Attorney Bureau Chief - County Attorney - Misdemeanor

Job Description Summary Department - County Attorney Job Description REVISED OPEN TO CURRENT PIMA COUNTY EMPLOYEES ONLY Job Type: Unclassified Job Classification: 3004 - Attorney Bureau Chief Salary Grade: A5 Pay Range Pay Range: $137,425 - $261,081 Annually  Range Explanation:   Hiring Range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity. Pay Range is the entire compensation range for the position.   The Pima County Attorney’s Office is seeking an experienced prosecutor and dynamic leader to serve as the Attorney Bureau Chief of the Misdemeanor Bureau within the Criminal Division. The Misdemeanor Bureau Chief provides strategic, legal, operational, and personnel leadership for all misdemeanor prosecution functions by supervising attorneys, law clerks, and support staff; overseeing case flow and court coverage; managing attorney and staff resources; establishing performance expectations; and ensuring consistent, effective, and ethical prosecution practices. A central responsibility of this role is the training, mentoring, and professional development of new prosecutors and law clerks. The Misdemeanor Bureau Chief plays a vital role in developing attorneys’ courtroom skills, legal analysis, judgment, trial advocacy, and understanding of prosecutorial duties. This role collaborates closely with the Attorney Trainer to develop and implement new attorney training programs and felony transition training. This includes guiding attorneys in case analysis, trial preparation, motion practice, and co trying jury cases with newer prosecutors. This role sets training benchmarks, evaluates attorney progress, identifies development needs, and prepares attorneys for increasing responsibilities within the Criminal Division. The Bureau Chief also participates in attorney recruitment, including coordinating and conducting on-and-off-campus interviews and engaging with law school career development programs. In addition, the Bureau Chief directs the professional development of law clerks by ensuring meaningful legal experience, proper supervision, and progressively responsible assignments. These opportunities may include legal research and writing, case analysis, evidence review, case preparation, courtroom exposure, and other prosecutorial functions permitted by law and court rules. The Bureau Chief works with supervising attorneys to provide consistent mentoring, feedback, and education in the professional and ethical responsibilities of prosecutors. This position is responsible for analyzing bureau workloads, caseload distribution, court calendars, staffing needs, case processing practices, and operational challenges, and for developing appropriate plans, assignments, policies, and solutions. The Bureau Chief collaborates closely with Criminal Division leadership, courts, law enforcement agencies, victim advocates, and other criminal justice partners to address legal and operational issues and advance efficient and effective misdemeanor case administration. Work is performed with substantial independence and requires exceptional judgment, discretion, leadership, accountability, and legal skill. This classification is in the unclassified service and is exempt from the Pima County Merit System Rules. Essential Functions: As defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this classification may include any of the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents of this class. Work assignments may vary depending on the department’s need and will be communicated to the applicant or incumbent by the supervisor. Supervises and leads attorneys and support staff of a respective bureau within the department; Supervises bureau activities involved in prosecution or defense of a variety of criminal and/or civil cases in Justice Court, Juvenile Court, Superior Court, Federal Court, Appellate Courts, and Administrative venues; Evaluates personnel and program performance; Makes recommendations to the Appointing Authority on matters including hiring, disciplinary actions, promotions, and employment termination; Manages and investigates complaints and ethical allegations; Supervises assignment of cases, prioritizes projects, and resolves workload and technical issues; Reviews case files and work products and ensures that quality standards are met; Develops charging decision guidelines, legal assessments and strategies, and office standards based on the law, strength of the case, and evidentiary standards; Provides advice and consultation to law enforcement agencies on investigations and case management; Manages complex and unusual cases and legal issues, and assists in preparing strategies to meet challenges from the opposition; Applies extensive knowledge of State of Arizona statues, case law, and judicial procedures and knowledge of County operations; Monitors and reviews trends in law enforcement and criminal justice issues, recommends operational, procedural and policy improvements, and provides guidance on regulatory, legislative and management issues; Acts as role model and ensures that integrity, professionalism, values, and goals of the assigned Department and County are maintained. Minimum Qualifications: Juris Doctorate AND ten (10) years of previous experience practicing law in criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings. OR: One year with Pima County in an Attorney Supervisor position. Qualifying education and experience must be clearly documented in the "Education" and "Work Experience" sections of the application. Do not substitute a resume for your application or write "see resume" on your application.   Preferred