Job Description

Job Description and Duties

Are you interested in a meaningful and impactful career? Would you like to contribute to protecting people and the environment and accelerating a statewide transition to sustainable pest management? The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) could be the place for you!

The DPR legal office has an opening for an Assistant Chief Counsel (ACC). Under the direction of the Chief Counsel, the ACC leads a team of attorneys in advancing DPR's mission to protect human health and the environment.

Duties include providing expert legal advice to the Chief Counsel and Directorate on complex and sensitive questions arising from environmental and public law requirements applicable to DPR pesticide program implementation and DPR's administrative services divisions, and supervising a team of subordinate attorneys.

You will find additional information about the job in the .

Working Conditions

• Administrative office building.
• Ability to use a computer up to 8 hours a day.
• Occasional statewide travel with occasional overnight stays.
• May be required to work irregular hours.

NOTE: This position may be eligible for hybrid telework under Government Code 14200 for eligible applicants residing in California, subject to the candidate meeting telework eligibility criteria set forth in the CalEPA telework policy and/or future program need. Employees not residing in California are not eligible for telework. Regardless of telework eligibility, all employees may be required to report to the position’s designated headquarters location, as indicated on their duty statement, at their own expense.

Special Requirements

• The position(s) require(s) a(n) State Bar of California's Provisional Licensure License. You will be required to provide a copy of your license prior to being hired.

• This position is designated Conflict of Interest and requires disclosure of economic interests.

• If education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must include a copy of your degree and/or unofficial transcripts in order to verify you meet the minimum qualifications. If you use unofficial transcripts to verify you meet the minimum qualifications, you must provide official transcripts prior to your start date, if selected for the position.

• Please do not include any confidential information on any documents you submit for this job vacancy. Confidential information includes, but is not limited to: basis of eligibility, examination results, LEAP status, Social Security Number (SSN), birthdate, marital status, age, national origin, medical conditions, and use of medical leave.

Desirable Qualifications

In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:

• Knowledge or experience working with diverse cultural communities.
• Awareness of diverse communities and regional demographics.
• Ability to communicate respectfully and with sensitivity.
• Ability to listen, communicate, and persuade in order to reach a mutually acceptable solution in the negotiation context. 
• Skill in developing and maintaining cooperative relationships with others, including developing trust and credibility with co-workers and stakeholders. 
• Ability to research, analyze, and apply legal principles and precedents to specific facts. 
• Ability to communicate and explain legal issues clearly and logically both orally and in wiriting to thosenot trained in the law. 
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and track a number of concurrent assignments. 
• Ability to gracefully accept constructive criticism and provide active collaboration to achieve a more successful output.

Benefits

Benefit information can be found on the CalHR website and the CalPERS website.

Critical Job Competencies

Coaching/Mentoring/Continual Learning: Seize opportunities to coach and promote a positive work culture where individuals can develop into satisfied, self-reflective professionals.

Communication: Model effective oral and written messages.

Decisiveness: Make decisions and solve problems involving varied level of complexity, ambiguity and risk.

Ethics and Integrity: Maintain a high degree of trustworthiness and ethical behavior of an individual with consideration for the knowledge one has of the impact and consequences when making a decision or taking action.

Leading and Managing Change: Ability to establish new program elements to create a well-functioning, program.

Organizational Intelligence: Ability to understand, assess and guide the work of the Department to accomplish goals based on addressing processes and bottlenecks in the context of the culture of the workplace.

Partnering/Networking: Develop networks and build alliances.

Political Acumen: Identify the internal and external politics that impact the work of the organization. Perceive organizational and political reality and act accordingly.

Problem-Solving: Creatively identify and address problems encountered by including input from impacted parties.

Transparency: In-program development and relationships with counties.

Vision: Maintain a creative working environment that focuses on the value of new or expanded programs.

Required Application Package Documents

The following items are required to be submitted with your application. Applicants who do not submit the required items timely may not be considered for this job:

• Current version of the State Examination/Employment Application STD Form 678 (when not applying electronically), or the Electronic State Employment Application through your Applicant Account at All Experience and Education relating to the Minimum Qualifications listed on the Classification Specification should be included to demonstrate how you meet the Minimum Qualifications for the position.
• Resume is required and must be included.

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