State of Iowa Executive Branch Hiring for Legislative Liaison at Des Moines, IA Full Time

Job Description

Only applicants who meet the Minimum Qualification Requirements and meet all selective requirements (listed below) will be placed on the eligible list.

Legislative Liaison

This position is a key member of the Government Relations team, which supports the State’s largest agency to ensure that the department issues consistent and relevant communication to ensure success of department objectives. This position serves as the junior legislative liaison for the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Serves as a key member of the Iowa HHS Government Relations team, which coordinates the Iowa HHS legislative program and is authorized to serve as the agency representative with the Iowa legislature during regular and interim sessions.

Duties Include

Serves on Government Relations Team

• Attends legislative committees, subcommittees, and other meetings. Serves as the agency spokesperson at state/federal legislative meetings or individual legislators and congressional representatives on matters relating to agency programs. Reviews complex state and federal legislative bills, amendments affecting the agency and alerts management of those having potential impact. Distributes bills to management for review and comments and keeps them informed of legislative issues. Communicates identified problem areas and fiscal impact lo legislators and legislative staff. Coordinates responses to Legislative information requests and fiscal notes.

Coordinate Legislative Responses and Messaging

• Serves as the point of contact for legislative communication among the Governor’s office, executive branch, legislative branch, legislative services agency, and extremal interest groups. Arranges for prompt, accurate and clear response to constituent concerns or inquiries made by members of the Iowa General Assembly and members of Congress and their staff.

Document Development

• Develops, presents and secures enactment of an agency’s legislative package. Assists with state budget planning, budget development, and budget presentations. Drafts legislative proposals, policies, procedures, programmatic summaries and legislative implementation documents.

Legislative Implementation

• Monitors and coordinates activities that the department must undertake following the legislative session. Collaborates across the department to ensure that actions required by the legislative session are addressed. Monitors and ensures the submission of legislatively mandated reports. Analyzes a variety of information (e.g. state and federal laws, rules or regulations) and recommends solutions for resolving program/project administration problems.

Other Duties

• Carries out other duties as assigned.

HHS is a mission-driven organization, which works every day to help Iowans live healthy independent lives. The work is rewarding and challenging. Come to work with an agency that truly makes a difference.

Minorities, women and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. (Hearing and Speech Impaired – Relay Iowa 1-800-735-2942 TDD). HHS values those with lived experience and encourages foster youth, people who are in recovery, foster parents and or parents who were in the HHS system to apply.

This is a non-merit position with the Iowa Department of Human Services – Community Service Areas. Candidates must follow the instructions in the “To Apply” section.

Positions in this class are exempt from the screening and referral requirements of the Iowa Department of Administrative Services – Human Resources Enterprise.

Selectives

047 Legislative Liaison

12 months’ experience in professional level staff work for a legislative body or legislator at state or federal level; prior service as a legislator at the state or federal level or prior legislative/lobbying experience. Interns, pages, or those performing clerical work do not qualify under this selective.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in any field, and experience equal to five years of full-time professional-level work in program administration, program development, program research/evaluation, or management.
• A total of nine years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work in any field equals one year of full-time experience.
• All of the following (a, b, and c):
• Three years of full-time professional-level work experience in program administration, program development, program research/evaluation, or management; and
• A total of four years of education and full-time experience (as described in part a), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work in any field equals one year of full-time experience; and
• A total of two years of graduate-level education and full-time experience (as described in part a), where twenty-four semester hours of accredited graduate college or university course work in a public-service-related area (e.g., public or business administration, social work, public health, law, education, engineering) equals one year of full-time experience. Graduation from the Iowa Certified Public Manager Program is also equivalent to one year of full-time experience or education.
• Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes twelve months of full-time work as an Executive Officer 2 or two years of full-time work as an Executive Officer 1 or comparable specific management-level position.

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