CHIEF OF STAFF

Essential Functions

• Subject to management approval, develops and implements agencywide operational policies, procedures, and standards to ensure consistency across all ILCC divisions.
• Serves as the Executive Director’s primary representative and liaison across internal and external stakeholders.
• Leads agencywide strategic coordination, policy alignment, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Serves as full-line supervisor of assigned managerial staff.
• Provides executive oversight of strategic budgeting and resource planning.
• Conducts executive-level management meetings and ensures effective communication across the organization.
• Manages sensitive and confidential assignments for the Executive Director.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires four (4) years of college with coursework in public or business administration.
• Requires four (4) years of progressively responsible administrative/managerial experience in a public or business organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefers extensive knowledge of strategic planning, operational oversight, change management, budget development, forecasting, and resource allocation, with demonstrated ability to analyze, interpret, implement, and improve policies, rules, procedures, and programs, and to exercise sound independent judgment in confidential and complex situations.
• Prefers three (3) years of experience supervising, evaluating, training, and developing staff; assigning and reviewing work; managing performance; recommending or administering discipline; leading cross-functional teams and organizational improvement initiatives; and resolving sensitive personnel and operational issues through collaboration, negotiation, consensus-building, and conflict resolution.
• Prefers thorough knowledge of preparing executive-level reports, recommendations, and policy documents; representing an agency or executive in meetings with stakeholders, including boards, commissions, and elected or appointed officials; establishing and maintaining effective professional relationships; and communicating effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Prefers thorough knowledge of public administration, regulatory compliance, law/policy, or program management operations, preferably in licensing/enforcement/compliance, with a demonstrated ability to interpret and apply state/federal statutes, rules, and regulations.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires completion of a background check and self-disclosure of criminal history.
• Overtime is a condition of employment, and you may be requested or required/mandated to work overtime including scheduled, unscheduled, or last-minute overtime. This may require the ability to work evenings and weekends.
• Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties, with overnight stays as appropriate. Requires a valid, appropriate driver’s license.
• This position prohibits convictions of any Federal or State law concerning the manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquor.
• This position prohibits convictions for driving under the influence (DUI).
• Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during state employment or within one year immediately after ending State employment, the employee shall, prior to accepting any such non-State employment offer, notify the Office of the Executive Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor (OEIG) or may be subject to a fine.
• This position has been found to meet the requirements in section 4A-101 of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act requiring the occupant/employee to file a Statement of Economic Interest. The Illinois Governmental Ethics Act (5 ILCS 420/4A et seq.) requires certain state officials and employees to file annual Statements of Economic Interest with the Office of the Secretary of State that will be made available for examination and copying by the public. All employees required to file a Statement of Economic Interest are also required to file the Supplemental Statement of Economic Interest with the Executive Ethics Commission. (See Executive Order 15-09) Fines and penalties apply to untimely filings.
• No Illinois Liquor Control Commission employee or immediate family member may, directly or indirectly, individually or as a member of a partnership, or as a shareholder of a corporation, have any interest whatsoever in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of alcoholic liquor.
• No Illinois Liquor Control Commission employee or immediate family member may receive any compensation or profit from, nor have any interest in the purchases or sales made by the persons authorized (liquor license) or to purchase or to sell alcoholic liquor.
• The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.