Medicolegal Office Coordinator

Starting Hourly Rate:  $23.17
Salary is commensurate with experience.

Dauphin County Coroner's Office is currently accepting applications for the full-time position of Medicolegal Office Coordinator. The overall objective of the employee in this role is to work closely with the Coroner, Chief Deputy Coroner, Assistant Chief Deputy Coroner, and Deputy Coroners in order to support the daily operations of the Dauphin County Forensic Center (DCFC). The employee in this role will perform administrative and forensic center functions to assure efficient operation of the DCFC. The employee in this role receives communication, supervision, and instruction from the Coroner, the Chief Deputy Coroner, the Assistant Chief Deputy Coroner. The employee in this role is responsible for but not limited to performing the following essential functions:

• Must be able to effectively communicate and liaison with DCFC staff, law enforcement and other public safety entities, other County agencies and departments, funeral homes, and the public.
• Participates in the medicolegal death investigation process, to include but not limited to the following: triaging incoming communications to ascertain for Coroner jurisdiction; review for approval or disapproval of cremation authorization requests; obtaining medical records; follow-ups on active and/or completed investigations; follow-ups with partnering agencies; and other duties of a similar nature.
• Composes letters, memos, reports, and other documents as required; responds to public record requests.
• Establishes and maintains files and statistics required within the department. 
• Assists families and other case appropriate entities in navigating the investigative death process; must be able to perform this function with compassion and sensitivity. 
• Assists with budget estimates and other fiscal and statistical reports; processes invoicing and billing; performs ordering of office and forensic center supplies.
• Works with and around deceased individuals; assists with the physical movement of deceased individuals; must be able to lift over 50 pounds and be able to do moderate physical work; assists with intake and release of deceased individuals.
• Uses universal precautions when acting in the lab.
• Works with logistics of evidence handling and toxicology specimens send-outs.
• Performs all other job-related duties as required.

Salary is commensurate with experience.

Minimum Educational, Experience, and Training Requirements:

1. High school diploma.
2. Proficiency in medical terminology.
3. Experience preferable in medical, legal, investigative, and/or administrative environment or any acceptable combination of experience and/or training.
4. Has an academic and experiential understanding of the medicolegal death investigation process.
5. Has an understanding of universal precautions.
6. Must be able to work independently in a fast paced and sometimes chaotic environment, must be able to multi-task and prioritize job duties, must be able to stay collected under sometimes stressful conditions.
7. Favorable criminal background check result.

Dauphin County is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to an inclusive workplace free of discrimination and harassment. Dauphin County prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.