position will be posted 7/1/19 for a minimum of two weeks
Job Title: Staff Attorney
FLSA Status: Exempt
Reports to: Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Corporate Affairs and Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This position may be either part time (30 hours) or full time (40 hours). Additional hours may be required on an infrequent basis.
Position Summary or Basic Function: Provides legal counsel to AMP and its affiliates.
Reports to this position: None
Essential Functions:
1. Assists the Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Corporate Affairs and Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs and other AMP attorneys with various legal matters concerning the corporation and its affiliates.
2. Assumes primary responsibility for drafting and negotiating form-based agreements including non-disclosure agreements, renewable energy credit agreements, power purchase agreements, and purchase order terms and conditions.
3. Serves as quality control for contract administration, ensuring contracts and their key provisions are accurately recorded and tracked in AMP’s contract management software, and providing back-up support for contract administration staff.
4. Files corporate annual reports and related documents.
5. Serves as facilitator and recording secretary for various AMP and affiliate meetings.
6. Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Qualifications:
1. Admitted to the practice of law in the State of Ohio.
2. One or more years of relevant experience.
3. Experience and knowledge in one or more of the following areas of the law: a. Commercial contracts and transactions b. Energy/Utilities c. Municipal
4. Ability to prioritize multiple projects/tasks with attention to detail.
5. Excellent organizational, communication, analytical, and writing skills.
About American Municipal Power, Inc.
About American Municipal Power, Inc.
Founded in 1971, American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP) is the nonprofit wholesale power supplier and services provider serving 135 members, who include 134 member municipal electric systems in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Maryland, as well as the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation, a joint action agency with nine members headquartered in Smyrna, Delaware. Combined, AMP’s member utilities serve more than 650,000 customers.
AMP is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with more than 160 employees at headquarters and generating facilities. The organization is governed by a 21-member Board of Trustees consisting of 20 member communities and one representative of DEMEC.
AMP’s mission is to provide its members with the benefits of scale and expertise in providing and managing energy services. AMP offers a wide variety of services on a cooperative, nonprofit basis for the mutual benefit of all member communities. These include power supply, environmental, finance, technical, legislative, regulatory and legal services, and lineworker and safety training. AMP’s vision is to be public power’s leader ...in wholesale energy supply and value-added member services.
The organization develops, manages and supplies diverse, competitively priced, reliable wholesale energy to public power members. That diversified resource mix includes wholesale power purchases through AMP and on the open market, plus energy produced from a variety of baseload, intermediate and distributed generation assets using natural gas, advanced coal, hydro, wind, landfill gas, diesel and solar.
