Deputy Clerk
Location: Washington, DC
Announcement Number: CTWD-2025-0002
Salary: $50,326 to - $65,425
Closing Date: August 18, 2025
The Deputy Clerk works in the divisions of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The Deputy Clerk is responsible for providing administrative and clerical support in an office setting.
Duties
The Deputy Clerk will be expected to perform the following duties in a timely and competent manner; exercise sound judgment; work independently and cooperatively; and communicate in a clear and courteous manner.
- Greets customers, provides basic information, and shares relevant resources.
- Responds to inquiries regarding procedural information about cases, proper completion of court forms, and court rules, procedures, and processes.
- Answers incoming phone calls and responds to chat line, video and email inquiries as assigned and where appropriate.
- Monitors cases from initiation to final disposition in accordance with established procedures and designated timelines.
- Receives and processes initial and subsequent filings in accordance with applicable business processes and standard operating procedures, routes filings to appropriate office or work queue.
- Reviews, enters, and updates data in the Superior Court case management system to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and consistency in compliance with time standards.
- Assists in maintaining court calendars by scheduling hearings according to procedures and processes.
- Administers oaths and affirmations in accordance with established procedures and processes.
- Manages case dockets including monitoring overdue or missing documents, files, exhibits, or records.
- Opens, reviews, sorts, and processes or distributes incoming mail, processes outgoing mail.
- Processes checks, money orders, and electronic or cash payments or fees and prepares financial transaction receipts; Prepares end of day report and balances daily receipts to ensure correct reporting.
- Reviews judicial orders to ensure that instructions to the Clerk’s Office are carried out appropriately.
- Prepares correspondence, forms, or other documents such as notices, orders, certificates, warrants, and writs in the appropriate format, style, and content as established by business processes and standard operating procedures.
- Creates and certifies copies of the official record in all matters where certification is necessary.
- Performs special assignments, projects and other duties as assigned; and
- Provides coverage for other divisions and offices as needed.
