Jury Clerk

**Duties**:
**REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES**
Jury clerks perform administrative and customer service work to coordinate and prepare qualified jurors for jury selection in accordance with approved internal controls, procedures, and rules. Employees in these positions ensure the efficient and fair operations related to the selection, qualification, summoning, orientation, management, and payment of jurors. Representative duties will include but are not limited to:

- Prepare and mail juror questionnaires and other information.
- Process juror questionnaires and other documents.
- Process and respond to deferral and excuse requests.
- Schedule and prepare for jury selections.
- Conduct juror check-in and provide juror orientation.
- Provide support to and assist jurors during jury service.
- Prepare paperwork after jury selections, including juror payments and reimbursements.
- Operate the Court's Juror Management System (JMS) and eJuror (component of JMS).
- Maintain and update the interactive voice response system (AJIS).
- Maintain accurate inventory of jury supplies.
- Communicate verbally and in writing with judges, court personnel, U.S. Attorney's Office, jurors, and other groups to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of all jury-related proceedings.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION OR CLEARANCE

**SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS**:
DRUG TESTING

**Qualifications**:

- This position will involve significant public contact and personal interaction, experience managing a heavy call volume, and the ability to speak publicly in front of a large group.
- Qualifications include:
- Two years of previous and extensive customer service experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and use judgment to resolve issues based on knowledge and experience.
- Ability to interact effectively and appropriately with the public, internal customers, and co-workers.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to resolve difficulties while complying with regulations, rules, and procedures regarding jury administration.
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to unanticipated needs and problems, and to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
- Ability to consistently demonstrate sound ethics and judgment.
- Skill and precision in performing data entry and preparing documents using Microsoft Office.
- Payment processing experience is beneficial.
- Ability to work extended hours and travel within the district as needed.
- High school graduate (or equivalent) and must have a minimum of two years of general experience and one year of specialized experience.

**TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Generalized experience** is progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that indicates the possession of or the ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills necessary to do the job. Education above the high school level may be substituted for general experience.

**Education**:
**EDUCATION**:
High school graduate (or equivalent).

**Additional information**:
This job is being filled by an alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive civil service.
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**How You Will Be Evaluated**:
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

You will be evaluated based upon the question responses you provide during a structured interview. In responding to structured interview questions you should be sure to cite specific examples of experience, explain exactly what you did, and the outcome.
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