NYS OAG - Legal Education & Professional Development Bureau - Paid Opportunity for a Student Assistant

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Legal Recruitment Bureau

Division of Administration

Legal Education & Professional Development Bureau

Student Assistant - New York City

Reference No. LEPD_STA_NYC_2018-19


The Legal Education & Professional Development Bureau (LEPD) of the New York State Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is seeking a talented and qualified graduate or undergraduate student to assist with all logistics involved with developing, administering and deploying a robust training and professional development curriculum and schedule. This is a 30-hour week paid position. The preferred hours are Monday – Friday 9:30 – 4:30, or a regular four-day work week.

LEPD is responsible for providing professional development opportunities and skills training to all OAG employees, including continuing legal education (CLE) programs for OAG and other New York State government attorneys.   Working in the New York City office, the selected student will assist the training team in Albany and in New York City with all aspects of administering and executing the training and professional development curriculum and schedule.

Assignments will include but not be limited to:

  • Room set-up, registration, customer support and troubleshooting technical issues during training program;
  • Manage initial contact and messaging to new NYC hires regarding Mandatory Training,  manage attendance lists and reports for compliance;
  • Assist NYC and Albany Trainers in creating, posting, and announcing Professional Development courses, as well as creating sign-in sheets and tracking attendance in our online learning management system;
  • Creating and editing updates to the Legal Education and Professional Development (LEPD) Intranet page;
  • Managing the Training email box;
  • Coordinate program viewing of CLE’s, Group Replay of CLE’s, messaging and logistics planning;
  • Assist with booking event space for training being held at 28 Liberty training spaces for all programs
  • Communicate with IT on program days for computer and room needs;
  • In charge of executing all arrangements for Live and Webcasting programs from booking, registration, sign-in sheets, monitoring the room, working with TotalWebcasting, IT and Administrative Services;
  • Assist NYC Trainer in all Training and CLE needs; and
  • Other duties as assigned

We seek applicants with the following qualifications:

  • Proficiency in MS Office and Survey Monkey;
  • Excellent writing and analytical skills;
  • Detail-oriented and highly organized; and
  • Demonstrates a high degree of customer service acumen and professionalism, as well as the ability to work well with employees from all staffing levels.

Applicants must be enrolled in a 12 hour credit program as a college student and be able to work a 30 hour week. Given the scope of the projects/initiatives that will be assigned, the student must be able to commit to the student assistant position for a full school year.  Applicants are asked to indicate their availability in their cover letter.


How To Apply

Applications are being received online. To apply, please click on this link:  LEPD_STA_NYC_2018-19; applicants will be taken to the online application page for this position.

Applicants must be prepared to submit a complete application consisting of the following:

Please note: Failure to submit a complete application will delay the consideration of your application.

If you have questions regarding a position with the OAG and the application process or you need assistance with submitting your application, please contact the Legal Recruitment Bureau via email at recruitment@ag.ny.gov or phone at 212-416-8080.

For more information about the OAG, please visit our website: www.ag.ny.gov

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