Processing Technician Legal Affairs Unit #260708-6435CL-001

About the role

The Legal Affairs Unit manages the agency's legal needs, which include responding to records requests, managing hearings, and overseeing agency regulations, legislative proposals, ethics matters, contracts, and litigation.

Responsibilities

• Examines incoming materials for accuracy, completeness and conformance to state statutes and regulations;
• Makes corrections and/or additions;
• Devises follow up procedures to efficiently and effectively carry out activities;
• Initiates and maintains communications with a wide variety of resources to verify information and complete transactions including other state employees, offices and outside officials such as attorneys, judicial and social welfare officials or representatives;
• Interprets and applies state statutes and regulations relating to the particular processing service;
• Makes decisions as to case status, transaction permissibility or admissibility;
• Responds to internal and external inquiries for information and assistance;
• Sets up and maintains office procedures, filing and indexing systems and forms for office use and to meet recurring needs;
• Maintains calendars of due dates and initiates recurring work or special clerical projects accordingly;
• Maintains records and logs;
• Prepares status or statistical reports related to processing function;
• Assists in maintaining general files in support of processing function;
• Initiates correspondence in carrying out duties;
• Typing correspondence, forms, file documentation, etc. in support of processing function;
• May process fees and maintain financial records;
• May lead lower level clerical employees assisting in carrying out processing responsibilities;
• Performs related duties as required.

Requirements

• Three (3) years of clerical work experience;
• One (1) year of the General Experience must have involved a full range of clerical duties.

Qualifications

• College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years.

Skills

• Knowledge of office systems and procedures;
• Interpersonal skills;
• Oral and written communication skills;
• Ability to compose effective correspondence and forms;
• Read, comprehend and apply laws, regulations, and procedural guidelines;
• Organize and coordinate workflow;
• Articulate ideas and information effectively;
• Perform research assignments;
• Devise and maintain record keeping and filing systems;
• Examine documents for accuracy and completeness;
• Operate office equipment including computers, tablets, and other electronic equipment;
• Operate office suite software.

Benefits

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Pay

Salary calculations are not necessarily comparable from one of the three branches of state government (i.e., Executive, Legislative, Judicial) to the other.

Schedule

This position is full-time, first shift in Middletown, CT with the potential for telework, 40 hours per week, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, scheduled Monday - Friday.