Estate and Guardianship Specialist - Hilo, Hawaii

About the role

Position: Estate and Guardianship Specialist, SR-19, Hilo, Hawaii. Recruitment Number: 25-155KS.

Responsibilities

Serves to assist the Court Administrator in the supervision and administration of small estates and guardianship cases assigned to the courts, and under jurisdiction of the Court Administrator; assists in documenting and assembling all data pertinent to the administration of estates of minors, incapacitated persons and decedents, and in regulating and disposing of property, following specific procedures as prescribed by law.

Requirements

• Education: Graduation from high school (or equivalent substitution).
• General Clerical Experience: Two (2) years of general clerical work requiring knowledge of office practices, filing, punctuation, grammar, spelling, word usage; ability to read and interpret written material, understand and follow oral and written instructions, make arithmetic computations, and operate standard office machines.
• Specialized Experience: Three (3) years of responsible work experience in the preparation and/or processing of legal documents used in estate, probate, and guardianship proceedings, demonstrating knowledge of estates of decedents, descent of property, probate, wills, guardianship of minor and incompetents, abandoned property and escheat; one (1) year of the three must have been at the fully competent level comparable to the Estate & Guardianship Clerk I level.

Qualifications

• Education substitutions for general clerical experience: Completion of a one‑year clerical/business curriculum substitutes for 1 year; a two‑year curriculum substitutes for 2 years; accredited college/university study substitutes on a basis of 1 academic year (30 semester hours) for 1 year up to 2 years; half‑year clerical curriculum substitutes for 6 months; one‑year of a multi‑year program substitutes for 1 year.
• Education substitutions for specialized experience: Completion of a paralegal (legal assistant) curriculum substitutes for 1 year of specialized experience; accredited law school study substitutes year‑for‑year up to 2 years; a Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school substitutes for 3 years of specialized experience (meets all requirements).
• Excess specialized experience may be substituted for general clerical experience on a year‑for‑year basis.