Description of Job

The Legal & Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State will:

• Analyze the federal Administration’s orders and document requests regarding elections and draft memos for senior management.
• Serve as an advisor to the Secretary of State (Secretary) and other senior management concerning the Department’s strategic objectives related to elections and core department functions.
• Review civil inquiries from external parties, including the federal government and private parties, and use expertise to draft memos and brief senior management regarding the Department’s appropriate responses.
• Develop policies and manage all major document productions stemming from requests from salient external parties.
• Liaise with the Attorney General’s office to determine appropriate data and records to gather from the Department to respond to litigation.

Database Unit

To ensure that the Department databases are always available with a high level of data integrity, responsiveness, and that they meet the needs across all of Colorado Department of State (CDOS).

Illustration of Duties

As the Database Manager, you will be the leader of the highly valued database unit. You’ll supervise a team of Database Administrator professionals while also working in multiple database production and development environments yourself.

The ideal candidate will be a critical and creative thinker with strong leadership and problem-solving skills. To succeed in this role, it is important that you have outstanding database programming skills and experience with supervision of staff.