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Department: Criminal Court Services/Office of Indigent Defense

Job Title: Manager - Criminal Court Services/Office of Indigent Defense

Annual Salary: $150,677.00

Shift Hours: Monday through Friday (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Education, Experience and Skill requirements

• Requires a college degree
• Requires 5 or more years of experience in the court system
• Requires intermediate to advanced word processing, spreadsheet, and/or other type of computer software experience.
• Bilingual in Spanish - preferred.

Primary Job Duties

• Manage the scheduling, coordinating, and supervision of FT or PT employees of OID and the criminal court office of administration. Assist in budget, payroll, employment process, and purchasing decisions.
• Report to designated criminal court judges on matters of usefulness and interest to the judiciary in order to inform their administrative decision-making.
• Maintaining Calendars for the various overflow courtrooms, the On Call Calendar, drafting minutes for criminal court judge meetings.
• Meeting with Criminal Judges, District and County Clerks, and all stakeholders and other experts for information gathering, information sharing, and strategic planning.
• Maintain the CCL and District Court Wheels, managing and advising on the contract defender system for felony and misdemeanor cases.
• Drafting reports using data gathered from CMS, the State OCA, the Clerks and other sources, and presenting them to the criminal courts in a readable and easy to understand format.
• Setting up, coordinating and attending various meetings with various configurations may involve creating the agenda for the meeting, may involve creating rough notes of a meeting in minutes are not required. 
• Accepting and submitting completed criminal appointments, creating and managing reporting requirements for the contract defender system.
• Use of Finance system to pay various invoices received by the courts to be paid out of special revenue funds, transferring funds as necessary to cover all expenditures.
• Editing information and adding new reports for public review as directed by the Board of Judges as well as adding new reports to, and curating the X-Drive.
• Drafting correspondence, emails, answering telephone calls, serving on various committees and workgroups.
• Completing ad hoc jobs that not listed above.
• Creating and inputting information into a variety of calendars that contribute to judicial organization, drafting and submitting minutes for an official record of the criminal court judges.

After receiving a conditional offer of employment, applicant must pass a drug screen (1/2 cost = $20.00, responsibility of applicant) and may need a physical agility test (1/2 cost = $22.50, responsibility of applicant) before becoming an employee of Montgomery County.  

Montgomery County provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.