Job Title: Legal Assistant
Duration: 12+ Months (Will Be Extended Per A Prior Conversation)
Location: Toledo, OH-100% Onsite
Pay Rate: $19.09 /hour on w2.
Job Summary:
Imagine if lawyers, judges, and decision makers used rigorous evidence to design and run the U.S. justice system. They could:
• enable far more people, especially those who can’t afford to hire lawyers, to access civil justice.
• make the criminal justice system fairer and more efficient; and
• promote the dignity and respect of individuals and families as they encounter the justice system.
Job Specific Responsibilities:
As an Intake Coordinator you will, for the Persistent Low-Level Offender Diversion Program Evaluation:
- Coordinate and execute study consent protocols in compliance with Institutional Review Board direction and with the specific direction and instructions of the A2J Lab front-line researcher
- Following established protocols, conduct enrollment of participants, set up participants to take surveys online, and collect data.
- Support maintaining contact with study participants and with survey non-response follow-up
- Support coding data into spreadsheets
- Under close supervision, facilitate communications and follow up on open items with the Toledo Municipal Court and its stakeholders, and third-party administrative data holders
- As part of the study team, troubleshoot operational issues as they arise
- As needed, will assist with administrative support for research studies, including but not limited to, scanning, transmitting, and mailing records.
- Update project documentation related to study operations of the A2J Lab and field partners
- Perform other duties as assigned
Basic Qualifications :
High school education or equivalent experience.
Additional Qualifications
We are looking for people who have:
- At least one-year of related experience (relevant course work may count) as an asset
- Strong communication skills
- Knowledge of research populations, including lived experience as a justice-system impacted individual, preferred
- Ability to multi-task
- Prior experience in project management and organization preferred
- Strong cooperation skills and motivation
- Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite
- Proficiency in Spanish, as an asset
