Office Assistant 2

Pierce County Juvenile Court Opportunity

Pierce County Juvenile Court is a national leader in youth justice. Many of our policies, practices, and programs are recognized across the country. We are committed to improving outcomes for the whole community by working closely with young people and families. While our reform work has brought positive results, we know more progress is needed. Parts of the current system create wide-ranging differences in outcomes for children and families, especially those who have not been well served in the past.

If you want to help move this work forward, prepare young people for successful adulthood, and support change inside the system and in the community, this role offers that opportunity.

Your compassion, active listening, support, empowerment, and advocacy for young people and families will be valued. We welcome your perspective and talents. We believe people and systems can grow, and together we can make a strong impact in the community.

At Pierce County, our commitment to broad access and a welcoming workplace is ongoing. We work to create an environment where every employee has fair access to opportunities throughout their career. We aim to recruit, develop, and retain a skilled workforce with a wide range of experiences and perspectives, all dedicated to our mission. County employees make a direct and visible impact in our community. Will you join us in keeping Pierce County a place people are proud to call home?

Our guiding principles include: practicing gratitude, valuing differences, maintaining a growth mindset, choosing courage over comfort, and practicing authenticity.

To be successful in the role, bring your administrative talents and a mindset that all jobs in Juvenile Courts are measured for success by the ability to build and sustain positive relationships, coach, teach and mentor young people while maintaining healthy boundaries. The work that you do is essential in keeping everything operating to make the mission realized.

As the justice system continues to evolve, we welcome forward-thinking, creative, and compassionate people who thrive in fast-changing, innovative environments.

Core daily responsibilities include preparing and proofreading a variety of routine material and correspondence from written material, providing information and assistance in response to inquiries from the public, organizing, maintaining, and retrieving information and documents from files and records, managing procedural and routine correspondence and responding to requests for information that is readily available by reference to office records, taking minutes at meetings, coordinating meetings, maintaining simple bookkeeping, financial and statistical records requiring some technical accounting knowledge, performing general office management duties, fulfilling requests for publications or office supplies, operating standard modern office equipment and applications/software, assisting in specially assigned data searches to develop or recover information from non-standard sources, assisting in the training of other administrative staff, and performing other job functions as assigned.

Minimum requirements include one year of general office work. Education or other related experience can substitute. Ability to successfully complete a Pierce County background investigation is required prior to employment.

To be considered for this opportunity, please complete and submit an online Pierce County Employment Application by selecting "APPLY" above or go to: Attach the following documents to your online application: college transcripts or college diploma. If you do not have internet access, you may visit your local public library or any Work Source location and use their computers. Individuals needing accommodation in the application, testing process or need this job announcement in an alternative format may call Human Resources at View phone number on click.appcast.io, at least two days prior to the need. This is a competitive selection process. Your application form will be reviewed and evaluated for the quality and quantity of education/experience in the areas listed. Applicants whose qualifications most closely correspond to the County's needs will be eligible for further consideration. Short notice may be given to applicants to participate in further selection processes which may include written and/or oral examinations, performance examinations, and interviews. Notification of application status normally occurs 4 to 6 weeks after the closing date. Please do not contact us regarding the status of your application. You will be contacted once an outcome has been reached. We primarily communicate via e-mail during the application process. E-mails from piercecounty.org and/or neogov.com must be placed on your safe domain list to ensure that you receive notifications in a timely manner. As a precaution, you may also want to check your junk e-mail folders. For your application materials to be considered, all information must be submitted by the closing date and time listed on this job announcement.

Pierce County offers a competitive benefits package that offers flexibility and peace of mind. We are proud to offer Employee Resource Groups, a focus on professional development in our Leadership Training Program, and a County Book Club. We understand that your life revolves around more than just your career and that your priority is making sure that you and your family maintain health and financial security. That's why choice is a key component of our benefits package. We have a selection of health and retirement plans, paid leave, staff training and other compensation benefits that you can mix and match to meet your current and future needs.