PARALEGAL

Opening Date: 08/07/2026 • Closing Date: 08/21/2026 • Location: Rock Island • Full-time, salaried union position (AFSCME RC062).

About the role

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is seeking an organized, professional, and results-oriented individual to serve as a Paralegal. DCFS offers a competitive compensation plan, excellent benefits, and a pension program. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serves as Paralegal and attends court hearings as directed.
• Reviews all files on call sheet to ensure files have been received.
• Performs special projects and prepares statistical or other reports.
• Receives and processes all subpoenas received by staff.
• Obtains legal materials upon request of staff attorneys, either from law libraries or from other Department offices.
• Under the direction of staff attorneys, files court documents and serves legal papers.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Requirements

• Knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of college with coursework in legal, pre-legal, English, statistics, or directly related fields.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years of experience in a law office or legal area of a public or business organization applying working knowledge of precedent cases, legal writing style, format, and vocabulary.
• Two years of experience in technical report writing, vocabulary, and word usage in a legal setting.
• Two years of experience in a public or business organization utilizing the ability to write clearly and concisely.
• Two years of experience analyzing and organizing facts, evidence, and precedents, and drafting written material for legal staff in a clear and logical format.
• Two years of experience organizing and presenting statistical data.

Pay

Anticipated starting salary: $5,127/month (Step 1b). Full range: $5,127 – $7,135/month.