Job Details
Job Location: Circuit Courts, Jefferson City, Missouri
Why you'll love this position:
A position with the Missouri Judiciary provides you the opportunity to work with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and to gain a valuable and rewarding career. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and to keep operations running smoothly. Our positions offer competitive benefit programs, growth opportunities and the ability to work with people in your community.
We are recruiting to fill a Senior Court Clerk position to perform highly responsible advanced work using an electronic filing system in a court within the Missouri State Court System. Work involves responsibility for court case processing which may require the application of independent judgment and the application of statutes, policies and regulations, with minimal supervision. Work requires frequent interaction with the public providing exceptional customer service. Work may also involve financial record keeping within an automated case management system; providing direct support for a circuit judge or associate circuit judge providing a full range of responsibilities within the division's jurisdiction; or supervision of other staff.
General Duties:
Perform technical clerical work in the Courtroom Services Department as a Substitute Clerk which will include
the following: provide clerical support for a Judge or Commissioner in a division; serve in the courtroom; assist in preparing
judge's docket; note continuances; administer oath to witnesses and jurors; make entries in the court's
automated case management system (JIS) to reflect case progress, which may include scanning
documents and attaching to the appropriate docket code; contact attorneys and other court personnel to
resolve discrepancies discovered in reviewing records; prepare a variety of orders, documents and
correspondence for judge; prepare various statistical reports; operate electronic sound recording
machine; answer inquiries and furnish information to attorneys, court personnel and the general public
by telephone and in person; and perform other duties as assigned.