Attorney 4 (20043596)

What We Need YOU To Do:

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to join our team as a staff attorney with the Division of Materials and Waste Management (DMWM) at our Central Office in Columbus, Ohio.

Want to flex your legal skills to protect the environment? Read on!

As staff attorney, you’ll provide legal support to DMWM with operations-critical work like reviewing and drafting environmental enforcement cases, legal contracts, covenants, and agreements. You’ll review the division’s permitting and licensing activities to make sure it is meeting regulatory and administrative requirements for providing public records, notices, meetings, and hearings.

You’ll act as liaison between the agency’s legal, division and district offices, and the Attorney General's Office (AGO) and coordinate with the AGO on appeals and enforcement referrals and cases.

You’ll provide legal advice to agency staff and respond to legal inquiries from the public and/or governmental officials. You’ll conduct legal research and support rulemaking and legislation based on your expertise in environmental, property, and administrative law.

Here’s a brief on the key points:

• Draft and negotiate enforcement-related documents.
• Conduct legal research and provide legal advice to staff and senior management.
• Provide legal advice and support on rulemaking and legislation.
• Review public records for confidentiality/public disclosure.
• Review/draft contracts, grants, access agreements, and environmental covenants.

The evidence is clear: apply for this opportunity today!

This Position is Unclassified per Section 124.11(A)(9) ORC.

At the State of Ohio, we take care of the team that cares for Ohioans. We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full-time and part-time employees*. For a list of all the State of Ohio Benefits, visit our Total Rewards website! Our benefits package includes:

• Medical Coverage
• Free Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, Adoption, and Foster Care leave
• Education and Development Opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public Retirement Systems (such as OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS) & Optional Deferred Compensation (Ohio Deferred Compensation)

• Benefits eligibility is dependent on a number of factors. The Agency Contact listed above will be able to provide specific benefits information for this position.

• Admission to Ohio Bar pursuant to Section 4705.01 of Revised Code; AND 12 mos. exp. as licensed attorney; AND 6 mos. exp. in employee training & development.
  
  Job Skills: Attorney/Legal, Public Relations, Law, Planning and Development, Research, Equipment Operations, Reasoning, Verbal Communication, Customer Focus

Background Check: The final candidate selected for the position will be required to undergo a criminal background check. Criminal convictions do not necessarily preclude an applicant from consideration for a position. An individual assessment of an applicant's prior criminal convictions will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.

EEO Statement: The Ohio Environmental Protections Agency is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, national origin (ancestry), military status, disability, age (40 years of age or older), genetic information, sexual orientation, status as a parent during pregnancy and immediately after the birth of a child, status as a parent of a young child, or status as a foster parent as those are defined in applicable Ohio law, federal law, and any Executive Order, in admission or access to the operation of its programs, services, activities or its own employment practices. Employment practices are any employment related decisions including, but not limited to hiring, layoff, transfer, termination, promotion, demotion, discipline, rate of compensation, eligibility for in-service training programs, or terms and conditions of employment.

ADA Statement: The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is committed to providing access, equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact the Office of Human Resources at 614-644-2100 prior to testing or interviewing.

Ohio is a Disability Inclusion State and strives to be a model employer of individuals with disabilities. The State of Ohio is committed to providing access and inclusion and reasonable accommodation in its services, activities, programs and employment opportunities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws.

The State of Ohio is a drug-free workplace which prohibits the use of marijuana (recreational marijuana/non-medical cannabis). Please note, this position may be subject to additional restrictions pursuant to the State of Ohio Drug-Free Workplace Policy (HR-39), and as outlined in the posting.