The City and County of Denver seeks a Chief Medical Examiner to lead the Office of the Medical Examiner and serve as Denver's Coroner.

The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner investigates deaths in the City and County of Denver that are required to be reported by Colorado statute. The office is responsible for the subsequent certification of the cause and manner of death. The Medical Examiner/Coroner's Office employs 21 people and has an annual budget of $2.78 million. It is involved with the investigation of over 3,000 deaths and assumes jurisdiction of almost 11,000 deaths annually in the City and County of Denver.

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REPONSIBILITIES:
• Directs, plans, organizes, and evaluates the activities of the Medical Examiner’s Office, establishes the overall goals for the office, develops long range and short term planning objectives, and oversees the development of policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal directives and regulations.
• Establishes standards for conducting forensic autopsies and other forensic work, responds to homicide and other death scenes as necessary, confers with medical and investigative personnel to make determinations as to the cause and manner of death, and performs postmortem examinations according to established division protocol to determine the cause and manner of death.
• Collaborates with law enforcement and attorneys including defense council when preparing court cases and gives testimony regarding postmortem findings and expert opinions in trials and other legal forums.
• Acts as a liaison to the public and the media, issues official public statements, and meets with families of deceased persons to discuss autopsy findings and the results of the investigation.
• Prepares staffing plans and submits requests to higher level managers to meet organizational, functional, and/or operational requirements.
• Manages and directs subordinate staff, sets priorities, provides general guidance and instruction on expected outcomes, and delegates and reviews work.