EXECUTIVE ADMIN ASSISTANT 2 - LEGISLATIVE LIAISON - 67222

Executive Service

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Job Overview:

This classification is responsible for professional staff work of average to complex difficulty in relieving an Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, or Commissioner of administrative detail. An employee in this class may perform liaison, public contact, public relations, and/or other administrative assistance work. This work often requires an incumbent to handle difficult decisions, personal contacts, and staff analysis. This classification may directly supervise subordinate positions. This class differs from that of an Executive Admin Assistant 3 in that an incumbent of the latter performs work of greater scope and/or complexity.

Key Responsibilities:

Assist in managing the departments legislative package to enhance and advance DCS mission. During legislative session, monitor and track daily legislation that directly or may directly impact the operations of DCS using TN Tracks and TLS. Assist the Director of Legislation to ensure compliance with statutory reporting requirements. Manage rulemaking projects to assist the Department in promulgating new rules and revising administrative rules as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of full-time professional staff administrative experience or related work. Preferred experience: Licensed attorney or law school graduate.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.