Medicolegal Administrative Specialist - Tidewater District

Title: Medicolegal Administrative Specialist - Tidewater District

State Role

Title:

Admin and Office Spec III

Hiring Range: $19.00 - $26.00

Pay Band: 3

Agency: Virginia Department of Health

Location:CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER-TDWT

Agency Website:https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

The Medicolegal Administrative Specialist serves as a member of the Medicolegal administrative team and independently performs a variety of administrative activities in support of the Assistant Chief Medical Examiners and other Medicolegal professionals. Characteristic duties may include: office and administrative responsibilities, data entry, records maintenance, filing, and providing customer service. The incumbent will be responsible for answering a multi‑line phone, speaking to constituents in person, triaging calls and answering questions pertaining to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Work regularly requires discretion, interpretation of law, policies, procedures or processes and frequent interaction with federal, state, and local officials as well as private citizens. May provide guidance to staff in other offices, districts, or community partners as an information resource or to assure quality and continuity of actions and information.

Wage employees are subject to the following conditions of employment:

• Wage employees serve at the will and pleasure of the appointing authority.
• Continuing employment is based on available funding and business need.
• Virginia state law currently requires that agencies not permit wage employees to work in excess of 29 hours per week on average over the course of a year.
• Wage employees may not work for VDH beyond 1,500 hours during the period of May 1 – April 30 of the following year (the Standard Measurement Period).
• Once a wage employee works the maximum of 1,500 hours during the Standard Measurement Period, the employee may be rehired as a wage employee of VDH only after the next Standard Measurement Period has begun.
• Wage employees are eligible to apply for all classified positions for which recruitment has been initiated, including those limited to State Employees Only.
• If a wage employee becomes employed in a classified position, he/she will be eligible to purchase retirement credit for the time worked as a wage employee.
• Continuing employment is based on available funding and business need.

• Knowledge of administrative and office principles and practices
• Proficient in the use of automated systems, word-processing, importing data into spreadsheets, creating new spreadsheets, manipulating data in existing spreadsheets, presentation software, proofreading and editing correspondence and reports, and creating PowerPoint presentations
• Ability to successfully interact and communicate with all levels of agency staff, government officials to include law enforcement and Commonwealth’s attorneys, local/state/federal legislators, and the general public, orally and in writing
• Ability to work independently, be self‑motivated, maintain confidentiality and deal with sensitive issues, requiring discretion and sound judgement
• Valid Driver's License

• Experience in administrative/office or medical/morgue setting
• Understanding of the operations of state government, such as relevant programs, policies, and Virginia Code.

Applications and/or resumes should include relevant work history which indicates your qualifications for this position. Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a state and federal criminal history background check and the Department of Social Service’s Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry check, U.S. HHSIG Exclusion List check, employment reference check and…