Section Chief, Health Professions
Company: DHRM
Location: Richmond
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Title: Section Chief, Health Professions State Role Title:
Senior Assistant Attorney General Hiring Range: Commensurate with
Experience Pay Band: UG Agency: Attorney General & Dept of Law
Location: Office of the Attorney General Agency Website:
https://www.oag.state.va.us/ Recruitment Type: General Public - G
Job Duties Chief Objective This attorney serves as Section Chief of
the Health Professions Section and will take on the duties of
managing and supervising Section attorneys and staff, aid in
advising the Virginia Department of Health Professions (DHP), and
supervise and engage in administrative prosecutions involving
misconduct before Virginia health professions boards. The Section
conducts the administrative prosecution of cases involving health
care practitioners licensed, certified, or registered to practice
in Virginia and certain health care establishments permitted to
operate in Virginia before the 13 thirteen health regulatory boards
within the Virginia Department of Health Professions (DHP). The
Section’s attorneys provide advice and representation of a
prosecutorial nature to the boards within DHP, including Virginia’s
Boards of Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology, Counseling,
Dentistry, Funeral Directors & Embalmers, Long-Term Care
Administrators, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry, Pharmacy, Physical
Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, and Veterinary Medicine. This
attorney manages the three attorneys in the Health Professions
Section to ensure that high quality legal services are provided in
a timely manner. In addition, this attorney manages their own
caseload as necessary. The Attorney General’s Office has a
three-day in-office policy, with two days of telework per week
after an initial probationary period for new hires. Work Tasks and
Duties: • Manage and supervise Section attorneys and staff. •
Review legal advice provided by Section attorneys. • Review
pleadings and memoranda on legal issues arising in DHP cases. •
Assist Section attorneys in providing legal advice as necessary. •
Represent the Commonwealth at formal hearings. • Draft and review
memoranda of agreement between OAG and DHP. • Serve as liaison
between DHP and OAG on disciplinary matters. • Draft and finalize
weekly reports for senior OAG management. • Draft and finalize
annual report of the Section’s accomplishments. Minimum
Qualifications • Active license in good standing to practice law in
Virginia. • Knowledge of Virginia law. • Knowledge of Virginia
administrative law. • Knowledge of statutory and regulatory law
pertaining to professions regulated by the Health Professions
Boards within DHP. • Knowledge of legal research procedures and the
ability to perform thorough legal research. • Knowledge of the
preparation of Notices of Formal Hearings, Statements of
Allegations, Formal Hearing Orders, Summary Suspension Orders, and
Consent Orders for disciplinary cases before the DHP Boards. •
Knowledge of the preparation and presentation of arguments for
cases before the DHP Boards. • Knowledge of the practices and
procedures of the OAG. • Knowledge of the applicable rules and
procedures in administrative proceedings before the DHP Boards. •
Ability to manage attorneys and administrative staff. • Ability to
communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing. • Ability to
use good judgment, tact, and discretion. • Ability to quickly
assimilate oral and written data, to analyze facts, and draw
logical conclusions. • Ability to express legal interpretations or
conclusions of law clearly and logically in oral and written form.
• Ability to provide direction to other attorneys and to
adjudication specialists and consultants within DHP. • Ability to
maintain records, and prepare reports and correspondence related to
work, • Ability to coordinate and function as a lead attorney in
highly complex cases. • Ability to identify and analyze issues and
problems in human relations and to recommend and implement
solutions. • Ability to organize work, establish priorities, and
maintain good interpersonal relationships and communications with
other attorneys and support staff, as well as effective working
relationships with other government officials and the general
public. • Ability to maintain favorable public relationships and
good interpersonal relationships with DHP staff. • Ability to
supervise and lead. • Ability to persuade and build consensus. •
Computer literacy to include proficiency with Microsoft Office
Suite, Net Documents, and LawBase. • Ability to manage time
effectively and to record time for billing purposes. Special
Instructions Please use the Virginia Jobs website
(https://www.jobs.virginia.gov) to submit your application.
Applications sent to the Recruitment email address below will not
be reviewed for the hiring process. We do not entertain phone calls
or email messages inquiring about application status; instead,
please log in to the PageUp/RMS system for updates on your
application’s status. Contact Information Name: OAG Recruitment
Phone: 804-786-2071 Email: recruitment@oag.state.va.us In support
of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging
individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth
Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity,
applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD)
provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services
(DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI).
Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status
questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable,
to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can
be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019. Note :
Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or
DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use
that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring
Process.
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