Vice President, Assistant General Counsel

The person in this position will primarily be responsible for providing advice and counsel on a wide variety of traditional labor issues that arise from the day-to-day operations of a growing, complex public company operating in a heavily regulated environment. This person will be part of a cross-functional team that focuses on creating new strategies to support our teammates and drive efficiencies while ensuring that DaVita leads the way in being the Partner and Employer of Choice. 

• Drafting, implementing, and owning the Company’s short, medium, and long-term labor legal strategy. 

• Setting enterprise-wide labor law priorities, aligning legal strategy with business objectives, and ensuring consistent execution across regions, functions, and business units. 

• Serving as a trusted advisor to senior executives by translating complex labor risk into practical business options, recommendations, and decision points. 

• Providing expert-level legal guidance across the Company, including to senior executives and the Company’s Labor Relations team, on complex labor-related topics including labor relations, union campaigns, mergers and acquisitions, and matters before state agencies and the NLRB. 

• Managing outside counsel strategy, staffing, budgets, motion practice, unfair labor practice proceedings, collective bargaining support, and other significant labor matters, including ensuring practical, cost-effective, and business-aligned outcomes. 

• Leading cross-functional initiatives with Legal, People Services, Operations, Compliance, Communications, and Labor Relations to anticipate labor risk, resolve complex issues, and drive durable business solutions. 

• Leading training regarding Federal and California labor-related workplace issues. 

• Advising senior management and DaVita business units on labor compliance and risk management to accomplish business objectives without undue risk and in alignment with the Company’s long-term business strategy. 

• Developing, mentoring, and providing direction to legal and business partners supporting labor matters, including building capability, judgment, and readiness to manage complex labor issues. 

• Designing and maintaining governance processes, escalation protocols, and risk frameworks for significant labor matters, including union activity, unfair labor practice charges, collective bargaining, and labor-related agency proceedings. 

• Keeping the Company’s senior management abreast of significant NLRB decisions, legislation and rulings that may affect the Company’s business or policy. 

• Developing a thorough understanding of and familiarity with the Company's business, its people, markets, facilities, customers and competitors in order to identify trends and formulate appropriate structures and strategies. 

• Establishing a rapport and working relationship with teammates at all levels in order to encourage and continue the proactive use of in-house legal counsel. 

• Performing special assignments or projects. 

• Actively shaping Company culture by role-modeling behaviors, leading activities, and reinforcing DaVita’s Mission and Core Values. 

• Depending on location, you must be able to travel a minimum of 25%. 

A successful candidate will meet the following qualifications and characteristics: 

• J.D. Degree with minimum 15 years of legal experience, with 10-15 years of traditional labor experience, including labor relations, union campaigns, labor-related matters before state agencies and the NLRB, and collective bargaining. 

• Experience working with healthcare clients and unions (i.e., SEIU-UHW, NNU, etc.) is a plus, but not required. 

• A State bar qualification and good standing. 

• Law firm experience preferred; previous in-house experience preferred.  

• Strong alignment with DaVita’s Mission and Core Values. 

• Strong executive-level communication skills, both written and oral. 

• Unquestioned integrity and ethics. 

• Assertive and a self-starter. 

• Maturity and strong interpersonal skills; one whose counsel and judgment are actively sought. 

• Keen understanding of business and commerce, the ability to diagnose legal problems, and independently present positive, creative solutions and alternatives for 
  management. 

• Bright individual who is a “quick study” and grasps issues quickly.  Not hindered by an overly bureaucratic and structured approach to solving problems. 

• Possesses good stamina and humor.  Able to thrive under pressure in a fast-moving, dynamic company. 

• Maturity and flexibility to work effectively with senior management, front-line teammates, and operations personnel. 

• Interpersonal skills to be team participant with legal background rather than just the lawyer to the team. 

• Key ability to accomplish tasks of both a recurring nature up to complicated analysis in a high volume, fast-paced environment. 

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