Closing Date: 16th November, 2025
Description:
The Position:Are you ready to explore new opportunities in your legal career with a team that protects the public interest by ensuring the integrity of legalized gaming? Join the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) in this Assistant Chief Counsel 1 position. Our agency is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards in all of its operations. Achieve your goals with a team where your experience and dedication are rewarded!
Description of Work:
In this role, you will perform a wide variety of non-supervisory professional legal work. This includes research, drafting memoranda to the PGCB on matters coming before it, drafting opinions and pleadings, performing legal regulatory work, and representing the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) before courts of law or other regulatory tribunals. Our team will rely on you to analyze and organize facts, evidence, and precedents inherent in moderately complex cases and to present such materials in memoranda opinions and orders, as well as deal tactfully and effectively with state administrative officials, local government officials, employees, court officials, and the general public. Join our team to achieve your professional goals while maintaining and enhancing public trust in legalized gaming with honesty, integrity, and credibility!
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
- Full-time employment
- Work hours are 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 60-minute lunch.
- Telework: You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework). In order to telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Harrisburg. The ability to telework is subject to change at any time. Additional details may be provided during the interview.
- Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
- You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.
Required Experience, Training & Eligibility:
Qualifications:
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
Additional Requirement:
Preferred Qualification (not required):
Legal Requirements:
How to Apply:
Veterans:
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):
If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.
The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.
- Graduated from an accredited school of law and certificate of admission to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Additional Requirement:
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
Preferred Qualification (not required):
- Experience in administrative law, trial work, and brief writing a plus.
Legal Requirements:
- Employment is contingent upon the completion of a Personal History Questionnaire with a thorough background investigation, including drug screening and the subsequent review and approval by the Board.
How to Apply:
- Your application must include a resume and writing sample.
- If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be accepted toward meeting the minimum requirements. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
- Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
- Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
Veterans:
- Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. 7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):
- 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).
If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.
The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.
