Legal Assistant - Hermitage

Overview

Are you looking for a challenging work environment that will allow you to showcase your legal knowledge and experience? The Department of Labor & Industry, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (UC ) Hermitage Referee Office is seeking a highly motivated and organized professional to provide essential support for referee staff in the processing of unemployment compensation appeals. This role involves handling complex legal issues and requires dedication, a positive attitude, and excellent organizational skills.

Join our team to play a key part of the legal processes that ensure workers’ rights under Pennsylvania UC law are upheld and respected.

In this role, you will provide support to an Appeals Referee and the UC  referee office through a wide range of duties involving hearings, decisions, public contact, and additional office functions.

• Manage the referee’s hearing schedule and ensure incoming dockets are properly associated.
• Process incoming documents and prepare hearing notices.
• Transcribe decisions from recordings and type and proofread these documents, ensuring that all issues of law and weeks of benefits are covered and that the order and disposition relate to findings of fact and reasoning.
• Handle telephone calls, emails, and in person visitors seeking information about substantive or procedural matters; assist Referees in answering correspondence and processing legal documents such as requests for continuances, withdrawals, subpoenas, and interpretation.
• Independently make decisions to ensure all work is completed in accordance with UC law, regulations, and the Referee’s parameters.
• Maintain timely operations and minimize workflow delays or disruptions.

If you are dedicated to maintaining timely operations and ensuring that workflow is not delayed or disrupted, the Hermitage Referee Office has the perfect job for you!

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday – Friday, with a 30-minute lunch. Work hours may be negotiable with a 30-minute lunch break.
• Telework:
  You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time, up to 3 days per week, upon successful completion of the training period. Telework requires a securely configured high-speed internet connection and a location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you may report to the Hermitage headquarters office. Telework is subject to change.
• Salary:
  In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for notices.

• One year as a Legal Assistant 1 (Commonwealth job title or equivalent Federal Government job title, as determined by the Office of Administration);
  or
• Four years of responsible clerical, investigative or enforcement work including one year of legal clerical support experience;
  or
• An equivalent combination of experience and training.

• You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on how to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Commonwealth employees who wish to use their seniority rights must apply to the internal posting for their seniority rights to be considered.

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for eligibility. Provide information to support eligibility on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• If you are claiming education in your answers to supplemental questions, attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be accepted toward meeting minimum requirements. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
• Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
• Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.

• Pennsylvania law provides…