Legal Assistant

Legal Assistant 2 Position

Make your advanced legal clerical work make a difference with the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Wilkes Barre Referee Office! In this Legal Assistant 2 role, you will be part of a dedicated team that helps resolve complex issues and supports due process rights. Each day brings fresh challenges that let you enhance your skills while supporting fairness and efficiency. Apply with us today!

This position plays a key part in preparing, organizing, and supporting unemployment compensation appeal hearings form start to finish. Work involves detailed review, careful coordination, and consistent communication with all involved parties. As a Legal Assistant 2, you will perform the following duties:

• Hearing Preparation: Review incoming appeals case work items to determine proper routing, location and type of hearing; organize case files and exhibits; and associate dockets based on claim type and issues of law
• Scheduling Coordination: Prepare hearing notices for timely distribution; schedule, adjust, and reschedule times based on multiple variables to help Referees ensure due process, accessibility, and adherence to all other regulations and parameters
• Document Processing: Receive and distribute documents; ensure documents are sent timely, accessible, and available for all parties at all hearing types; transcribe recorded dictation of decisions from Referees; prepare, format, proofread, and verify data for a variety of legal documents
• Public Contact: Respond to phone calls, emails, and in-person visitors; provide accurate and tactful responses about substantive and procedural matters
• Record Management: Upload recorded hearings, maintain electronic and paper case files, input data into automated computer tracking systems
• Office Support: Perform other office support functions including legal research, ordering supplies, and timekeeping tasks to help keep operations running smoothly

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

Work Schedule and Additional Information:

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch. Work hours may be negotiable
• Telework: You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time, after successful completion of training. In order to telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Wilkes Barre. The ability to telework is subject to change at any time.
  
  Additional details may be provided during the interview.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:

• One year as a Legal Assistant 1 (Commonwealth job title or equivalent Federal Government job title, as determined by the Office of Administration); or
• Four years of responsible clerical, investigative or enforcement work including one year of legal clerical support experience; or
• An equivalent combination of experience and training.

Other Requirements:

• You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency Guidelines.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Commonwealth employees who wish to use their seniority rights must apply to the internal posting for their seniority rights to be considered.

How to Apply:

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be…