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California Coastal Commission
Legal
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 19, 2025
Job Description and Duties
The Enforcement Unit of the California Coastal Commission is seeking talented, skilled and knowledgeable attorneys to work in the Headquarters Enforcement Unit on cases brought to enforce the Coastal Act and to protect coastal resources up and down the State.
The Headquarters Enforcement Counsel are enforcement staff assigned to work in the Headquarters Unit as a member of the Statewide Enforcement Program, which is within the Coastal Commission’s Legal Division. The primary responsibilities of a Headquarters Enforcement Counsel are to obtain compliance with the Coastal Act in complex cases where the alleged violator has not cooperated with District enforcement staff to resolve the violations informally, or in situations where resolution involves an action that must be taken by the Commission, and to support the Office of the Attorney General in litigation of enforcement cases. A Headquarters Enforcement Counsel may also be responsible for processing enforcement cases from the outset and attempting to obtain compliance without use of formal administrative orders or litigation. Headquarters Enforcement Counsel work under the direction of the Chief of Enforcement Supervising Counsel and the Deputy Chief of Enforcement and perform case research and analysis at the direction of the Chief of Enforcement Supervisory Counsel. The Counsel must work closely with Commission staff attorneys in the Commission’s Counsel’s office and with the Commission’s planning and technical staff.
The Headquarters Enforcement Counsel is responsible for obtaining compliance with the Coastal Act via investigating and bringing cases to hearing before the Commission, drafting and negotiating settlement documents, preparing and presenting proposed settlements or other Orders to the Commission in public hearings, monitoring compliance with Orders issued by the Commission, assisting in litigation support, and other policy and enforcement tasks. The Headquarters Enforcement Counsel also assists in preparing monthly enforcement reports to the Commission.
The Headquarters Enforcement Counsel is also responsible for identifying and analyzing potential environmental justice impacts in projects, and drafting environmental justice, diversity and inclusion provisions in Staff Reports, settlements, or other documents, consistent with the Commission's Environmental Justice Policy, as well as conducting tribal coordination and consultation for relevant projects, including communicating with and gathering information from tribes, assessing impacts to cultural and tribal resources and drafting findings in Staff Reports, settlements, or other documents, consistent with the Commission’s Tribal Consultation Policy.
You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.