Judicial Assistant - Justice Court Time Limited

About the role

Salt Lake County invites you to explore career opportunities where you can enrich the community with your experience and talent. The county promotes a fun, healthy work environment with great benefits, work‑life balance, and opportunities to grow. Employees are surrounded by peers motivated to make a difference, and the county strives to create a safe, beautiful place for all to live, work, and have fun.

Responsibilities

• Perform cashier functions: accept, post, process, and verify payments, credits, and other financial transactions.
• Maintain comprehensive index files, forms, reports, and/or records.
• Operate computer terminal to input and receive information related to statistics, records, reports, accounts, and services.
• Greet the public over the counter and on phones; respond to questions related to judicial services (cases, bail, warrants, payments, appointments).
• Maintain official court dockets and associated papers; post official entries reflecting pertinent facts, financial records, and judgments; maintain suspense file on pending court cases including financial matters.
• Schedule arraignments, pre‑trial, and other pre‑ and post‑judgment hearings, as well as jury and non‑jury trials; prepare and maintain court calendars; advise judge on schedules and delinquent cases.
• Track community service ordered by the judge.
• Open, review, and distribute mail for the court.
• Maintain liaison and communications with criminal‑justice‑system agencies (law enforcement, bail bondsmen, prosecutors, public defenders, probation providers, justice courts, County offices).
• Prepare, assemble, and check materials for each court session; establish and route case files; prepare and route notices per