Jury Clerk

Are you looking for a career that combines customer service, organization, and community impact? We are seeking a dependable Jury Clerk to help maintain the orderly and efficient coordination of jury services for the courts. This position provides qualified prospective jurors for Superior, Justice, and Tucson City Courts petit jury panels and state and county grand juries.

Pay

Hiring hourly range: $19.74–$26.64. The actual salary offer will consider factors including skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity. The position is in pay grade 4, which may constitute a promotional opportunity for current county staff.

Qualifications

A high school diploma or GED equivalent certificate and at least one year of clerical experience in a professional office environment performing tasks such as working with computers in data entry and/or word processing, reception, message and/or mail delivery, filing, and using various office equipment. An equivalent combination of experience, training, and/or education approved by Human Resources may also qualify.

Responsibilities

• Process incoming mail, email, faxes, phone calls, and resulting tasks including data entry and updating juror information into the jury database; make determinations on juror qualifications and requests to be postponed or excused from jury service pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes and Pima County jury office policy and procedures.
• Process postponement and excusal requests, sort and file processed paperwork, and perform quality checks on data processing.
• Perform customer service duties by answering phones, replying to emails, greeting jurors in person, responding to questions and concerns, inputting and processing juror data, preparing correspondence, validating juror parking, and preparing and signing attendance certificates.
• Prepare daily jury trial calendars by entering jury trial data into the jury database, coordinate with judicial divisions, courtroom clerks, and court staff regarding trial status, juror panel sizes, and needs; assess the number of jurors needed each day, update the court website and juror recording line, and prepare paperwork and juror lists.
• Input all jury-related statistical data regarding jurors and jury trials in the jury database, including dates and times, individual juror dispositions; track trial progress each day, and input trial outcome data.
• Prepare address lists of impaneled jurors, communicate with judicial divisions to get daily juror attendance to pay jurors, and prepare daily and quarterly civil billing sheets.
• Staff the jury assembly room and manage all jury assembly room activities including checking jurors into attendance, scanning juror barcodes, distributing juror biographical forms, updating jurors’ biographical and pay information in the jury database, drawing jury panels, and preparing paperwork for each case.
• Provide orientation to jurors, answer questions, manage individual juror-related issues/concerns, validate parking, and track juror needs and status.
• Prepare daily juror notice postcards and other reports using jury database software.
• Respond to requests from jurors regarding juror pay and interact with Court Finance departments to resolve issues; operate juror payroll functions in the jury database software.
• Assist with court-ordered juror questionnaires by managing jurors assigned to those cases, helping with mailings, and communicating with questionnaire jurors.
• Assist with grand juror communications and attendance for the approximately 10 grand juries empaneled annually.

Benefits

• Retirement plan (mandatory participation with pre-tax pay deduction)
• Vacation, holidays, and sick leave (56 hours of sick time accrued annually may be rolled over to vacation time upon yearly anniversary)
• 100% paid parental leave
• Employer-paid short-term disability
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health and wellness discount program
• Mental and behavioral health benefits
• Paid training with advancement opportunities
• Medical, dental, and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Eligibility for student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program