinate test efforts for small, medium, and complex projects and SSCRs. Analyze business requirements and coordinate with business and development team to derive test requirements. Enter test scenarios in appropriate platforms. Attend daily scrum, scrum of scrums, walk-throughs, and sprint retrospective meetings in which the daily tasks, issues, concerns, and areas are discussed. Review and approve test plans based on project needs. Conduct meetings with business and IT teams to review the test cases/test plans and get approvals from the stake holders. Estimate the level of effort for assigned Project/SSCR and review estimate submissions. Coordinate with test data management team for test data needs. Oversee various tests like functional, system, integration, user Acceptance, regression testing. Provide daily status report to stake. Upload test cases, test results in test plan and link test cases to the user stories in Jira or requirements in RDNG. Perform tracking and logging of defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps using various defect tracking tools. Coordinate with respective DEV teams in defect resolution. Monitor test execution activities (end to end) and identify testing risks/challenges upfront and bring them to respective PMs attention. Create requirement tractability matrix and test execution reports. Prepare test evaluation summary report and review with business. Utilize: COBOL, Inter-plan Teleprocessing Systems (ITS), Agile Methodology, JCL, VSAM, and Automation and Provisioning for Testing (APT tool). Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or related and five (5) years of experience as a Systems Quality Assurance Lead, IT Quality Control Advisor or related. Five (5) years of experience must include utilizing COBOL, Inter-plan Teleprocessing Systems (ITS), Agile Methodology, JCL, VSAM, and Automation and Provisioning for Testing (APT tool). $150280 to $160000 per year. Please send resumes to <a href="mailto:recruitad@us.ibm.com" target="_blank">recruitad@us.ibm.com</a>. Applicants must reference SN122 in the subject line.

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