The Senior Principal Counsel and Lead Strategy & Transactions Counsel, UCSF Health, serves as lead counsel to members of the UCSF Health System Executive Team and Senior Leadership Counsel related to complex healthcare transactions and related complex regulatory matters.

The Senior Principal Counsel must be a recognized state or national expert in either complex healthcare transactions or complex healthcare operations matters, with a demonstrated ability to independently counsel strategy, network development, and contracting leaders and to run major transactions, including whole hospital transactions. This includes providing strategic advice to assist clients in identifying and describing their goals and objectives; developing options for pursuing them; identifying, coordinating, and efficiently managing disperse in-house and outside resources in support of the deal work; leading response to related government inquiries and investigations, and drafting complex legal opinions. The work requires working knowledge of substantive legal disciplines affecting healthcare organizations such as corporate governance, fraud and abuse, licensing and enrollment, enterprise risk management, and managed care.

Direct experience with California agencies with related regulatory oversight responsibilities (such as the California Department of Justice, the California Department of Public Health, the Department of Health Care Services, and the Department of Health Care Access and Information) is required.

This position more broadly provides strategic leadership and counsel, independently managing and completing long-term projects, anticipating areas of risk, concern, and/or liability, and developing unique, innovative solutions that account for the long-range vision of UCSF Health and the UCSF Office of Legal Affairs. Other duties as assigned, including, but not limited to: representing the General Counsel, the Chief Campus Counsel, or the Chief Counsel, UCSF Health in different settings; independently identifying opportunities to collaborate with diverse, interdisciplinary teams to facilitate holistic, multi-faceted solutions that anticipate challenges; contributing to UC Legal's repository of scholarly and/or pedagogic publications through development of templates, white papers, precedent, and otherwise; and interfacing regularly with executive leaders of UCSF Health, UCSF and UC Legal.

The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.

Your placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification at UCSF. For positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.

The salary range for this position is $192,800 - 396,000 (Annual Rate). A typical qualified candidate can generally expect to earn between $275,000 - $325,000.

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