Legal Administrative Assistant (Part Time)
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc as headings; can fold minor metadata into short
or drop it. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Must preserve all substantive information. Let's parse the posting: Job ID: 36870 - Legal Administrative Assistant (Part Time) Agency: Office of the Attorney General, Administrative Support Staff Location: Pierre, SD Salary: $19.00 Hourly Pay Grade: 02 Closing Date: October 23, 2026 This is a part-time position with the Office of the Attorney General. For more information on the Office of the Attorney General, please visit http://atg.sd.gov . Duties: This position provides administrative support for the Office of Attorney General. It provides secretarial/clerical duties using legal terminology, procedures and documents which includes: obtaining and providing information by telephone and in person in a professionally and courteously; maintaining composure, professionalism, efficiency, and accuracy during periods of peak workload, frequent interruptions, and changing priorities; greeting office guests in person in a professional, courteous, and exceptional customer-service; adapting established procedures to meet operational needs; typing, proofing, and/or finalizing confidential and sensitive letters, memo, legal documents and legal forms; other duties and responsibilities as assigned. The Ideal Candidate Will Have experience with secretarial and administrative support duties; dependable, friendly, approachable and positive attitude; ability to conduct themselves in a professional manner with the public and in an office environment; excellent telephone etiquette; independent work habits that keep them on track; ability to accomplish tasks without direct supervision. Knowledge Of office practices and procedures; excellent spoken and written English grammar. Skills To use Microsoft Office products effectively; use office technology, computerized information systems, and standard office software used to support administrative operations; type at a minimum of 60 words per minute. Ability To work independently on assignments with accuracy; pass a background investigation. Additional Requirements: To be considered, please attach your resume. This position is exempt from the Civil Service Act. Successful applicant(s) will be required to undergo a background investigation. An arrest/conviction record will not necessarily bar employment. The State of South Dakota does not sponsor work visas for new or existing employees. All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete an Employment Eligibility Verification, Form I-9. The State of South Dakota as an employer will be using E-Verify to complete employment eligibility verification upon hire. Please note this is a temporary or seasonal, non-benefited position, exempt from civil service. Must apply online: https://gen-stateofsouthdako-trn.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/shorturl.do?key=4ZC You must apply online, emailed resumes or submissions will not be accepted. South Dakota Bureau of Human Resources and Administration Telephone: 605.773.3148 Email: careers@state.sd.us http://bhr.sd.gov/workforus "An Equal Opportunity Employer" We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, application instructions, contact info maybe? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should drop the "Must apply online..." and contact info, etc. Also drop "An Equal Opportunity Employer". Also drop the "Please note this is a temporary or seasonal, non-benefited position, exempt from civil service." Might be considered substantive? It says it's a temporary or seasonal, non-benefited position. That's about benefits. Could be used for Benefits section? But they say never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It says non-benefited position, so we could include a Benefits section stating that there are no benefits? However they said never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The posting says "Please note this is a temporary or seasonal, non-benefited position, exempt from civil service." That's stating that there are no benefits. So we could include a Benefits section with that statement. However they also said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Might be okay. Pay: Salary: $19.00 Hourly. That's specific. So we can include Pay section. Schedule: It's part-time. The posting says "This is a part-time position". That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. We also have location, agency, etc. Could be in About the role? Or we could have a short paragraph with location and agency. The instruction: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we can include a short
with location, agency, maybe closing date? But they said drop minor metadata. Could include location and agency in a paragraph. We need sections: About the role (maybe a brief description), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (maybe knowledge?), Qualifications (maybe ideal candidate?), Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not create sections with filler. Let's see what content we have: - About the role: Could be a brief description: "This is a part-time position with the Office of the Attorney General providing administrative support." That's from the posting. - Responsibilities: The duties list. - Requirements: Could be "Additional Requirements" like background investigation, etc. Also maybe "Ability to pass a background investigation". Also "Must attach resume". But that's application instruction; we should drop application instructions. However "Additional Requirements: To be considered, please attach your resume." That's application instruction; we should drop. The rest: "This position is exempt from the Civil Service Act. Successful applicant(s) will be required to undergo a background investigation. An arrest/conviction record will not necessarily bar employment. The State of South Dakota does not sponsor work visas for new or existing employees. All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete an Employment Eligibility Verification, Form I-9. The State of South Dakota as an employer will be using E-Verify to complete employment eligibility verification upon hire." Those are requirements/conditions. We can include them. - Qualifications: Could be "The Ideal Candidate Will Have ..." plus "Knowledge Of office practices and procedures; excellent spoken and written English grammar." That seems like qualifications. - Skills: "Skills To use Microsoft Office products effectively; use office technology, computerized information systems, and standard office software used to support administrative operations; type at a minimum of 60 words per minute." - Benefits: "Please note this is a temporary or seasonal, non-benefited position, exempt from civil service." So we can state that there are no benefits. - Pay: "$19.00 Hourly" - Schedule: "part-time position" We also have location and agency; we could put in a short paragraph before sections. We must not include duplicated lines. Ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's craft HTML:
Office of the Attorney General, Administrative Support Staff – Pierre, SD. This is a part‑time position.
Then sections:About the role
This position provides administrative support for the Office of Attorney General, performing secretarial/clerical duties using legal terminology, procedures and documents.
But note that the About the role could be just a brief description; we already have duties in Responsibilities. Might be redundant but okay. Better: About the role: short summary. Responsibilities: list of duties. Requirements: list of additional requirements (background investigation, etc.) Qualifications: ideal candidate attributes + knowledge. Skills: list. Benefits: statement about non-benefited. Pay: statement. Schedule: statement. We must use- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For Benefits, it's not a list but a statement; we can use
. For Pay and Schedule also
. We must not include headings with empty content. Let's extract duties list: - obtaining and providing information by telephone and in person in a professionally and courteously; - maintaining composure, professionalism, efficiency, and accuracy during periods of peak workload, frequent interruptions, and changing priorities; - greeting office guests in person in a professional, courteous, and exceptional customer-service; - adapting established procedures to meet operational needs; - typing, proofing, and/or finalizing confidential and sensitive letters, memo, legal documents and legal forms; - other duties and responsibilities as assigned. We need to clean up grammar: "in a professionally and courteously" maybe should be "in a professional and courteous manner". But we must not invent or summarize away detail; we should preserve the text as is? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should keep the exact phrasing, even if awkward. However we can keep as is. Similarly for Ideal Candidate Will Have list: - experience with secretarial and administrative support duties; - dependable, friendly, approachable and positive attitude; - ability to conduct themselves in a professional manner with the public and in an office environment; - excellent telephone etiquette; - independent work habits that keep them on track; - ability to accomplish tasks without direct supervision. Knowledge Of office practices and procedures; excellent spoken and written English grammar. Skills list: - use Microsoft Office products effectively; - use office technology, computerized information systems, and standard office software used to support administrative operations; - type at a minimum of 60 words per minute. Ability list: - work independently on assignments with accuracy; - pass a background investigation. Additional Requirements list (excluding application instruction): - This position is exempt from the Civil Service Act. - Successful applicant(s) will be required to undergo a background investigation. - An arrest/conviction record will not necessarily bar employment. - The State of South Dakota does not sponsor work visas for new or existing employees. - All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete an Employment Eligibility Verification, Form I-9. - The State of South Dakota as an employer will be using E-Verify to complete employment eligibility verification upon hire. - Please note this is a temporary or seasonal, non-benefited position, exempt from civil service. We could combine the last one with Benefits. We need to decide what goes into Requirements vs Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can put "Requirements" for the additional requirements (background investigation, etc.) and "Qualifications" for ideal candidate attributes and knowledge. "Skills" for skills list. "Benefits" for non-benefited statement. "Pay" for salary. "Schedule" for part-time. We also need About the role maybe. Let's craft. We must not include any application instructions like "To be considered, please attach your resume." So we drop that line. We must not include contact info, EEO, etc. Now produce HTML. Check for any duplicated lines: we should not repeat. Let's write:
Office of the Attorney General, Administrative Support Staff – Pierre, SD. This is a part‑time position.
About the role
This position provides administrative support for the Office of Attorney General, performing secretarial/clerical duties using legal terminology, procedures and documents.
Responsibilities
- obtaining and providing information by telephone and in person in a professionally and courteously;
- maintaining composure, professionalism, efficiency, and accuracy during periods of peak workload, frequent interruptions, and changing priorities;
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