Paralegal 2

at  State of Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission

THE OPPORTUNITY:

The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) is seeking to fill the role of Paralegal 2 within the Legal Support section of the Administrative Law Division. This position will be responsible for providing a range of legal administrative support to the staff and leadership of the Administrative Law Division. Including assisting in hearing preparations, litigation management, records management, and additionally maintains the agency library.
Hybrid:
Although this is a hybrid opportunity, the successful incumbent must reside within Washington state and must be available to report to the Lacey, Washington headquarters building as needed.
Travel:
Occasional travel may be required, which could be outside standard business hours, to meet agency business needs.
Who We Are: Our mission is to protect the people of Washington by ensuring that investor-owned utility and transportation services are safe, equitable, reliable, and fairly priced.
We protect consumers by regulating the rates, services, and practices of private or investor-owned utilities and transportation companies to ensure they are safe, equitable, reliable, and affordable. The UTC is continually recognized for its excellence and integrity as a regulatory agency, as we challenge the status quo and ourselves to ensure equitable outcomes for our customers and the people of Washington State. We recognize that our employees are the key to the agency’s success. We are committed to our work but value balance with our personal lives. We demonstrate our commitment to employees by providing an environment that stimulates professional growth, and offers continuing learning opportunities, meaningful work, and a comprehensive benefits package. For more information about our benefits or working at UTC, please visit our website.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

High school diploma or GED and two (2) years of paralegal or equivalent experience.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Working closely with team members, provide substantive legal support to the Administrative Law Division. You’ll compose legal correspondence, draft notices, and orders in adjudications and rulemakings for the ALD Director or Executive Director’s review and signature. Proofread, edit, and format various legal documents prepared by the Commissioners or Administrative Law Judges for processing.
This position has oversight of the agency’s library with tasks including processing items being added to the collection along with media returning from patron usage, creating requisitions for renewal of serial publications, cataloging and indexing the agency’s library resources in the state catalog, and maintaining the physical library collection and library space.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES INCLUDE, BUT AREN’T LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

• Assist Administrative Law Judges at various stages of the adjudicative process, including drafting notices, drafting orders, and preparing exhibit lists.
• Review requests for mitigation of penalty assessments and draft orders granting or denying mitigation and/or requests for hearing for the Executive Director’s review and signature.
• Review requests for payment arrangements and draft orders granting or denying those requests for an ALJ’s signature.
• Receive and process serial publications, including loose-leaf filing, routing, and table-of- contents service.
• Locate, collect, log and identify, compile, organize, analyze, maintain, and track legal records and factual information when received and follow up when not received.
• Provide information to internal and external customers in response to inquiries regarding commission and ALD processes, procedures, policies, and legal requirements.
• Provide legal administrative support to ALD Director, ALJs, and supervisor.
• Schedule hearings, public meetings, and court reporters, and arrange for hearing rooms and resources, both local and statewide.
• Lead annual adoption by reference rulemaking.
• Schedule meetings/training for ALD staff. Prepare training requests and other administrative forms.