Digital Court Reporter

Responsibilities

• Mainters the daily court reporting activities for various court locations.
• Serves as first level liaison between the judiciary and contracted court reporting firms.
• Maintains logs and records of internal backup of audio files.
• Audits logs and records involving audio files provided through unit’s request process.
• Reviews requested audio files and processes, confirms, extracts, and provides requested audio files timely.
• Maintains and audits payments received for requested audio files.
• Maintains and reports data of court reporting related issues such as contracted vendor compliance, audits of invoicing, payment audits, transcript requests, court reporting training, audio file requests, or other related matters of the Unit.
• Maintains recording equipment and reports malfunctioning equipment to appropriate personnel and Court Information Technology Services (CITeS).
• Maintains accurate court reporting vendor assignment log.
• Works with court operations division staff during judicial rotations, prepares training schedules for review by managers and posts updates on the webpage.
• Performs minor maintenance and troubleshooting tasks on equipment and corrects minor malfunctions, as needed.
• Maintains quality of recordings and transcripts.
• Assists with monitoring court reporting contractor compliance matters.
• Attends meetings, trainings, and meets with court personnel as needed to ensure functioning of court reporting matters.
• Compiles and reports court reporting monthly statistical data for review by the Unit supervisor.
• Gathers and maintains daily information/data to support periodic and special reports for the Court Reporting Services Unit.
• Provides audio recordings as requested and/or approved by Administrative Office of the Court (AOC) division directors, legal department, Public Information Officer, Trial Court Administrator’s Office, or Administrative Judges.
• Operates digital court recording equipment and provides official records of court proceedings as needed.
• Maintains accurate notes regarding retention and works with Unit staff to purge eligible records as needed.
• Reports to courthouses as needed to assist with court reporting related issues or tasks.
• Assists with training court personnel and newly contracted digital court reporting monitors as needed.
• Screens telephone calls and directs callers/visitors to proper personnel or takes messages.
• Performs related work as required.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED and one year of college or vocational school education in office skills, computer operation or a closely related field.
• Two (2) years of related work experience.