Job Announcement: Legal Assistant Friday, May 3, 2024
Legal Assistant
Job ID 3027760
Status Full-time/Benefitted
Starting Salary $3508-4400/month
Application Deadline: 11:59pm, May 7, 2024
Location: remote within North Dakota
Child Support - Statewide - Legal Assistant
As a Legal Assistant, you are responsible for gathering information to assist the attorneys with legal action, preparing legal documents and correspondence, coordinating service of legal documents, electronically filing legal documents with the appropriate clerk of court in accordance with the Rules of Court, maintaining legal document templates, accepting and returning phone calls and answering other inquiries, navigating and entering data and narratives into the automated child support system (FACSES), and maintaining a calendar to monitor progress of cases and maintain calendar for hearings.
To be considered for this position you are required to have completion of two years of college in pre-law or legal assistance and two years of legal research analysis work experience. Additional work experience as specified may substitute for the education requirement on a year for year basis.
Location: ND DHHS utilizes a blended workplace model. This position may work remotely from anywhere within North Dakota, working during regular business hours, with the ability to travel for meetings.
About HHS: ND HHS strives to make North Dakota the healthiest state in the nation by reinforcing the foundations of well-being: physical, economic, and behavioral. Those services are to be delivered as close to home as possible with a focus on dignity and respect. The keys to delivery of those services are the 2800 committed, compassionate ND HHS team members and more than $6 billion in funding from nearly 200 different federal, state, and special sources.
Application Procedures
Applicants must complete the online application on or before May 7, 2024, 11:59 PM, at https://www.omb.nd.gov/team-nd-careers/career-openings.
Questions: Contact Lori Jacobson at lkjacobson@nd.gov or at 701.298.4920
Equal Employment Opportunity
The State of North Dakota and this hiring agency do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, genetics, religion, age or disability in employment or the provisions of services and complies with the provisions of the North Dakota Human Rights Act.
As an employer, the State of North Dakota prohibits smoking in all places of state employment in accordance with N.D.C.C. § 23-12-10.