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Under general direction, the Deputy District Attorney I/II/III performs legal work in the enforcement of laws; prosecutes criminal cases as assigned by the District Attorney; advises the general public and law enforcement officers on criminal matters; and does related work as required. The position is scheduled for forty (40) hours per week.

JOB DUTIES

• Prepare legal briefs for motions and appeals; prepares affidavits for search and arrest warrants; prepares trial briefs, checks questions of law.
• Provides legal and investigative analysis to police agencies; prepares briefs or opinions concerning law as applied to the jurisdiction of the District Attorney.
• Anticipates legal reasoning of defense attorneys and drafts jury instructions; presents opening statements, interrogates, and cross examines witnesses, argues points of law and makes final arguments or summations.
• Issues subpoenas; attends court pretrial conferences outside of court; represents the court in criminal calendar proceedings, including the scheduling of cases, pleas, negotiations, probation revocation hearings, motions, and sentencings.

The County of Yuba is currently accepting applications to establish an eligibility list for the position of Business Analyst in the District Attorney's Office. Under general direction, ensures a department’s technical needs are met by analyzing and documenting business processes and providing related application configuration and support; concentrates on the technical needs of the business and the implementation, maintenance, and optimization of various solutions using a combination of business and technical knowledge; utilizes computer analytics and data mining strategies to provide valuable and accurate trends that lead to system optimization and strategically guided decision making; and performs related work as assigned.  

Note: This is a County-Wide classification. The eligible list established from this recruitment may be used to fill additional vacancies for this classification that may come available in other departments during the duration of this list.

This is a stand-alone exempt classification.   

Examples of Duties:

• Consult with department management to identify, define, and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, and input and output requirements; participate in discussions of departmental goals and objectives with executive management.
• Evaluate existing County business process models to identify potential areas for automation and streamlining.
• Seek ways to continuously improve the policies, procedures, and standards to enhance the delivery and security of County services.
• Plan, organize, and conduct research, analytical, and evaluation studies of department operations, functionality, and management systems; collect, tabulate and analyze a wide variety of data to determine trends, cycles, and underlying factors.
• Design and develop solution testing plans, strategies and quality management tools to ensure appropriate results prior to final implementation; review solution defects and make strategy adjustments as needed; plan implementation timeline.
• Prepare complex analytical reports outlining study findings as well as process improvement solutions and analyses; prepare charts, graphs, tables, and other visual tools to summarize results; make graphic and oral presentations to individuals and groups.
• Design complex data tools and system queries; develop intermediate/advanced queries, macros and applications. Examples may include MySQL and SQL queries .NET application development as required, VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macro and application development within Microsoft Office Suite applications.
• Design, implement, and maintain system set-up tables and parameters to ensure compliance with state and federal requirements; interpret and analyze new or updated regulations to identify needed system changes.
• Utilize advanced spreadsheet functionality, business intelligence, and other data analysis platforms to generate reports and dashboards for both internal management use and external transparency efforts. Examples may include Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI. 

The County of Yuba is currently recruiting for the position of Deputy County Counsel II/III in the Office of County Counsel. Under the direction of the County Counsel and Chief Deputy County Counsel, attorneys in this series perform professional legal work by preparing and trying civil cases and providing legal counsel and assistance to the County, it’s officers, associated boards and commissions, as well as outside agencies; assist departments in interpreting regulations on a wide range of topics; represent officers and employees in litigation; and perform duties as assigned.  The Deputy County Counsel I/II/III classification is flexibly staffed and depending on background and experience, may be filled directly at the Deputy County Counsel II or III level. Involvement in formal litigation and discretionary authority increases as the incumbent progresses through the various levels.

• Researches, interprets and applies laws, court decision, statutes, ordinances and other legal authorities for use in the preparation of legal opinions, briefs, pleadings, notes, and memoranda; prepares legal reports, opinions, briefs and appeals of average difficulty under general supervision.  
• Represents, confers with and advises County officials, employees and district representatives on legal questions pertaining to their respective powers, duties, functions and obligations; may attend meetings of boards and commissions in order to provide legal advice and counsel.  
• Represents, confers with, and advises clients of the Office of the County Counsel with respect to all aspects of civil law, including litigation in the area of probate, police powers, zoning, planning, social services, health care, child welfare, disciplinary appeals and grievances, real and personal property, assessment and taxation, and other civil areas of public law.  
• Researches and prepares formal written ordinances, resolutions, contracts, agreements, leases, conveyances and other legal documents.

Examples of Duties Level II (in addition to the above):

• Prepares pleadings and other papers in connection with trials, hearings and other legal proceedings; performs research, investigation and detailed legal preparation for the trial or defense of the County in cases involving condemnation, damage or other civil suits.  
• Makes recommendations to the County Counsel concerning the advisability to prosecute, compromise or dismiss civil litigation.
• Drafts proposed legislation, analyzes pending legislation and recommends County position on legislation.

Examples of Duties Level III (in addition to the above):

• Prepares difficult legal reports, opinions, briefs and appeals using independent judgment and discretion.  
• Attends meetings of boards and commissions in order to provide legal advice and counsel.