Department of Industrial Relations
Location
Sacramento County, CA | United States
Job description
Under the general direction of the Director and Chief Deputy Director (CDD), the Special Policy Advisor is responsible for the research, creation, and facilitation of policy-making activities.
Manage department-wide, cross-functional implementation efforts to ensure that newly passed laws are fully enacted. This will include leading and facilitating working groups for high profile, especially complex, or cross-departmental policies with enforcement, legal, legislative, and external affairs staff to define the scope and develop implementation plans that include identifying and scheduling milestones, assigning roles and responsibilities, and facilitating opportunities for collaboration and engagement with internal and external stakeholders. Directly influence and oversee division and program implementation efforts to ensure successful completion of milestones and alignment with statutory authority and legislative intent, and regularly brief the Director and Chief Deputy Director on progress, as well as advise on solutions when potential challenges or obstacles arise that may hamper progress. Collaborate with Deputy Director of External Affairs, Deputy Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs and Division leadership to design and execute communications and outreach strategies for external inquiries from the press and/or legislature on implementation efforts, as well as develop departmental policies and resource aids to support consistency. Anticipate, identify, and analyze issues relevant to various policy issues impacting the department including, but not limited to: wage and hour, paid leave, retaliation, workplace health and safety, and worker's compensation. Conduct independent research on policies, programs, and approaches related to labor laws, including a comparative evaluation of strategies implemented on an international or local level. Prepare reports, presentations, and issue briefs including background information and key findings to DIR and LWDA leadership. Provide recommendations to the Director and Chief Deputy Director and then develop and lead departmental policy agenda implementation efforts including future policy and legislative changes to improve the health and economic well-being of California workers. Develop policies and procedures that outline member selection, onboarding, content, facilitation expectations, public posting and notification and language access requirements. Develop a process to identify and recommend advisory members to the Director and Chief Deputy Director, ensuring geographic and demographic diversity. Solicit internal feedback on policies and procedures and regularly evaluate and update as appropriate. Manage and organize advisory committees related to recently passed legislation to offer a forum for external and internal stakeholders to communicate perspectives, share expertise, and suggest opportunities for improvement. Clarify purpose and legislatively mandated deliverables to develop. Collaborate with relevant DIR Division leadership to develop meeting agendas and create presentations or materials to provide advisory committee members with relevant background on DIR programs and operations. Convene and facilitate advisory committee meetings to ensure accessibility and in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Act. Participate in the development of the Department’s strategic plan and its business plan initiatives; develop strategies to implement the goals and objectives of the Department’s strategic plan related to policy analysis, lead the execution of cross-departmental and priority implementation initiatives, facilitate evaluation and reporting efforts in consultation with Division and program leadership. In collaboration with the LWDA Deputy Secretary of Evaluation, develop and execute a department-wide evaluation process to assess the effectiveness of DIR’s policy and enforcement programs. Serves a departmental liaison to cultivate, maintain, and grow a positive working relationship with local, state, and federal agency personnel to identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration and alignment on policy and implementation initiatives to protect and improve the well-being of workers in California. This includes other LWDA departments, as well as with other agencies and departments such as Department of Public Health. Provide general direction and serve as a liaison between DIR Division and program units such as the Labor Commissioner's Office, Cal/OSHA, and the Division of Worker's Compensation. Represent the Department and division, and/or support representation of Department and division leaders at priority external forums, events, and networks. Perform other duties necessary for the effective implementation of these program areas within DIR such as attending trainings or meetings.In addition to the Standard State Application (STD 678), all interested applicants are required to submit a Statement of Qualification (SOQ). Within each response, include specific information as to how your professional experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities meet the qualifications and desirable qualifications of this position.
Please limit your SOQ to a maximum of 3 pages, single spaced, 12 point font, and 1 inch margins. The SOQ should be numbered in the same order as the Statement of Qualification and should address each of the desirable qualifications. Each response should be in their own paragraph(s). Applicants who do not follow these requirements may be disqualified from the examination. Applicants who do not provide responses to the 6 specific questions below will be disqualified. Cover letters and resumes do not take the place of the SOQ. Please respond to the following questions in your SOQ with specific information in each of your responses. 1. Describe your professional experience related to education, compliance, enforcement or regulations in any of the following areas: wage and hour, paid leave, anti-retaliation, workers’ compensation, occupational safety and health, and/or apprenticeships standards. 2. Describe your professional leadership experience in developing and implementing legislative, regulatory or policy initiatives. Provide specific examples of strategies and metrics used to measure success. 3. Describe your experience and strategies establishing and maintaining working relationships with external stakeholders with diverse perspective to make progress and/or reach compromise on challenging issues. 4. Describe your experience in communicating challenging issues to senior or executive audiences and tactics used, including but not limited to, developing your recommendations, identifying potential risks or trade-offs, briefing leadership, and materials prepared such as reports or presentations. 5. Describe your experience managing shifting priorities and tight deadlines for sensitive and complex assignments. 6. Describe your experience in analyzing and evaluating a policy issue that led to a recommendation being adopted, including strategies used. Cite specific examples. Applicants will also be evaluated on how clearly and concisely their qualifications were presented throughout the SOQ (including grammar and punctuation). Applications received without a Statement of Qualification shall be rejected.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:
Benefit information can be found on the CalHR website and the CalPERS website.
The results of this examination will be used only to fill this position and may be used to fill subsequent vacancies for this position for a period of up to twelve months.
Results of this examination may also be used to fill the C.E.A. Level A – Special Policy Advisor position should there be a vacancy, for a period of up to twelve months.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:
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