Senior Policy Analyst: Legislative & Regulatory Strategy

Virginia Department Of Motor Vehicles; Richmond (VA); Presencial; USD 83.000 - 95.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is seeking a Senior Policy Analyst in Richmond, VA, within the Legal & Legislative Affairs department. This role provides technical and legislative support to executive and agency staff, developing legislative proposals and preparing for the General Assembly session, including appearing and testifying before committees.

Responsibilities include drafting agency responses to legislator inquiries, preparing study reports, and coordinating with stakeholders

Qualificações

• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to research, analyze, and develop solutions and to provide technical support for issues related to agency programs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple assignments, organize work and coordinate activities across a diverse group of people and special interests and to collect, compile, and accurately analyze data.
• Demonstrated ability to identify issues at the national and state levels impacting the operations of the agency.
• Demonstrated ability to assist with guiding managers and supporting agency initiatives and objectives and maintaining effective working relationships with stakeholders and all levels of employees.
• Demonstrated ability to work on special projects, draft study reports and 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.

Responsabilidades

• Provide technical and legislative support to Executive and agency staff in developing legislative proposals.
• Prepare for the General Assembly session including appearing and testifying before legislative committees.
• Prepare agency responses to legislator and stakeholder inquiries and prepare agency study reports.

Conhecimentos

Legal research

Legislative process knowledge

Regulations analysis

Oral communication

Written communication

Data analysis

Project coordination

Stakeholder coordination

Note taking

Reading comprehension

Ferramentas

Microsoft Office

Descrição da vaga

The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is seeking a Senior Policy Analyst in Richmond, VA, within the Legal & Legislative Affairs department. This role provides technical and legislative support to executive and agency staff, developing legislative proposals and preparing for the General Assembly session, including appearing and testifying before committees.

Responsibilities include drafting agency responses to legislator inquiries, preparing study reports, and coordinating with stakeholders