GUARDIAN AD LITEM, 10TH CIRCUIT - Senior Attorney - 21013950

Requisition No: 815899 

Agency: Justice Administrative Commission

Working Title: GUARDIAN AD LITEM, 10TH CIRCUIT - Senior Attorney - 21013950

Position Number: 21013950 

Salary:  $60,000.00 

Posting Closing Date: 04/30/2024 

 

 

STATEWIDE GUARDIAN AD LITEM OFFICE

GUARDIAN AD LITEM SENIOR ATTORNEY

 

IMPORTANT! – Please navigate to the following website:  www.guardianadlitem.org to apply for this position:

 

• Click on the “Career Opportunities” icon.
• Scroll down to the link, “Submit Your Guardian ad Litem Employment Application Here.”
• Complete the “mini” job application and attach your current resume.
• Select POLK COUNTY for the job location

   OR

• Email your mini application and resume directly to C10.Apps@gal.fl.gov

 

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

The Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office is Florida’s award-winning, state-funded child advocacy organization. With more than 10,000 staff and volunteers, which includes more than 180 attorneys, its primary focus is the powerful and effective representation of Florida’s abused, neglected, and abandoned children. Most of these children are abruptly removed from their homes, and sadly, many end up in foster care.  The Office’s mission is to provide the most vulnerable children in Florida with an adult from their community who will be a consistent, positive presence in the child's life as part of a multi-disciplinary team that always includes an attorney, child welfare professional and hopefully a community volunteer if one is available, providing the highest quality community advocacy and independent legal representation to protect each child's legal interests.

 

A critical function is to provide dependency judges with thorough and accurate information regarding the children under the court’s jurisdiction. The Office’s core values strongly reinforce and enhance its mission. Those values are:

• Commitment to Children
• Communication Built on Trust
• Collective Empowerment
• Collaboration
• Courtesy

 

An excellent overview of the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office can be found at www.guardianadlitem.org.

 

BENEFITS PACKAGE

As an employee with the State of Florida, your benefits are a significant part of your compensation with 19 percent of your total compensation coming from the benefits that the State offers. As a fulltime employee, your insurance rate will be significantly low due to the contribution of the State of Florida. In fact, single coverage is as low as $8.34 per month with family coverage costing only $30 per month.

While the rates are higher for halftime employees, health insurance options are still available to you as long as you are in a salaried position.

 

EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS:  

• State of Florida Retirement package – Pension or investment plan (3% employee contribution required)
• (9) Paid state holidays
• (1) Paid personal holiday
• (13) Paid sick leave days
• (176) Annual leave hours
• Life insurance $25,000 is provided by the state at no cost to you for all FTE positions.  Employee may purchase additional coverage
• Additional supplemental insurances are available such as dental, vision, disability, etc. 
• Florida Bar annual dues are paid for by the Agency, contingent upon agency approval
• Public Loan Forgiveness Program
• No State of Florida income tax for residents of Florida
• No mandatory night/weekend/holiday scheduled work
• State Tuition Waiver Program

An excellent overview of the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office can be found at www.guardianadlitem.org.

 

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

 

The Guardian ad Litem Office Senior Attorney is a highly responsible position providing guardian ad litem legal representation for children under the jurisdiction of Florida’s dependency courts. The incumbent will represent the independent legal interests of each individual child using the best interest standard of representation in the cases assigned by the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office. Work is performed under the supervision of the Managing Attorney or his or her designee.

 

ABOUT THE WORK

 

• The Senior Attorney may function as the attorney in a three-member multi-disciplinary guardian ad litem team or as an attorney guardian ad litem, representing each child with a focus on timely achievement of permanency and normalcy for the child.
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