Assistant Prosecuting Attorney

General Summary

Under the direction of the Prosecuting Attorney and the Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, reviews and authorizes requests for warrants, determines the appropriate charges, and prosecutes criminal cases. Regularly presents criminal cases in circuit, family court, probate court, and district court. Attempts to resolve and dispose of criminal cases or tries cases to bench or jury.

Salary: $67,600.00 ? $82,360.00 annually depending on experience. Competitive benefits package.

Essential Job Functions

This list may not be inclusive of the total scope of the job functions to be performed. Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted or modified at any time.

Employment Qualfications

Education: Law degree from an accredited law school.

Experience: Criminal law experience preferred.

Other Requirements: Licensed to practice law in the State of Michigan.

The qualifications listed above are intended to represent the minimum skills and experience levels associated with performing the duties and responsibilities contained this job description. The qualifications should not be viewed as expressing absolute employment or promotional standards but as general guidelines that should be considered along with other job-related selection or promotional criteria.

Physical Requirements

This job requires the ability to perform the essential functions contained in this description. These include, but are not limited to, the following requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified applicants? unable to fulfill one or more of these requirements.

• Ability to access all courtrooms within the County.
• Ability to remove books or other reference materials from bookshelves and transport materials to worksite.
• Prolonged sitting and standing while in the courtroom.
• Ability to carry briefcases, files, technology, and/or legal volumes to courtrooms.
• Ability to access filing system.
• Ability to enter and retrieve information from computer systems.
• Ability to generate various documents from computer systems.

Working Conditions

Works in an office setting, courtrooms, the county jail, police agency sites and other offsite locations.

Routine exposure to individuals who have been charged and/or convicted of a variety of criminal offenses including sex offenses and assaultive crimes.

TO APPLY: Send a cover letter and resume to SCPA@shiawassee.net