Supervising Sheriff's Court Services Assistant
Riverside
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Supervise the processing of legal documents and records through the Sheriff's Court Services process based on established procedures or special instructions from the courts, judges or attorneys in case files; examine documents for conformance with established rules, standards and/or legal requirements. - Interview and recommend hiring of employees, conduct performance evaluations, disciplinary action of employees, and provide and develop training materials manuals, guides, and instructional resources to support employee development and operational consistency, write and establish Court Services procedures, represent and communicate Sheriff’s Court Services Assistant concerns in divisional management meetings. - Supervise the research and preparation of the very complex civil processes involving superior and municipal court litigations; coordinate with attorneys and County agencies in difficult civil litigation executions to ensure appropriate execution action is taken; act as a liaison with vendors for software/hardware applicable to civil records; write technical procedures to comply with legislative changes. - Supervise and resolve technical problems arising in the Civil Trust Accounting system; prepare accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and the station annual budget.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
OPTION I - Experience: One year as a Riverside County Sheriff's Court Services Assistant III. OPTION II - Experience: Three years of fiscal or general clerical experience, including two years of specialized legal services, which involved preparing and processing the full range of legal documents required by the case file building process in a California legal office. One year must have included lead or supervisory experience. ALL OPTIONS - Knowledge of: Supervisory practices; general office practices and procedures; civil legal terminology, procedure and processes; clerical work methods and techniques; legal and general county record-keeping systems and file maintenance methods; available office resource reference materials; specialized typing formats and legal documents used in area of assignment; grammar, spelling and punctuation; forms/formatting techniques and standard correspondence composition practices. Ability to: Understand, interpret and apply laws, regulations, policies, and procedures governing civil legal processing operations; research regulations, citations, case status, procedures, and information from technical resource materials; prepare routine procedural documents outlining work methods; coordinate and perform activities in support of civil legal processes and services; evaluate unusual circumstances and resolve through the application of legal and standard operating procedures; perform routine legal research; communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; discover and correct errors in arithmetical computation, grammar, spelling, and punctuation; lead the work of others in case/document processing activity and civil legal support services.