Career Opportunities
About the Office
The Office of Attorney General Keith Ellison has a clear mission: we help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. We are a dynamic group of dedicated professionals who choose public service as a calling, and we are actively and intentionally committed to supporting an internal culture that affirms that calling. The Office is one of Minnesota’s largest public law offices and as of 2024, has been recognized as a Star Tribune Top Workplace Minnesota for five years in a row and Top Workplace USA for four years in a row.
Current Openings
Accounting Budget Professional
Posting Number: 87559 • Closing Date: 7/31/2025
The Accounting Budget Professional coordinates accounting structures and operations, ensures compliance with established budgetary guidelines, and collaborates with leadership to implement and manage biennial and capital budgets. This role includes preparing financial models for long-range planning, forecasting, and assessment of financial matters.
Assistant Attorney General - Criminal Appeals
Posting Number: 87687 • Closing Date: 8/4/2025
The Office is currently seeking an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Appeals division of the Office. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified professional to join a highly committed team that handles important public safety and legal matters for the State of Minnesota. Duties of the position will primarily include representing the prosecution in appeals. The position also includes training law enforcement officers and attorneys and serving as a resource for other divisions of the office and prosecutors throughout Minnesota.
Extern – Fall 2025 – Statewide Expungment Program
Closing Date: 8/22/2025
The AGO initiated a Statewide Expungement Program to help people request to seal criminal records without going to court, hiring a lawyer, or paying a filing fee. The Student Extern will be working with the Statewide Expungement Program and will be assisting with reviewing applications, maintaining files, and drafting proposed orders and stipulations
Purchasing Coordinator
Posting Number: 87664 • Closing Date: 8/5/2025
The Office is currently seeking a Purchasing Coordinator in the Finance Division of the Office. A successful candidate in this position will be able to:
- Conduct effective and equitable purchasing within the Department of Administration’s and the Office’s requirements, policies and procedures to meet Office needs for services, supplies, and equipment
- Create and maintain purchase orders in the SWIFT (State-Wide Integrated Financial Tools) system
- Assist in the procurement, selection and execution of contract agreements in compliance with the Department of Administration’s and the Office’s requirements, policies and procedures
Our differences make us stronger and leveraging them helps us create a workforce where everyone can thrive. The State of Minnesota is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to embedding diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility at our workplace. We do this by developing strong leaders and advocates, increasing cultural competence, and understanding among all employees, and removing institutional barriers and attitudes that prevent employees from advancing as far as their talents will take them. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), marital status, familial status, receipt of public assistance, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, or age.
We will make reasonable accommodations to all qualified applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability who needs assistance or cannot access the online job application system, please contact the job information line at (651) 259-3637 or email careers@state.mn.us. Please indicate what assistance you need.
