Court Services Manager; Communications, IT, Court Operations - Honolulu - Honolulu

Position Specific Description

Recruitment Number 26-140LK, Court Services Manager (Communications, IT, Court Operations), EM-05, Honolulu, Oahu.

This position administers the First Circuit's information technology, statistics and communications functions; develops and leads innovative and/or special projects and initiatives related to information technology and statistics; researches and formulates innovative strategies and processes to enhance the First Circuit's information technology, data analysis and communications programs; collaborates with external agencies, community entities, Judiciary leadership, Court Administration, stakeholders, and Courts in development of standards in areas including, but not limited to, court technology, and media/public outreach and public accessibility.

This position further assists the Chief Court Administrator and/or designee with administrative housekeeping functions, i.e., preparing budget requests, researching matters, preparing reports and correspondence, and investigating and resolving problems, and performs other related duties as assigned.

Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a Bachelor’s degree, or excess work experience as described under Specialized Experience below, or any other responsible administrative, professional or analytical work experience which provided knowledge and abilities comparable to those acquired in four (4) years of successful study while completing a college or university curriculum leading to a bachelor’s degree may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.

To be acceptable, the experience must have been of such scope, level and quality as to assure the possession of comparable knowledge and abilities.

The education or experience background must also demonstrate the ability to write clear and comprehensive reports and other documents; read and interpret complex written material; and solve complex problems logically and systematically.

Three (3) years of professional, administrative, technical work experience in one or a combination of the following areas. Clerical work experience is non-qualifying:

• In a court or legal setting, responsibility for supervising or overseeing the operational activities of a unit or section whose primary function is the preparation and/or processing of legal documents. Such experience must have included: (1) planning and directing the work of others; (2) assigning and reviewing their work; (3) advising them on difficult problem areas; (4) timing and scheduling of work;
  
  and (5) training and developing new employees; and (6) disciplining them when necessary. (Examples of legal setting are:
  Office of the Prosecutor, Public Defender, Department of the Attorney General, legal department in a financial institution or trust company, private attorney’s office.)
• Independently performing professional work involving written analysis, evaluation, and recommendations for problem resolution in a court or legal setting, or those social or administrative programs of the courts.

One (1) year of experience in one of the following areas:

• Staff Specialist
  
  Experience:
  
  Professional level work regularly encompassing difficult and complex situations and problems in a given specialty with responsibility for furnishing advisory services to management in the overall aspects of program development and evaluation; or performing extensive and intensive professional work in a given area of specialization, working on the most complex and difficult assignments in the areas of program development and evaluation, development of new and revised procedures, review of working situations to be sure divisions are following guidelines of sound management practices, development of legislative proposals or analysis of the impact of proposed legislation, and engaging in research aimed towards improving the management system.
• Supervisory
  
  Experience:
  
  Experience which included: (1) planning and directing the work of others; (2) assigning and reviewing their work; (3) advising them on…