Work with the Project Clean Slate Team

We are in search of a professional with experience in paralegal and/or legal assistant duties. This is an exciting time in the City of Detroit as we work to rebuild one of the most beautiful cities in the country.

If you want to be a part of this amazing opportunity, we welcome you to apply.

Your contribution will be significant!

This role is responsible for supporting Project Clean Slate attorneys at Project Clean Slate, the City of Detroit’s program to expunge criminal records for Detroit residents.

The work ranges from supporting the attorneys, communicating with clients, filing, and providing notary services.

Duties Include:

• Attorney support
• Communication with clients and court staff
• Retrieving criminal records (also known as ICHAT) and court Registers of Action
• Filing paperwork and fingerprint cards
• Providing notary services

• High school graduation or G.E.D.

• 1 - 3 years of experience as paralegal, legal/administrative assistant, secretary.

• Equivalent combinations of education and experience that provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities will be evaluated on an individual basis.

• Interview: 70%
• Evaluation of Training, Experience & Personal Qualifications: 30%
• Total of CBT, Interview and Evaluation T.E.P: 100%

• Veteran Points: 0 – 15 points
• Detroit Residency Credit: 15 points

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  Customer Service – must have excellent customer service skills.
• Communication - effective verbal and written communication skills at all levels of the organization; essential for the many roles you may fill.
• Passion - must be self-motivated, have initiative, and have a positive personality.
• Change Leadership - demonstrated performance as a change agent in the past; ability to deal well with changes and setbacks.
• Program Specialties - specific experience in law related fields is required, i.e. courts, law firms.
• Use of personal computers, telephone systems, fax machines and other standard office equipment
• Use of Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and other office or financial suite software packages
• Use of Excel (e.g. Formulas, Pivot Tables, Vlookup, Hlookup, other functions, charts, tables) and other financial management software packages functionality
• Adapting policies or procedures to emergency situations and establishing practices or procedures to meet new situations
• Recognizing how and when certain policies, procedures, or guidelines will be confusing to others
• Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience
• Understand written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times
• Talking to others to convey information effectively
• Managing one's own time and the time of others

• Effectively speak, write, read, and understand the English language
• Follow written and oral directions
• Read and comprehend relevant documents
• Process and integrate simple data
• Hear at a conversational level
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with both external and internal contacts
• Work as part of a team

• Notary (preferred)
• Familiarity with court processes and efiling
• Microsoft Office
• Familiarity with Smartsheet (preferred)

• The work is characterized as sedentary.
• Typically, Administrative Assistants sit comfortably to do their work, interspersed by brief periods of walking, standing, bending, carrying of papers and books, and extended periods requiring the use of computer terminals to accomplish work objectives.
• Some work may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the worksite.

• Work is performed in a comfortable office environment, which is appropriately lighted, heated, and cooled.
• The work environment contains no significant hazards.