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**An Equal Opportunity Employer**

**Position Summary**:

- This position is responsible for providing clerical support to the Courts.

**SCHEDULE**
Days: Monday - Friday
Work Hours: 8am - 5pm
Hours Per Shift: 8
Shifts Per Pay Period: 10
Position FTE: 1.0
**_Applications are being accepted from current Walworth County employees and members of the public._**

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- include the following. Other duties may be assigned. _This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned._

Interact with the public, in person and over the telephone and respond to public inquiries in a tactful and courteous manner while providing quality customer service. Assist colleagues whenever necessary.
- Access, enter, update and retrieve data ensuring accuracy and validity of information on specialized Circuit Court Automation Project (CCAP).
- Maintain electronic and paper records ensuring information is organized and easily accessible. Handle confidential documents ensuring they remain secure.
- Manage schedules and deadlines.
- Ensure operations adhere to policies and regulations.
- Answer phones and route calls, while providing information to the public regarding Clerk of Courts and general topics.
- Enter future court dates from 8:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. calls.
- Receipt for fines, costs, and fees paid.
- Provide work excuses to excused jurors.
- Open, record, and process all criminal e-files and mail.
- Prepare daily calendars, pull and distribute accordingly.
- Prepare criminal documents.
- Prepare cash, surety, or property bonds for defendants in criminal/traffic cases.
- Prepare and schedule bail forfeiture hearings.
- Backup the Deputy Criminal Clerk.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
- Demonstrate a commitment to county safety and risk management efforts.

**Qualifications**:

- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions._

**Education and/or Experience**
- High school diploma or equivalent competencies, and two to three years of relevant prior experience. Proven experience in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Proven experience in computing rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Previous experience working with legal terminology.

**Interactions & Communication**
- Responds to requests and initiates contacts to exchange basic or general information with others.

**Decision Making**
- This position has authority to make decisions that are within general procedures and protocols; supervision is available as required or requested. These decisions directly impact performance in the job and/or work unit within the department and information is provided to others for their decision making.

**Thinking & Problem Solving**
- In relation to established procedures, protocols and policies of the County, challenges of this position tend to be routine and primarily related to procedure and process issues.

**Tools and Equipment Used**
- Typewriter Copy Machine
- Telephone FAX Machine
- Calculator Personal Computer/Printer

**WORK ENVIRONMENT** **The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

**PHYSICAL DEMANDS** **The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and sit. The employee is occasionally required to walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
**NEPOTISM OR CONFLICT OF INTEREST COMPLIANCE** A person may not be offered or hold this position if the employment would result in that person being a supervisor or subordinate to an immediate family member. "Immediate family" includes the employee's spouse, brother, sister, parents, children, stepchildren, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-