SearcherTestifier (Per Diem)

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION CANDIDATE MUST BE SERVING PERMANENTLY IN THE TITLE OF PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE OR BE REACHABLE ON THE PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE CIVIL SERVICE LIST.

The Litigation Services unit handles requests for Agency records and witness appearances in the defense of approximately 3000 personal injury cases each year. The FOIL unit handles public information requests made through the Citys Open Records electronic portal. Both units search for responsive records to requests from the public. The successful candidate will primarily be assigned to the Litigation Services unit but may be assigned to the FOIL unit in the future if the needs of the unit require re-allocation of staff.

The Litigation Services FOIL and Records Management unit seeks a highly organized and self-motivated candidate with experience working with electronically filed records and researching identifying collecting and producing digital records. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced paperless office and will be required to follow our Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to produce reliable consistent and accurate records that will be defensible under oath at depositions and trials. The successful candidate is expected to achieve proficiency after appropriate training in performing complete electronic records searches of several databases and web applications. The successful candidate should also possess superior verbal communication skills. The successful candidate may be required to routinely travel to offices and courthouses in all 5 boroughs approximately 3 times each week to testify under oath at Examinations Before Trial and at Trials; and administrative tasks which may include but are not limited to scheduling witnesses assigning searches in SharePoint and/or Law Manager assisting Deputy Counsel Senior Counsel and Chief of Staff with projects as assigned monitoring email inboxes handling correspondence and assigning correspondence requests in SharePoint assisting with new hire onboarding and other tasks as needed.

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and three years of satisfactory full-time progressively responsible clerical/administrative experience one year of which must have been in an administrative capacity or supervising staff performing clerical/administrative work of more than moderate difficulty; or
2. An associate degree or 60 semester credits from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time progressively responsible clerical/administrative experience including one year of the administrative supervisory experience described in 1 above; or
3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a States department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and five years of satisfactory full-time progressively responsible clerical/administrative experience including one year of the administrative supervisory experience as described in 1 above;
4. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 2 or 3 above. However all candidates must possess the one year of administrative or supervisory experience as described in 1 above. Education above the high school level may be substituted for the general clerical/administrative experience (but not for the one year of administrative or supervisory experience described in 1 above) at a rate of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for 6 months of experience up to a maximum of 3½ years.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time