Administrative Support III - COUNTY COUNSELOR

Department:  COUNTY COUNSELOR

Pay:  $18.23 per hour  

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm  

Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities.  For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SCBenefits.

This position provides administrative and clerical support in the day-to-day operations of case, file, and document management. It also provides administrative and clerical support to the Assistant County Counselor handling Eminent Domain cases, gives support to the other attorneys in the office as needed, and performs Deputy County Court Clerk duties.

Case, File, and Document Management

• Prepare, review, and edit correspondence, court filings, exhibits, and other documents as required.
• Prepare documents to process petitions for alteration of fire district boundaries.
• Catalogue and Scan open records requests and responses.
• Copy and process reports and other routine documents as necessary.
• Assist in preparing documents for scanning and records storage.
• Assist in maintaining and updating the Lateral File Index

Administrative Support for Assistant County Counselors

• Create and Process Agenda Items as necessary.
• Sort and distribute mail, and maintain mail log as required.
• Track county resolutions, and maintain resolution spreadsheet.
• Review official county newspaper for resolution publications.
• Maintain and manage quarterly updates to County Code books and Municode.
• Maintain Eminent Domain Case Files with current information.
• Maintain Adult Entertainment digital records with current information.
• Track and process claims received from the Sedgwick County Adult Detention Facility.
• Assist attorneys with document searches as requested.
• Notarize legal documents.
• Redact legal documents as necessary before filing.
• Bate stamp exhibits and other documents as required.

Perform County Court Duties as the Deputy County Court Clerk

• Assist with entering citations into Case Management System.
• Assist with training all new county citation writers on paperwork, required evidence, and procedures related to the citation process.
• Prepare County Court KORA requests and discovery requests.
• Prepare County Court documents for scanning and storage.
• Monitor and respond to emails sent to the County Court Office email
• Fill in and performing the standard duties of the County Court Clerk as needed.

Minimum Qualifications: High School Diploma or equivalent supplemented by administrative and/or clerical/secretarial courses. Four years’ experience in responsible secretarial work or any equivalent experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities. A high degree of confidentiality and professionalism is required.

It is the policy of Sedgwick County not to discriminate in its programs or services, including employment, on the basis of race, color, sex, including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, marital status, religious or political affiliation, genetic information, disability, status as a member of the uniformed services or any other similarly protected status.

Sedgwick County is committed to making the application, interview, and pre-employment testing process accessible to qualified persons with disabilities as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you wish to volunteer information regarding any special assistance you may need, please contact the Sedgwick County ADA Coordinator at (316) 660-7050, TDD (Kansas Relay at 711 or 800-766-3777). Please do not use this phone number for employment questions. Applicants are contacted only if they are determined to be qualified candidates. 

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