Court Specialist

Employees at this level perform specialized court functions such as clerical, customer service, fiscal and record-keeping work related to the business operations of the court division. Employees undertake a wide range of duties and are required to be cross trained to learn and fulfill the requirements of more than one job. Work is performed in accordance with established rules, policies, and statutes.

All employees must be able to attend court and satisfactorily perform the tasks associated with the assigned proceeding. All employees must be able to assist at the counter and answer the court designated phone calls.

The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Participate in and successfully complete all introductory court learning curriculum for each business unit in the Courts Division.
• Provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers. Customer base consists of the public, local and state governmental and judicial agencies, attorneys, and employees of the Clerk’s Office.
• Provide information to the public about the Clerk's programs and services; answer customer questions at the counter and over the telephone.
• Work under pressure with specific timelines and mandated state and/or agency standard.
• Work independently in the absence of supervision.

• Organize, plan, and prioritize work.
• Open new cases in the case maintenance system.

• Receive, review, and process court documents in the case maintenance system through e-filing and the mail.
• Ability to tolerate exposure to evidence and testimony, such as photographs of crime scenes and victims; evidence may include syringes, drugs, weapons, blood and unpleasant odors, sexually explicit materials, defendants, and witnesses who may potentially be verbally offensive.
• Swear in witnesses in the courtroom and customers at the counter.
• Perform basic cashiering functions for processing various payments for fees, fines, and charges assessed.
• Balance daily receipts to monies received and perform bank deposit activities as assigned.
• Process incoming and outgoing mail and make deliveries and pick-ups to other Clerk Office departments and other agencies.
• Back-scan case files into the case maintenance system.
• Prepare documents as required by law and court standards.
• Court Processing: Maintain wills and mortgages. Receive, review, and process more complex court documents in the case maintenance system through e-filing and the mail.
• Court Services: Perform court clerk duties such as accurately record case dispositions, court orders, continuances, costs assessed, mark exhibits and secure evidence in the vault, and prepare court disposition papers for all court proceedings. Perform jury functions such as generating jury pools and jury selection process. Process bail bonds.
• Customer Service: Process child support orders and enter child support cases into the state system. Assist customers through the customer service call center. Assist in the Domestic Violence and Self-Help Center unit as needed.
• Domestic Violence/Self-Help: Assist pro se litigants either filing an action or responding to an action without the assistance of an attorney.
• Other duties as assigned.
• The Collier Clerk’s Office values the team building benefits of in-person onsite collaboration. This is an on-site position.

• High School Diploma or a GED equivalent, and six months of clerical, customer service, banking, paralegal, criminal justice, or other related work experience. Any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job may be substituted for the education and experience requirement. Some college-level or certificate-type program courses in business, accounting, criminal justice, or paralegal studies preferred.
• Ability to complete all required introductory court learning curriculum for each business unit in the Courts Division.

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