DCPHR Legislative Director - Policy Advisor VI - Policy​/Stakeholder Engagement

DCPHR Legislative Director - Policy Advisor VI - Policy/Stakeholder Engagement

Apply for the DCPHR Legislative Director - Policy Advisor VI - Policy/Stakeholder Engagement role at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
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Disease Control & Public Health Response – Policy and Stakeholder Engagement

You must be a resident of the State of Colorado to be eligible to apply.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

In addition to free parking, access to RTD bus lines, Cherry Creek bike path and flexible working arrangements.

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The Division of Disease Control and Public Health Response (DCPHR) is the department’s lead surveillance, planning and response arm for public events including communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics, pandemics, bioterrorism, and other public health and mass casualty events and disasters. The Division exists to ensure that the Department has the ability to effectively prepare for, monitor, detect, diagnose, investigate, and respond to all types of conditions, events and disasters that impact the public’s health.

The DCPHR Policy Unit coordinates, implements, and monitors the division’s legislative and regulatory agenda; conducts legislative, policy, and regulatory reviews; coordinates internal and external stakeholder engagement initiatives; researches, develops, and recommends policy positions and courses of action for the division; develops policies and procedures as they relate to legislative and regulatory engagement. The unit guides and influences policy work throughout the division, oversees the fiscal note process, and has broad impacts on policy research and direction for all DCPHR programs and legislative initiatives.

This position serves as the staff authority for all of DCPHR’s legislative work and is responsible for legislative tracking, triaging legislative issues for DCPHR leadership, overseeing legislative and policy communications across the division, providing consultation to programs regarding advancing policy initiatives and strategic goals, developing legislative analyses, decision items, budget requests, fiscal notes, talking points, briefing documents, and monitoring legislative committees.

The role serves as a liaison and a resource with division staff and stakeholder groups, represents the division’s interest with inter‑governmental and intra‑governmental groups and agencies, including state legislators, maintains oversight of the division’s legislative and regulatory policy implementation, and supports special projects, including research projects.

• Advise the DCPHR Division Director, Deputy Director, division leadership, and department leadership on complex policy, policy implementation, and stakeholder relations issues related to DCPHR.
• Provide leadership and support for the legislative process; review legislation and track bills introduced throughout the legislative session to assess relevance and division impact.
• Work with the CDPHE Legislative Affairs Unit (LAU) to request amendments, positions of support or opposition, or other engagements.
• Support the Division Director, Deputy Director and division leadership in advancing and advocating before the legislature, federal, state or local agencies or other forums as needed.
• Liaise, advocate, and defend division proposals before the legislature, and other federal, state or local agencies or other forums, as approved by division and department leadership.
• Serve as a conduit for communication between division staff and the LAU.
• Represent DCPHR interests in cross‑agency discussions regarding key policy discussions, closely collaborating with the DCPHR Director, Deputy Director, department leadership and Governor's Office.
• Develop responses to legislative questions from legislators, the Governor’s Office, advocates, and others,…