Courtroom Assistant

We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Courtroom Assistant to join our team at the City of Bremerton. As a Courtroom Assistant, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of our court proceedings.

• Assist judges in maintaining order and decorum in the courtroom.
• Keep order and maintain court and jury facilities.
• Prepare, refresh, and clean-up jury refreshments, refresh courtroom water pitchers, and counsel table supplies.
• Assist the court and counsel with impaneling the jury.
• Escort jury to and from the courtroom and provide personal services to jurors during jury deliberations.
• Transmit instructions and exhibits from court to jurors.
• Remain outside jury room until a verdict is reached.
• Work within a highly confidential setting and maintain that level of confidentiality.

• Two years' experience working with the public in customer service, office environment, legal, or in the court environment is required.
• Previous law enforcement experience is preferred.
• Six months experience working in public hospitality is required.
• Six months experience working in courts or courtroom processes is required.
• Must successfully pass a background check.

• At least 75% of the work is performed in a courtroom. A degree of physical danger is inherent while working in potentially volatile situations in a courtroom.
• A degree of physical danger is inherent while working in potentially volatile courtroom situations; will occasionally be in environments in which highly-sensitive, graphic, and/or uncomfortable language, testimony, pictures, evidence, and other materials are present; will need to escort jurors to areas in which tobacco use is permissible.
• The worker is subject to environmental conditions. Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to noise. There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: The City of Bremerton is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation/gender identity, marital status, military status, or the presence of any physical, mental, or sensory disability.

ADA Statement: The City of Bremerton does not discriminate on the basis of disability in programs and activities, which it operates pursuant to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and ADA Amendments Act. Reasonable accommodation for employees or applicants for employment will be provided.