Searcher/Testifier

City of New York • New York, NY • 2h ago

Job Description

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) provides for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods in the City of New York and maintains and enhances the transportation infrastructure crucial to the economic vitality and quality of life of City residents. DOT is an equal opportunity employer, committed to recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce in an open and inclusive environment.

The Litigation Services unit handles requests for Agency records and witness appearances in the defense of approximately 3,000 personal injury cases each year. The 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) in order 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, processing timesheets and invoices, monitoring email inboxes, handling correspondence and assigning correspondence requests in SharePoint, assisting with new hire onboarding and other tasks as needed. The selected candidate may also be assigned to FOIL searches on an as needed basis.

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.

PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOC - 10124

Qualifications

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

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

A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's 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;

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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

Salary Min: $ 61,656.00

Salary Max: $ 89,625.00

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