Northern Hearing Officer

Job Requisition ID: 48068 
Closing Date: 07/18/2025
​Agency: Illinois Prisoner Review Board
Class Title: PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR - 37015 
Skill Option: Special License - Illinois Law License 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary (Effective 1/1/2025) $7966 a month; Full Range $7966 - $14244 a month
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: None
Merit Comp Code: 

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Position Overview

The Illinois Prisoner Review Board is seeking to hire a motivated, self-starting Public Service Administrator (8L) as the Northern Hearing Officer working directly under Deputy General Counsel in the Legal Unit. The Public Service Administrator (8L), Northern Hearing Officer, will serves as the preliminary hearing officer in the northern district conducting preliminary and complex hearings related to a multitude of statutes, case law and federal court decisions the Board is mandated to enforce.  The position will provide assistance to the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel, serves as resource to government officials, attorneys and the public providing interpretation and advice with respect to the Prisoner Review Board, answer inquiries and provides information regarding the Preliminary Hearing Program and related consent decrees.   The ideal candidate will be able to work well with the public, staff and Senior Management. We invite those interested in public safety to apply. 

Essential Functions

• Plans, organizes, directs and evaluate the operations of Preliminary Hearings Program Unit Northern Division pursuant to settlement agreements including but not limited to the M.H. Consent Decree, Morales Consent Decree and the Kin Consent Decree. 
• Serves as Supervising Hearing Officer of the Northern Division of the Preliminary Hearing Program Unit.
• Serves as full line supervisor.
• Provides technical assistance to the General Counsel.
• Serves as a resource to government officials, attorneys and the public.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires graduation from an accredited law school.
• Requires prior experience equivalent to three (3) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a public or private legal organization, preferably in the areas of criminal justice or administrative law.
• Requires the possession of a license to practice law in Illinois.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefers the ability to successfully apply learned knowledge and techniques to working environment.
• Prefers working knowledge of the agency's program operations and policies.
• Prefers five (5) years experience in criminal, judicial and quasi-judicial procedures and rules of evidence.
• Prefers three (3) years experience in working knowledge principles of administration and management, including organization controls and techniques used in dealing with management and procedural problems.
• Prefers the ability to maintain satisfactory public contacts and working relationships with others; to exercise sound judgement in appraising and evaluating problems and procedures natures.
• Prefers the ability to use expediently all primary and secondary legal source materials, to analyze all legal documents and instruments and to prepare,