**This posting is used to fill multiple vacancies.

** June 1st, 2025, this position has a flexible work arrangement that allows for up to 50% telework with a minimum of 50% working in our office per month.

This posting will be used to hire multiple subject matter expert attorneys in the Office of Inspector General (OIG) Legal Division. One position is in the OIG Legal Counsel’s Office, Licensing Legal Team, and at least one other position is in the OIG Legal Counsel’s Office, Children, Youth, and Families Legal Team. 

Children, Youth, and Families Legal Team

In the 2023 legislative session, the Governor’s Office, Minnesota legislature, and leaders for children and families worked in partnership to pass legislation establishing the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to create a sustainable, public face for children’s issues in state government. This new cabinet-level agency brings together programs centered on children and families, including child care and early learning, child support, child safety and permanency, economic support and food assistance, and youth opportunity. 

The Children, Youth, and Families attorney will start at DHS and move to DCYF by July 1, 2025. The attorney will support the DCYF licensing and program integrity divisions. 

Licensing Legal Team

The Licensing Legal Team attorney remains part of the OIG Legal Counsel’s Office supporting the Licensing Division. This position performs complex attorney functions relating to data practices and data management, the issuance of licensing actions, various administrative reconsiderations, administrative appeals, and litigation related to background studies, maltreatment, and licensing actions issued by the Licensing Division. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities within both the Children, Youth, and Families Team and the Licensing Legal Team include but are not limited to the following:

• Subject matter expert in the overall laws, rules, and policies relating to the Licensing Division functions and related due process and in a specialty area of law within the Licensing Division. 
• Independently handles complex litigation and advises Licensing Division management and staff, the Attorney General’s Office, county attorneys, and other agency staff on complex legal issues, with a high degree of judgment and skill based on their experience and subject matter knowledge. 
• Prepares memoranda, reconsideration decisions, and other legal documents relating to complex Licensing Division functions and related due process. 
• Handles data practices requests and related legal questions.
• Good working knowledge of each OIG Division program to identify and raise potential cross-divisional impacts to the Legal Office Manager. 
• Operates with significant independence to act related to these areas and, with regard to their area of expertise, an obligation to keep leadership apprised of resources needs, legal trends, and significant legal developments, including identifying areas of risk that may affect the Licensing Division and other areas within OIG.
• The position within the Children, Youth, and Families Team may also include the above responsibilities as they relate to the Child Care Audit and Investigations Division.