Overview
DESCRIPTION
Benefiting Your Future!
• Competitive pay of DOE
• Fully paid employee Medical, Dental, Vision premium
• $50,000 Basic Life Insurance, Long Term Disability
• Voluntary Flexible Spending Account, Life Insurance, Short Term Disability
• 401(k), and 5% Employer Contribution
• Paid Leave: Annual, Sick, 13 Paid Holiday Observances, Jury Duty, Bereavement, Closure
Summary
The Court Clerk shall be responsible for the efficient running of the court and the creation and maintenance of its record
keeping and accounting systems.
Your Responsibilities
• Managing the court’s information, accounting, and bookkeeping systems.
• Entering and updating the procedural and substantive case histories on all cases.
• Maintaining, cataloguing, and organizing all existing and closed civil and criminal cases.
• Handling the receipt of all fine payments including the collection, receipt, posting, and transfer of these funds as
needed.
• Maintaining financial records and posting to each respective file.
• Creating and maintaining summary financial and statistical data.
• Able to comply with the reporting and bookkeeping principles established by the Tribe’s Finance Department.
• Responsible for opening cases, filing documents in each file, and closing these files when ordered by the Court.
• Informing community members, litigants, attorneys and other interested parties of our procedures and the manner in
which access to our court may be obtained while staying within ethical boundaries.
• Performing the work of the In-Court Clerk when necessary.
• Creating and maintaining statistical data which reflects the number, kinds of cases, number of court hearings,
approximate amount of time spent, and length of time each case was open.
• Copying, mailing, and distributing the orders of the Court to those individuals or parties required to receive them.
• Maintain strict confidentiality requirements of all court cases.
• Maintaining an updated warrants list and communicating with the police whenever changes to this list are made.
Qualifications You’ll Bring
• Some community college or other experience or training, including legal or paralegal training or experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge and familiarity with computer software programs including Microsoft Office and Justware
program a plus.
• Demonstrated administrative and professional organizational skills and willingness and ability to meet performance
criteria on a daily basis.
• Experience in creating and maintaining legal forms.
• Understanding of legal systems, client confidentiality, and procedural due process.
What to Expect
• Demonstrated knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping principles.
• Ability and willingness to respect the rights and confidentiality of all individuals who come in contact with the Court.
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• Implementing and maintaining the civil traffic infraction process.
• Creating and publishing an accurate daily and weekly docket of cases.
• Creating and sending out notices of hearings scheduled.
Requirements
• State and Tribal Background check
• Valid WA State Driver’s License
• Pre-Employment drug testing
• Native American Preference
• Random Drug Testing
• Suquamish Tribe Vaccine Requirements
