AssistantPublicDefender

**Agency** Indigent Defense Services **Division** PUBLIC DEFENDER 18 DISTRICT **Job Classification Title** Assistant Public Defender (NS) **Position Number** 60008447 **Grade** 30013288 **About Us** DO YOUR CAREER JUSTICE! Each and every day, North Carolina's courts help provide safety for our communities, prosperity for our economy, and protection for the rights, liberties, and freedoms that sit at the foundation of our state and federal constitutions. Consider an exciting and rewarding career with us and join the more than 7,000 elected officials and employees who make up our workforce and help us ensure that justice is administrated without favor, denial, or delay. **Description of Work** **Knowledge Skills and Abilities/Management Preferences** **SALARY RANGE: $54,369.00 - $101,299.00** The Office of the Public Defender, District 18, which consists of Chatham and Orange counties, is seeking a qualified individual to serve as an Assistant Public Defender in our **Chatham County** office. The attorney will likely be assigned to juvenile cases, misdemeanors, low- and high- level felonies. All Assistant Public Defenders must be capable of handling complex cases, and challenging clients while maintaining positive, professional relationships with co-workers, clients and the public. Attorneys are expected to visit clients in jail, prison facilities, travel outside of the office to conduct investigative procedures, and on occasion work evenings or weekends to ensure preparation for court proceedings. Applicants must have a strong desire and commitment to client advocacy and indigent defense. **Spanish language fluency is helpful but not required.** **Knowledge, Skills and Abilities / Competencies:** **Knowledge of:** Federal, State, common and constitutional law; judicial procedures and rules of evidence; case, statutory, regulatory and common law; NC General Statutes to defend criminal cases; judicial and quasi-judicial procedures; and legal research methods. **Skills