Supervisory Docketing Technician (Office Automation)

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys seeks a skilled staff member at the GS-09 level in Chicago to provide leadership and guidance to junior personnel.

The role includes training and supervising workflow, using advanced automation to extract legal data, and ensuring accurate docketing and case management aligned with court procedures. Applicants must meet specialized experience criteria and demonstrate the ability to train new employees on the system, review

Qualifications

• Leadership and guidance to subordinate staff.
• Training and distributing and monitoring work in progress.
• Advanced automation techniques to extract legal data from automated databases.
• Knowledge of legal terminology, litigation processes and court proceedings to docket and identify errors.

Responsibilities

• Assist with training new employees on the system.
• Review reports and identify recurring errors in docketing and case management.
• Provide procedural recommendations to improve docketing and case management.

Skills

Leadership

Typing 40 wpm

Training staff

Docketing and case management

Job description

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/. As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

To be eligible at the GS-09 level, you must have one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-08 level. Specialized experience includes demonstrating the ability to provide leadership and guidance to subordinate staff; providing training and distributing and monitoring work in progress. Additionally, experience is defined as using advanced automation techniques to extract legal data from automated databases; utilizes legal support processes and court proceedings to review reports and identify recurring errors; conducts periodic case certification reviews; utilizing knowledge of legal terminology, litigation processes and court proceedings to properly docket and identify errors in either input of documents or in the computer record; recommending revision of office procedures to improve the docketing and case management function; assisting with training new employees on the system.

To be qualified, you must type at least 40 words per minute based a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors. (A typing test may later be required.)