Administrative Secretary
State of Florida
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Sanford • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $33,760 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Providing support to a team of paralegals and attorneys assigned to our Children’s Legal Services program
- Preparing Notices of Filings of legal documents and summonses
- Creating, maintaining, and closing case files
- Transporting legal documents to and from the courthouse daily
- Answering phones
- Filing documents in case files and with the court
- Sorting and distributing paper mail and electronic mail
- Operating copy machine
- Entering data timely and accurately into statewide databases
- Tracking court calendar activities
- Transmitting work electronically to other locations
- Preparing travel reimbursement requests
- Preparing witness requests
- Monitoring and ordering office supplies
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of office professionalism and practices
- Computer experience, particularly with Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
- Ability to use copying and fax machine
- Ability to organize files and other records
- Ability to enter data in records management systems
- Ability to handle telephone calls in a courteous and effective manner
- Prior experience working in a legal office preferred
Benefits
- affordable health insurance plans & options
- liberal sick leave and annual leave policy
- tuition waiver program through state colleges and universities
- 9 holidays and 1 personal day
- FRS Investment or FRS Pension plan
- numerous pre-tax and post-tax benefit options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data entryrecords managementcase file managementlegal document preparationcourt filingcalendar trackingtravel reimbursement processingwitness request preparation
Soft skills
communicationorganizationprofessionalismcourtesyeffectiveness