Requisition No: 838805 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: Paralegal - OPS-43430001

 Pay Plan: Temp

Position Number: 43430001 

Salary:  $25.00 per hour 

Posting Closing Date: 02/06/2025 

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*****OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*****

DIVISION: OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL

BUREAU: PROSECUTION & ENFORCEMENT

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

 

SPECIAL NOTES:

High School Diploma or equivalent is required.

 

Additional requirements:

Must have Microsoft Office experience.

 

Preference:

Paralegal or legal assistant experience.

 

This position pays an hourly rate of $25.00 per hour. This is a 30 hour per week position. The duration of the position is indefinite but is expected to last six (6) months or more.

 

Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle. 

 

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process.

 

Background check and fingerprinting is required.

 

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

 

This position will function as a paralegal/administrative assistant for a special project in the Office of the General Counsel.  It involves assisting in the opening and closing of case files, preparing and proofreading legal documents and pleadings, such as petitions, orders, motions, notices, briefs, subpoenas, administrative rules, agreements, and correspondence as directed by attorneys, arranging for service of process and/or publication, reviewing and preparing requests for assignment closures and processing closed files in compliance with public records law, docketing case activities into the Department’s legal tracking system on a daily basis, reviewing mail and docket correspondence and pleadings, and processing a variety of correspondence.  The position will utilize the Criminal Justice Information System, which requires successful background screening (which includes fingerprinting).

 

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended, or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.