Legal Secretarial Assistant IV - Family Court

Legal Secretarial Assistant IV - Family Court

The Family Court Division is a fast-paced citywide division that is committed to the ethical practice of law as it relates to the City's children, families, and communities. The Division Chief Secretary position requires the highest level of discretion, professionalism, and adherence to rules of confidentiality and fairness. In addition to general secretarial duties, duties may include but are not limited to: Calendar, time, communications, records, and information management; High level meeting attendance, briefing and follow up; Maintaining a daily citywide dashboard; Typing, formatting, copying, and editing confidential complex documents for attorneys and other staff; timely completion of internal and external presentations and correspondence and communications; Transcribing and summarizing documents, correspondence; Creating and maintaining statistical reports utilizing a variety of agency software applications; Transcribing notes at in-person meetings; Maintaining and auditing virtual and physical administrative files; Managing e-mail of Division Chief and/or Deputy Division Chiefs; Performing reception and receptionist duties for Family Court Administration; Maintaining citywide conference rooms including by booking them and working with Facilities for room set up; and maintaining Teams, zoom and conference call line calendars; Conducting quality assurance of citywide data; Providing administrative support for special projects; Assisting in planning and providing administrative guidance for training and other events and meetings with new employees; Assisting in the preparation of high profile cases assigned to high level staff; Disseminating information to staff as directed and following up on assignments; Providing clerical support for assignments requiring data entry and manual processes; Maintaining and distributing the office phone lists and personnel roster; Maintaining the Division SharePoint and public website platforms; May conduct research using a library or a computerized legal research system; May conduct routine internet research; Travel to and support of Borough Offices. All the work of the Family Court Division contributes to our mission which is to serve the children families and communities of NYC. The Division Chief Secretary is an integral part of that mission. The primary roles of the position are set out above; however, the role may change as required by our work.

This a level 4 Legal Secretarial Assistant position, and the candidate would be required to report to the Division Chief and/or Deputy Division Chief. LEGAL SECRETARIAL ASST- L2,3,4 - 1022A