Law Office Assistant 1

Law; Dillingham (AK); On-site; USD 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Law, Division of Criminal is recruiting for a Law Office Assistant 1 in Dillingham. This role provides essential legal and administrative support to prosecutors, handling document preparation, data entry, and file organization while coordinating with courts and outside agencies to meet deadlines.

Work hours are typically 8:00 AM–4:30 PM with flexibility around core business hours. This is a growth-friendly, entry-level opportunity in a dynamic legal team serving the Alaska

Qualifications

• One year of experience providing customer service or handling administrative tasks.
• Ability to prepare correspondence or reports, file, enter data, and maintain logs.
• Proficiency with word processing and standard business software.
• Experience communicating with outside agencies or individuals in writing and verbally.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal and administrative support to prosecutors in the Dillingham District Attorney’s Office.
• Type and format legal documents, perform data entry, and organize electronic files.
• Communicate with outside agencies and individuals to accomplish tasks.
• Support hearings and trials preparation and coordinate with courts.

Skills

Oral & written communication

Computer skills

Interpersonal skills

Information management

Problem solving

Education

Associate’s degree in legal support

Vocational‑technical certification in legal support

Tools

Word processing software

Electronic management information systems

Job description

Job Description

Come join the State of Alaska!

The Department of Law, Division of Criminal is recruiting for a Law Office Assistant 1

in

Dillingham

!

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our

residency definition

to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing:

The Law Office Assistant 1 position is responsible for providing legal and administrative support to prosecutors within the Dillingham District Attorney’s Office. You will be performing a wide variety of tasks to include but not limited to typing and formatting legal documents, performing data entry, organizing documents in electronic files, and communicating with outside agencies and individuals verbally and in writing to accomplish tasks.

Mission and Values/Culture:

Our mission is to seek justice, promote public safety and public respect for government through prompt, effective, and compassionate prosecution of cases in a matter that advocates for the interests of the victims, respects the law enforcement agencies, responsibly stewards public resources, and holds offenders accountable while at the same time protecting the constitutional and legal rights of the accused.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

As a Law Office Assistant you have an exciting position. Step into the daily opportunity of assisting people and making a meaningful contribution to the community. You’ll learn the inner workings of the legal system, prepare for hearings and trials, work closely with the courts, and provide essential support to everyone involved as you tackle various deadlines and legal puzzles. Our most successful team members are reliable, curious, and excited to tackle new challenges with their attorneys by their side.

This is a flexibly staffed position with built-in opportunities for growth. Perfect for someone eager to learn, develop new skills, and advance in their career.

You can expect a 37.5 hour work week; 12 paid holidays; personal leave accrual starting at 6 hours per pay period (about 21 days annually) and increasing with years of service. The general office hours are 8:00AM to 4:30PM but there is flexibility in establishing your regular hours around core business hours.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

When you join this team you can develop leadership skills, enjoy daily team collaboration, and build strong office and computer skills while working across multiple areas of law.

The Dillingham District Attorney's Office is located at 2570 Airport Spur Road. The office environment is friendly, dynamic and engaging.

Dillingham offers world-class fishing, outdoor recreation, and breath‑taking scenery while working and living in a culturally diverse community that is close knit.

Who We Are Looking For:

• Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
• Manages and Organizes Information: Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods.
• Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

To view the general description and example of duties for the position please go to the following link:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs

Minimum Qualifications

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications.

Please ensure your application

(through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Minimum Qualifications:

Law Office Assistant 1

One year of experience that involves some combination of providing significant customer service contact; eliciting or exchanging information as related to requirements or procedures necessary to secure services, authorizations, or goods on behalf of the client; and/or performing standard administrative tasks such as preparing correspondence or reports, filing, entering data, receiving payments, and/or maintaining logs and includes the regular, proficient use of electronic management information systems and word processing and other standard business software applications.

Substitutions:

• Any combination of post-secondary education from an accredited college or university (2.67 semester hours or 4 quarter hours equal one month) in any area of study and/or applicable experience, as defined above, may substitute for the required experience.
• An associate’s degree or specific vocational‑technical certification in a legal support career area (e.g., paralegal, legal assistant, legal secretary, or criminal justice) may substitute for the required experience.
• Vocational‑technical certification in a generalized business support career area (e.g., administrative office technology, business and marketing management, entrepreneurship, or office assistance) may substitute for up to 6 months of the required experience.

Special Note (All Levels):

Most positions require incumbents to be able to obtain a Notary Public upon hire, and to be able to pass a criminal background check to meet security requirements for using criminal record networks such as APSIN and National Crim Enforcement Information Center/National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NCIC/NLETS). If this requirement is present, it will be stated in the vacancy announcement.

Some positions are required to work regular overtime during the standard workweek, on weekends, and/or holidays to provide support to the assigned duty attorney. If this requirement is present, it will be stated in the vacancy announcement.

Additional Required Information

**PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY**

Members of the Criminal Division are held to high standards of professionalism even in our personal lives. The incumbent must maintain the strictest of confidences with information they will be exposed to and have access to. Applicants should be aware that due to the nature of the work being performed in this office, the incumbent must have the ability to tolerate some exposure to graphic pictur