Administrative Assistant - YAD Springfield

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The committee for public counsel services (cpcs), the public defender agency for massachusetts, is seeking to fill an administrative assistant position for the youth advocacy division (yad) springfield office. The administrative assistant position is a full-time, benefits-eligible position that supports a busy public defender trial office.

We fight for equal justice and human dignity by supporting our clients in achieving their legal and life goals. We zealously advocate for the rights of individuals and promote just public policy to protect the rights of all.

Our values

Courage
• accountability
• respect
• excellence

Diversity and inclusion mission statement

Cpcs is committed to protecting the fundamental constitutional and human rights of our assigned clients through zealous advocacy, community-oriented defense, and the fullness of excellent legal representation. We are dedicated to building and maintaining strong professional relationships, while striving to accept, listen to and respect the diverse circumstances of each client, as we dedicate ourselves to meeting their individual needs. It is our cpcs mission to achieve these goals, and in furtherance thereof, we embrace and endorse diversity, equity and inclusion as our core values as we maintain a steadfast commitment to: (1) ensure that cpcs management and staff members represent a broad range of human differences and experience;

(2) provide a work climate that is respectful and supports success; and (3) promote the dignity and well-being of all staff members. Cpcs leadership is responsible for ensuring equity, diversity, and inclusion. The ability to achieve these goals with any level of certainty is ultimately the responsibility of each member of the cpcs community.

Agency overview

Cpcs is the state agency in massachusetts responsible for providing an attorney when the state or federal constitution or a state statute requires the appointment of an attorney for a person who cannot afford to retain one. The agency provides representation in criminal, delinquency, youthful offender, family regulation, guardianship, mental health, sexually dangerous person, and sex offender registry cases, as well as in appeals and post-conviction and post-judgment proceedings related to those matters.

The clients we represent are diverse across every context imaginable and bring many unique cultural dimensions to the matters we address. This reality creates a critical need for cpcs staff to be culturally competent and able to work well with people of different races, ethnicities, genders and/or sexual orientation identities, abilities, and limited english proficiency, among other protected characteristics.

Division overview

The youth advocacy division (yad), the juvenile defender division of cpcs, is committed to ensuring that every indigent child in massachusetts has access to zealous legal representation in delinquency, gcl revocation, juvenile murder, juvenile appeals, and youthful offender cases from a diverse and ever improving community of juvenile defenders consisting of both private assigned counsel and staff public defenders. Yad provides leadership, training, support, and oversight to the indigent juvenile defense bar in massachusetts.

As youth in massachusetts have a right to jury trials, the attorney in charge oversees a trial office which integrates the work of attorneys, a social service advocate, and administrative assistants to fully address the legal and developmental needs of our clients.

Office overview

Springfield is a city in massachusetts and the seat of hampden county. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the connecticut river near its confluence with three rivers: the western westfield river, the eastern chicopee river, and the eastern mill river. As 2020, the city's population was 155,929, making it the third-largest city in…