Sheriff Court Services Assistant III

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is seeking to fill Sheriff Court Services Assistant III vacancy to support the Indio-Eastern region only.

The incumbent will be responsible to perform specialized civil legal clerical support to Sheriff's Court Services by preparing, processing and tracking legal documents for numerous civil legal actions; performs other related duties as required.

The Sheriff's Court Services Assistant III position performs the most complex assignments and acts as a lead worker over lower-level civil legal processing activities.

The incumbent is responsible for reviewing the work of the civil legal clerical unit and for providing the more technically complex guidance without referral to higher supervision in the completion of assignments required by the unit.
Highly Competitive candidates will have clerical experience with court services, civil legal documents, small claims, or family court.

Highly Competitive candidates will have clerical experience with court services, civil legal documents, small claims, or family court.

In addition to typing skills and face-to-face customer service.

Meet the Team!

The law enforcement professionals of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office , with a staff of over 3,600 dedicated men and women, cover the expanse of over 7,300 square miles in southern California.

The Sheriff's Office is dedicated to serving the citizens of its communities with integrity, professionalism, leadership, and loyalty and believes in service above self.

EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Process legal documents and records through the Sheriff's Court Services process based on established procedure or special instructions in case files from the courts, judges or attorneys; examine documents for conformance with established rules, standards and/or legal requirements.

• Provide the public, litigants, law enforcement officials and/or other employees procedural and case information which requires distinguishing among, and consideration of, sensitive, protected and public information and requires understanding or interpretation/ explanation of legal documents (e.g., subpoenas, evictions, earnings withholding orders), legal/court procedures or specific file notations regarding case/processing and status.

• Track documents for civil procedures such as evictions, bankruptcies, small claims, summons and complaints, civil and criminal subpoenas, restraining orders, and earnings withholding orders through the civil process for case file building by obtaining signatures, and attaching required addenda, ensuring validity and adherence to statutory time limits; answer questions and explain civil code procedures to litigants and their attorneys.

• Based on court judgments: process accounts receivable, stock certificates and real properties; prepare and/or process public notices of sale, bids for sales, notices of attachments, notices of levy, release of levy, notices of modification and termin...