Support Docketing Clerk - Criminal Traffic Department

Job Location: Missouri Circuit Courts

Why You’ll Love This Position

A position with the Missouri Judiciary provides the opportunity to work with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and to gain a valuable and rewarding career. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and to keep operations running smoothly. Our positions offer competitive benefit programs, growth opportunities, and the ability to work with people in your community.

General Duties

• Perform technical clerical work in the Criminal/Traffic Department, supporting the Docketing Clerk by preparing, supporting, and acting as a back‑up for duties associated with various criminal/traffic dockets.
• Adapt to changing and evolving needs, circumstances, and tasks; learn and enter various memos and documents on all criminal and traffic case types.
• Review cases to determine proper issuance of warrants and review documents and memos for completeness and accuracy.
• Process cases by making entries and inquiries in the case management system (SMC); utilize a personal computer to enter and dispose of various criminal/traffic case types.
• Accompany a judge into the courtroom on docket days or attend dockets via video/telephone conferencing as needed.
• Accept and process eFilings from the import queues; answer inquiries and furnish information to attorneys, court personnel, and the public in person and via telephone.
• Perform case processing in receiving and initiating case files; review judgments, prepare warrants, summonses, garnishments, executions, bond settings, and docket control.
• Review legal documents for necessary information required for filing; determine processing required and take action in accordance with court rules, requiring detailed knowledge of applicable terminology, rules, and procedures.
• Perform accounting duties in receiving and disbursing monies, reconcile financial accounts, and prepare daily and monthly financial reports.
• Prepare a variety of documents related to court operations, including court orders, calendars, notices of hearings, court appearances, or reports; coordinate the flow of documents necessary for court assignments; and properly queue electronically filed proceedings for processing.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree in a related field or at least 60 semester hours from an institution of higher learning and one year of varied administrative experience performing a wide range of technical office duties.
• Additional experience above the minimum stated may be substituted on a year‑for‑year basis for the required education.

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of court procedures and policies, legal documents, laws, and legal factors pertaining to the court.
• Basic knowledge of organization operations, functions, and scope of authority of the court.
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively while handling a high‑volume workload in an environment subject to frequently changing priorities and high stress.
• Ability to exercise good judgment and make independent decisions in accordance with general policy and objectives.
• Ability to maintain a variety of complex records and prepare reports from an automated system.

Benefits

• Defined pension plan.
• Generous amounts of leave and holiday time.
• Eligibility for health insurance coverage.
• Total compensation includes more than the dollars received in the paycheck.