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COURT RESEARCH ANALYST: Supreme Court of Nevada, Judicial Programs and Services Division, AOC. Las Vegas, NV. Summary: This position is within the Judicial Programs and Services Division, Administrative Office of the Courts, and supports all aspects of the Uniform System for Judicial Records (USJR) court statistical reporting project and other research projects. Duties: Tasks include data entry and quantitative research of statewide court data, assisting with development of research data dictionaries and definitions, drafting reports for publication, and other related tasks. The incumbent must communicate clearly and effectively with judges, court administrators, staff, consultants, contract employees, customers, and senior positions in various state and local agencies. The incumbent must also be able to understand the business needs of the courts and recommend to management appropriate activities to meet those needs. This vacancy may be filled at the entry level, intermediate, or senior level depending on applicant’s qualifications and experience. The position will be required to attend meetings outside of normal working hours; work occasional evening and weekend hours; and will be required to travel statewide as necessary. A valid driver’s license is required.  This position is located in Las Vegas.  Qualifications: For entry level (Court Research Analyst I), equivalent to possession of a bachelor’s degree, preferably with major course work in business or public administration, statistics, mathematics, social sciences, or related field with a concentration in research methods and one year of professional or paraprofessional experience in research, development, evaluation, or revision of programs. Experience in a related field may be substituted for the education on a year-for-year basis. Court experience is desirable. Intermediate level (Court Research Analyst II) requires similar education and minimum 2 years experience; senior level (Court Research Analyst III) requires similar education and minimum 3 years experience. Salary range: Court Research Analyst I $41,906 - $61,950 DOE, employee/employer paid retirement. Court Research Analyst II $45,560 - $67,692 DOE, employee/employer paid retirement. Court Research Analyst III $49,694 - $74,082 DOE, employee/employer paid retirement. (2008)

BUDGET ANALYST: New York Unified Court System. Summary: With substantial independence from supervision, Budget Analysts work in the Office of Court Administrations (OCA's) Budget and Finance Office and in other OCA units where they are primarily responsible for analyzing, reviewing, and assisting in the implementation of a specific component of the Unified Court Budget. Budget Analysts also provide confidential assistance in formulating budget policies and preparing a component of the Unified Court Budget. Budget Analysts are usually assigned to evaluate the budgets of courts that are located in a particular geographic area or those that have the same legal jurisdiction. They may also be responsible for supervising Principal Court Analysts and other subordinate personnel, and for performing other related duties. Duties: Reviews budget requests for accuracy and conformance with budget guidelines. Prepares reports with recommendations and evaluations of the need for the appropriation requested. Reviews written budget justifications for subsequent submission to the Legislature. Monitors expenditures for compliance with approved appropriations and projects expenditures based on reports from Audit and Control. Evaluates requests for changes in approved budgets. Prepares budget certificates for segregation of funds and correspondence related to budget transactions. Responds to inquiries from local court personnel, OCA staff, and staff of legislative committees. Qualifications: One year in the Principal Court Analyst title; or Master's degree in Public or Business Administration from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of relevant experience.

ANALYSTS (General Description) Summary: This position will be required to exercise leadership and analytical skills. They will assist in the development and implementation of programs, policies, and procedures as well as analyzing research and data in order to evaluate existing programs. Qualifications: This individual should possess in master’s degree in a related field and have at approximately three years experience in the particular field.

MANAGEMENT ANALYST: New York Unified Court System. Summary: Management Analysts are responsible to the Director of the Office of Court Administration`s (OCA`s) Management and Planning Office, or to other court administrators and administrative judges, for supervising a number of on-going projects involving confidential research, analysis, planning, and policy formulation related to court administration and management. Management Analysts also participate in complex projects under the direction of Senior and Principal Management Analysts, work with substantial independence from supervision on individual research projects, and perform other related duties. Duties: Determines methodologies to be used in data collection and analysis. Establishes a timetable for data collection. Assigns fact-finding teams to courts and court agencies. Reviews collected data for appropriateness and consistency. Analyzes data, prepares conclusions and recommendations, and prepares a final written or oral report. Supervises and evaluates the work of Principal, Senior, and Court Analysts, or other subordinate personnel. Supervises the preparation of resource materials and training manuals. Qualifications: One year in the Principal Court Analyst title; or Master`s degree in Public or Business Administration from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of relevant experience.

PERSONNEL ANALYST: New York Unified Court System. Summary: With substantial independence from supervision, Personnel Analysts work in the Office of Court Administration`s (OCA`s) Personnel Office, and in other OCA units where they are responsible for providing confidential assistance in activities requiring specialized knowledge of personnel policies and procedures in the Unified Court System. These activities include: recruitment of non-judicial personnel; payroll preparation; classification of positions; and employee relations. Personnel Analysts assist in the formulation of personnel policy, supervise teams of court analysts and other subordinate personnel assigned to special projects, and perform other related duties. Duties: Organizes reports utilizing data collected by a team of analysts and prepares recommendations. Determines the need to conduct examinations by analyzing position vacancies, eligibility lists, and staffing requirements. Supervises desk audits and interviews employees to determine appropriate classification of positions. Responds to personnel inquiries from local court administrators concerning recruitment and hiring procedures. Writes or reviews title specifications and examination announcements. Assists in the maintenance of eligibility lists and the certification of lists. Supervises the work of clerical support staff. Qualifications: One year in the Principal Court Analyst title; or Master`s degree in Public or Business Administration from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of relevant experience.

ATTORNEY 1: Office of Trial Court Services, Municipal Court Services Division, AOC, Trenton, NJ. Summary: The New Jersey Judiciary is seeking an Attorney to work under the direction of the Court Executive 2b (Chief Municipal Court Services, Judiciary) or other supervisory personnel. Duties: This individual will review and analyze new legislation; assist in developing an “Electronic Municipal Court Bench Book”; prepare reports of findings from legal research; and review ordinances, statutes and regulations for inclusion in the ATS/ACS schedule via JUATS. This individual will also be responsible for updating the Statewide Violation Bureau Schedule and the Uniform Traffic Ticket, and undertake such other assignments as may be made by the Court Executive 2b, or other supervisory personnel. Qualifications: Graduation from an American Bar Association-approved law school. One year of experience as an attorney in the public or private practice of law, including professional legal research and analyzing and evaluating legal documents, rules, regulations, and legislation or one year of experience as a New Jersey Judicial law clerk. Salary: $59,570 - $92,839 (2008)

EXECUTIVE ANALYST: Communication and Staff Education Analyst, Oregon Judicial Department. Duties: Typical job duties may include, but are not limited to, the tasks listed below.  Assigned tasks may be changed to accommodate work load and organizational needs. Independently perform a variety of duties including, but not limited to: Provide advice and consultation for ongoing professional development and communication activities, including regular education and communication on improving access to justice and enhancing public trust and confidence in the justice system.   Design, assess, create, deliver, and evaluate new and existing curricula for staff education programs from concept through evaluation utilizing concepts, theories, principles, and practices of adult learning. Facilitate groups with varied backgrounds, to initiate open dialogue and candid discussions, gather information and stimulate insight. Keep abreast of national trends in education in court-related as well as public and private sector environments. Qualifications: You must have a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent work or life experience. You must have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably with major course work in communication and/or education.  You must have at least three years of increasingly responsible communication and/or education work experience. A master’s degree may be substituted for one year of experience; a doctorate in education, law, public administration, or related field may be substituted for one year of experience. Applicants without the relevant educational background may substitute recent experience that demonstrates the above abilities on a year for year basis. Preference may be given to candidates with prior experience working in a court setting or developing and presenting education programs. Public sector (e.g. state, county, city) communication and/or education experience is desirable. You must be able to work effectively with persons from diverse backgrounds. Salary: $4,796 - $7,444/month (2008)

PRINCIPAL COURT ANALYST: Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Court Improvement Programs, Cohoes , New York . Duties: With substantial independence from supervision, Principal Court Analysts work individually or as team leaders on projects that involve research and confidential analysis, planning, and other related work in one or more of the following areas: budget development and court finance; personnel administration; resource allocation; and court system management and administration. As team leaders, Principal Court Analysts supervise Senior Court Analysts, Court Analysts, and Junior Court Analysts assigned to a single study component of a large and complex project. Qualifications: One year in the Senior Court Analyst title; or Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and three years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree in public or business administration from an accredited college or university and two years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.  Salary: $57,053 (2007 )

SENIOR COURT ANALYST: Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Court Improvement Programs, Cohoes , New York . Duties: Under supervision, Senior Court Analysts work individually or as team leaders, on projects that involve research and confidential analysis, planning and other related work in one or more of the following areas: budget development and court finance; personnel administration; resource allocation; and court system management and administration. As team leaders, Senior Court Analysts supervise Junior Court Analysts and Court Analysts assigned to field or research projects of narrow scope. Qualifications: One year in the Senior Court Analyst title; or Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and three years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree in public or business administration from an accredited college or university and one year of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.  Salary: $51,298 (2007)

SENIOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS ANALYST: Burbank , California .  AOC. Summary: The Center for Families, Children & the Courts has a temporary Senior Business Applications Analyst opening in the Southern Regional Office of the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). This Senior Business Applications Analyst position will work on the California Court Case Management System (CCMS), which is a statewide initiative to bring the courts together to use one application for all case types. Development began in 2002 and implementation is planned through 2012. The CCMS application includes Criminal and Traffic, Civil, Small Claims and Probate; and Family Law, Juvenile and Mental Health case types. Duties: Under the supervision of the CFCC Supervising Research Analyst and joint direction of CFCC and CCMS management, this Senior Business Applications Analyst will be responsible for working on teams charged with design, development, configuration, and testing of the CCMS family and juvenile modules as well as automated court services for self-represented litigants. This position will represent the needs of family and juvenile court business users and will serve as a functional liaison with CCMS project and information systems technical staff, and provide business functional analysis related to application development, maintenance and support. Qualifications: Equivalent to possession of a bachelor's degree, preferably with major course work in public administration, or business administration, and four years experience in business process analysis, functional operational system documentation, and workflow analysis, including one year of project management experience and one year of lead experience. OR One year as a Business Applications Analyst with the judicial branch. (Additional experience may be substituted for the education on a year-for-year basis. Possession of a directly related postgraduate degree may be substituted for one year of experience). Salary: $6,457 - $8,240  (2007)

BUSINESS ANALYST: Unified Judicial System, Pierre , South Dakota . Summary: This position elicits, analyzes, specifies and validates the business needs of project stakeholders, whether outside or within the UJS, by planning and coordinating Information and Technology-related business, financial, and operations systems in support of core organizational functions and business processes. Duties: Duties include: serving as the conduit between the Information and Technology staff and other judicial staff to develop business technology solutions that ensure continuity of operations and improved and efficient services to staff and citizens; identifying and defining uniform business practice issues; monitoring, identifying, and interpreting legislative changes; coordinating systems user testing efforts to ensure that final solutions meet business needs; managing IT service request priority list according to IT Request Management Process on enhancements to existing applications; coordinating the implementation of business changes and identifying specific impact to those to IT; working with IT to identify, scope, functional requirements, test plans, and implementation schedules for court automation projects.   Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public information, computer science, management information systems or a related field is preferred, as is certification by the Institute for Court Management’s Court Executive Development Program or Court Management program. Three years experience in a court environment in a lead position.  Salary: $47,991.96 - $55,190.75 (2007)

SENIOR COURT SERVICES ANALYST: Court Interpreters Program, California Judiciary San Francisco, CA. Summary: Become a part of a dynamic program supporting language access to justice in the most linguistically diverse state in the nation. The Senior Court Services Analyst in the Court Interpreters Program of the Executive Office Programs Division, Administrative Office of the Courts, will perform advanced analytical and consultative work on a variety of court interpreter related projects or services. Duties: Act as a lead on assigned projects, ensuring that individual and team projects are completed on schedule and within budget, and provide status updates to the CIP supervisor/manager; Provide lead direction, training, and work review to other CIP staff. Conduct and oversee studies and initiatives, including gathering data, analyzing findings, and preparing analytical reports and programmatic or policy recommendations; Gather, analyze and apply data to help formulate policy and programs that advance branch-wide strategic and operational plans. Lead in the development, initiation and monitoring of projects, including budgets, requests for proposal, selection of outside professional consultants, and preparation and management of professional services contracts; Explore and recommend strategies to improve current language access policies and programs, and related public outreach efforts focusing on minority language communities; Review completed projects, designs, and studies to evaluate desired effectiveness; Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders in identifying and developing court access projects related to interpreters and language issues; Communicate with interpreter representatives, judicial officers, trial court administrators and staff on judicial branch policies, certification standards, and complaint resolution; Assist in staffing the Court Interpreter Advisory Panel and its subcommittees, including preparing written reports, agendas, meeting materials, proposals, and recommendations; and Respond to inquiries from the public, state and federal agencies, state and national professional organizations, and out-of-state courts regarding California’s court interpreters program. Must be available to work occasional overtime and available for occasional travel statewide as necessary. Qualifications: Equivalent to possession of a bachelor’s degree, preferably with major course work in court, public, or business administration, and three years of professional analytical or managerial experience in court, governmental, or other organizational operations that has involved program analysis, development, and implementation, including one year of lead experience. Additional directly related experience may be substituted for the education on a year-for-year basis. Possession of a directly related postgraduate degree or certification from the Institute for Court Management (ICM) may be substituted for one of the three years of required experience. OR: One year as a Court Services Analyst with the judicial branch. Salary: $6,055 - $7,358 per month. (2007)

BUSINESS ANALYST SPECIALIST V: Court Services Department, AOC, Phoenix, AZ. Summary: This position provides support to courts through project management, organizing, planning, testing, rolling out and training new releases and modules of automated court case management systems. Duties: Essential functions include reviewing completed Remedy documentation and solutions provided about and for the court case management system which involve court operational procedures and ensuring that the answers and solutions provided are correct, taking corrective action when necessary. Assisting in standardizing the solutions portion of the systems.   In-depth research of problems courts encounter using court automation software. Additional responsibilities include developing and maintaining operational procedures that will guide and assist courts in using court automation software, testing these procedures, and publishing them on the web for easy access. Other duties include assisting in table data definition, testing new versions of AZTEC, and recommending procedures to be documented for the courts. Qualifications: The successful candidate will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Public or Judicial Administration, Criminal Justice, or related field, and five years of relevant experience or the equivalent. The ideal candidate will have professional level oral and written communication skills, be able to multi-task, and possess the ability to provide highly responsible administrative and technical work independently with minimal supervision. The position requires travel to courts and training sites within Arizona , overnight stays of several days’ duration may be necessary periodically. A good working knowledge of AZTEC or case management systems, court procedures, rules, and Arizona statutes, and experience with Informix databases, experience in using report writing software, ability to interpret legislation and policies, court automation experience, and the ability to exercise independent judgment in decision making are preferred. Some travel up to 25% is required. Salary: $45,951 - $55,141. (2007)

APETS SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST, SPECIALIST VI: Arizona Supreme Court, AOC, Adult Probation Services. Summary: Do you have five years experience in Arizona ’s court or probation system, knowledge of Arizona’s Adult Probation system, and a degree in Criminal Justice, Public Administration, Social Services, or a related field? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment? Would you like to help develop Arizona’s adult probation tracking database and assist counties with its use? Put your knowledge and experience to work for the Adult Probation Services Division of the Arizona Supreme Court. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a real impact on the State Courts Probation System and are interested in serving your community and the State of Arizona, this may be the job for you! Duties: Under the general supervision of the APETS Business Manager, this position is responsible for determining operational and functional probation business requirements for the statewide probation automation program and assists the APETS Business Manager and ITD Technical Lead with project planning. The Senior Business Analyst provides long-range and short-term multiple project planning as well as ongoing quality assurance of automation efforts. In addition, the position performs software testing and provides second-level application support to the probation departments; leads workgroups related to statewide automation policies, data quality requirements, integration projects and business analysis; and develops and maintains written manuals and other appropriate automation project documentation. The person will also assist Adult Probation Services Division staff in conducting evaluations and analytical studies. Qualifications: The successful candidate will hold a Bachelor’s Degree in criminal justice, social/computer sciences or a related field (advanced degree preferred) and have at least 5 years of experience in the field of probation, parole, courts, community corrections, or a related field. In addition, required skills include a demonstrated ability to lead, plan, organize, and manage multiple projects simultaneously; exercise sound, professional judgment in making independent decisions; demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills; and the ability to facilitate workgroups and lead projects. The candidate should also have experience with large automation projects and knowledge of research methods and statistical analysis. Salary: $50,130 - $60,156. (2007)

ETHICS ANALYST: New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection, AOC, Trenton, NJ. Duties: The New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection has an immediate opening for an individual to assist the Funds’ practicing lawyers with: legal and factual research; preparation of pleadings and other documents; and support for litigation in New Jersey’s state and federal courts. Qualifications: Satisfactory completion of one year of law school or current enrollment as first year law student with substantial legal writing experience. NOTE: This position is limited to a maximum of 944 hours in a given fiscal year. SPECIAL NOTE: For third year law students, the possibility exists for court appearance under R.1:21-3. Salary: $15.41 per hour. (2007)