Administrative Law Hearing Officer

About This Role

Serving people who are legally interested in a case and dissatisfied with an Agency Decision, this role involves conducting hearings for unemployment appeals. The officer presides over single-party and less complex appeals, ensuring due process rights are protected and issuing written decisions based on findings of fact and legal conclusions.

Responsibilities

• Stay up to date with relevant federal and state statutes, case law, rules and regulations, and Employment Security Division's policies and procedures
• Prepare for hearings by reading electronic case files and applicable laws
• Call hearings to order, identify participants, explain procedures, and administer oaths
• Ensure hearings progress by allowing only legally relevant evidence to be presented
• Ensure all parties' due process rights to be heard are fully protected
• Write grammatically correct decisions with express findings of fact and legally supportable conclusions of law
• Determine whether the Agency Decision under appeal should be affirmed, modified, or set aside
• Train other unemployment hearing officers as needed
• Perform other duties as may from time to time be needed

Requirements

• Doctor of Jurisprudence degree
• Valid driver's license

Substitution of Experience for Education:

• Experience equivalent to five years of adjudicating unemployment claims with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development may be substituted for the possession of a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree requirement

Important Details

• Application deadline: 19 October 2026, 11:59PM Central Time

About the Company

This position is located in the Appeals Unit of the Unemployment Insurance Division within the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.