Job Description
Location: Albany, NY Category: Other Job Type: Full-time Posted On: Mon Feb 2 2026 Job Description: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York is seeking an attorney with minimum of 5 years of relevant experience to focus on labor and employment law matters. The selected candidate will also work as a generalist as part of a collaborative team on the wide variety of legal matters arising out of the Foundation's sponsored programs, innovation and partnerships activity, and corporate status as a non-profit foundation. Functions include advice on employee and human relations issues, labor relations in a complex matrixed environment that involves close interrelationships among SUNY, the RF, and affiliated entities. Duties include advising management on employee relations issues, policy development and training; employment and commercial litigation, responding to administrative charges, employment and commercial litigation; contract drafting, review, and negotiation; workplace investigations, and dispute resolution; and negotiating labor contracts and managing labor relations issues. Reporting to the General Counsel and Secretary, selected candidate will work closely with RF executive management as well as campus academic and business leadership, managers of entities affiliated with the RF, and SUNY's counsel. Day-to-day responsibilities will involve a wide range of matters reflecting the complex, diverse and extremely interesting work of the Research Foundation RESPONSIBILITIES Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel and Secretary, lead the legal human relations and employee relations functions and advising corporate and operation location managers on labor and employment law issues, including but not limited to performance and disciplinary matters, accommodations and leave issues, separations, hiring, layoffs and reductions in force, visa and immigration matters, wage and hour issues. Develop and rev