Policy Analyst Senior

Title: Policy Analyst Senior

State Role Title: Policy Planning Spec II

Hiring Range: $78,120 - $89,838 

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Department of Motor Vehicles

Location: LEGISLATIVE SERVICES

Agency Website: www.dmv.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Legislative Analyst position reports to the Legislative Services Director and works with legislators, other agencies, and stakeholders. The position develops legislative proposals; prepares for the General Assembly session (including appearing and testifying before legislative committees, or providing briefing materials to the Commissioner, executives, and staff who will appear and testify); drafts agency responses to legislator and stakeholder inquiries; collaborates with operational subject-matter experts to prepare Legislative Action Summaries, Fiscal Impact Statements, Enrolled Bill Reviews, and agency study reports; and records the decisions and decision-making process of legislative concept and agency study work groups. The position is also responsible for conducting legal research and interpreting, analyzing, developing, and amending legislative proposals, regulations, and guidance documents.

Minimum Qualifications

• Working knowledge of the legal system, legal research, state and federal laws and regulations, and statutory interpretation and development.
• Working knowledge of the legislative process at the federal and state level, and of the operations and processes of legislative committees.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate both orally and in writing.
• Proficiency using the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Demonstrated ability to review and interpret regulations and statutes applicable to agency operations and programs.
• Demonstrated ability to research, analyze, and develop solutions requiring statutory or regulatory action to support agency programs and initiatives, including capacity both for critical thinking to identify shortcomings and potential pitfalls in agency concepts and procedures, and for creative problem solving to innovate solutions in partnership with operational area subject-matter experts.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple assignments, organize work, coordinate activities across a diverse group of people and special interests, and to collect, compile, and accurately analyze information.
• Demonstrated ability to identify issues at the national and state levels that impact the agency's operations.
• Demonstrated ability to assist with guiding the Commissioner and executives, supporting agency programs, initiatives, and objectives, and maintaining effective working relationships with stakeholders and all levels of employees.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a group on special projects, to draft study reports, and to work with industry and special task forces as directed.
• Demonstrated ability to take notes effectively to accurately record the decisions made at meetings and the reasoning underlying those decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to read and comprehend lengthy, complex documents, to identify and understand legal terms of art, and to decipher jargon.
• Demonstrated competence in pattern recognition and differentiation, especially recognizing and implementing the changes necessary to adapt an existing template or draft for use for a new or different purpose, including the ability to analyze, compare, and contrast existing documents to identify elements that should be reformatted or updated with new information.

Additional Considerations

• Experience drafting legislation, regulations, and guidance documents, and evaluating and advising which vehicle is most appropriate to implement the policy at issue;
• Experience using the General Assembly's Legislative Information System and Lobbyist-in-a-Box service to identify and monitor Virginia legislation;
• Experience leading and documenting deliberations and decisions of policy work groups comprising agency and external stakeholders;
• Experience monitoring pending federal legislation and regulatory actions to identify and track proposals that impact Virginia law, procedures, or operations;
• Experience drafting and submitting regulatory changes and guidance documents in accordance with the Virginia Administrative Process Act and the requirements of the Department of Planning and Budget, Office of Regulatory Management, and Virginia Registrar