WSLCB Vision
Safe communities for Washington State
Who we are
Our mission is to promote public safety and trust through fair administration and enforcement of liquor, tobacco and marijuana laws. The Liquor and Cannabis Board is a high-profile and dynamic agency with more than 300 employees dedicated to safe communities statewide. At the Washington State Liquor Control Board (WSLCB) we pride ourselves on creating the “wow” factor in everything we do. We search for people who demonstrate a strong work ethic, excellence in customer service, partnering and teamwork, and quality performance. We strive to be a great place to work by fostering a safe, open, inclusive and healthy work environment. We want to ensure that our organization is as diverse and inclusive as our great State of Washington. We want to create a culture that fosters excellence in customer service, open and honest communication, transparency and accountability, data driven decisions, and business initiated process improvement.
Your opportunity at a glance
WSLCB is seeking to fill a Marijuana Examiner (Administrative Regulations Analyst 3) position. The Marijuana Examiner acts as a liaison between Liquor and Cannabis Board and marijuana producers and processors, and other state agencies on non-licensing, financial and enforcement issues. The position acts as a subject matter expert in certain aspects of the marijuana industry and marijuana regulatory structure, acting as a resource on understanding marijuana production and specified compliance requirements under rule, including packaging, record keeping, sample jars, standardized scales, security requirements, allowable pesticides, soil amendments, fertilizers, other crop production aids, and destruction of waste. The position will support ongoing work and partnerships with other state agencies such as Washington State Dept. of Agriculture and Dept. of Ecology including coordination with Washington State University to help maintain the allowable pesticides list on their Pesticide Information Center Online (PICOL) Database.
Duties:
- Maintain expert level knowledge and researching general marijuana industry processes compliance requirements under rule.
- Provide support to licensing and enforcement activities to ensure retailers are compliant with POS system, security requirements, record keeping, and destruction of waste, sample jars, and transaction limits.
- Analyze data and train people at WSLCB on requirements and use of the traceability system.
- Conduct analysis of the data submitted in the traceability system in support of enforcement, licensing and finance operations.
- Write briefs and disseminating findings.
- Work with contracted vendors and manage the third party lab certification process and the random pesticide and metals testing program.
- Compile reports and prepare necessary documents for conducting inventory verifications.
- Provide guidance and on site technical assistance to enforcement staff and produce reports on findings.
- Work closely with other Marijuana Examiners, enforcement staff, licensees, and contracted vendors to determine need for new functionality or updates to current functionality in the seed to sale traceability system.
- Analyze new legislation and WAC to determine impacts to traceability requirements.
- Actively working with our contracted vendor to ensure the Traceability System is meeting licensee and WSLCB needs.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, law, public health, health administration, or a related field and two or more years of experience conducting research and analyzing policies, laws, rules, or regulations or comparable combination of graduate education and experience. (Additional experience conducting research and analyzing policies, laws, rules, or regulations can be substituted year for year for education.)
- Ability to deliver exceptional customer service to internal and external customers.
- Intermediate skills in Excel.
- Ability to analyze and interpret complex data and present results in a manner that is appropriate to you audience.
- Ability to read, understand, interpret, and explain a wide range of complex documents, policies, rules and law relating to the marijuana industry and regulatory system.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
Preferred/Desired Qualifications :
- Master’s degree in business administration, public administration, law, public health, health administration, or a related field and four or more years of experience conducting research and analyzing policies, laws, rules, or regulations or comparable combination of graduate education and experience.
- Experience working in a liaison capacity representing an organization and working with a diverse group of other government and private organizations. Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to build mutually beneficial relationships within and outside the Liquor Control Board.
- Ability to speak publically and prepare and give presentations and trainings.
- Advanced skills and demonstrated experience in data analysis.
- Experience working with databases, including writing queries.
- Advanced skills in Excel, including the ability to summarize and create charts and reports from data.
- Ability to write clear and concise brief summaries and reports for executive leaders.
- General knowledge of the marijuana industry at the producer, processor, and retail levels.
- General knowledge of marijuana laws and rules including requirements in rule for traceability, quality assurance testing, packaging, processing plant material into extracts and infused products, and pesticides.
- General knowledge the medical marijuana industry, and SB 5052, and HB 2136.
Supplemental Information:
HOW TO APPLY
IMPORTANT: To be considered for this position, you MUST include the following, failure to do so WILL result in your application being disqualified:
1. Resume, detailing experience and education.
2. Letter of interest, describing how you meet the specific qualifications for the position.
3. At least three professional references with current telephone numbers.
**A resume will not substitute for completing the “work experience” section of the application.
**The information provided in your application must support your selected answers in the supplemental questions. Answers will be verified and documentation may be required. Responses not supported in your application will disqualify you for consideration of employment from this recruitment.
Other
Applicants for employment with the Washington State Liquor Control Board should be aware of RCW 66.08.080, which states in part: “No employee of the board shall have any interest, directly or indirectly, in the manufacture of liquor sold under this title, or derive any profit or remuneration from the sale of liquor, other than the salary or wages payable to him in respect of his office or position, and shall receive no gratuity from any person in connection with such business.
RCW 69.50.351, no member of the state liquor control board and no employee of the state liquor control board shall have any interest, directly or indirectly, in the producing, processing, or sale of marijuana, useable marijuana, or marijuana-infused products, or derive any profit or remuneration from the sale of marijuana, useable marijuana, or marijuana-infused products other than the salary or wages payable to him or her in respect of his or her office or position, and shall receive no gratuity from any person in connection with the business.
WSLCB is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity diversity, age, honorably discharged veteran, veteran status, genetic information, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability.
For questions about this recruitment, or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email rss@liq.wa.gov or call (360) 664.1636. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.
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