Legal Services Assistant

Why Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)

We come from humble beginnings — picture a one-person organization created in 1949 to advocate for excellence in public education on behalf of Texas school board members. Flash forward to today, and we have over 500 employees working together to provide 1,024 school districts with purposeful resources so they can focus on what matters most — excellent and equitable education for all 5.4 million Texas students. 

As TASBeans (our internal name for employees), we feel privileged to work alongside talented team-members who are passionate about education and enjoy learning from new and different perspectives.  We believe what makes our organization highly successful is the rich diversity our employees collectively bring to TASB with different backgrounds, skillsets, cultures and ethnicities, gender identities, interests, abilities, and work styles. And our passion for education and learning doesn’t end there. Our culture has always encouraged employees to grow and become their best selves both professionally and personally through a variety of innovative and collaborative development opportunities. You’re likely beginning to see why we’ve been regularly named by Austin Business Journal as a Top Ten Best Places to Work! 

TASB offers competitive pay, rich benefits (including retirement matching of 2:1 up to 5% after one year. This means that if you contribute 5% to the plan, TASB will contribute 10%), onsite daycare, onsite gym, wellness program, tuition reimbursement, remote work options, flexible schedules, and more. 

Every role at TASB thoughtfully complements our mission and the educational impact being made in communities across Texas. If you consider your work exceptional and want to help drive our mission forward, keep reading!

About You

As a Legal Services Assistant, you will provide professional support and customer service to Legal Services and Community College Services staff and excellent customer service to TASB members. You will be primarily responsible for writing, cite checking, managing, and publishing online materials. You will work with team members on projects such as software development, planning and providing support for training events, membership and subscription management, preparing/editing handouts, and PowerPoints. You work with and coordinate projects with internal departments on issues related to billing, data base management, and more. You will manage your projects independently and meet or beat deadlines. You will also work as part of a team on major projects to achieve TASB and service area goals. This is an Austin-based onsite position. 

A Typical Day 

• Work with content authors to create, maintain, and update online resources.
• Review, edit, and cite check handouts, articles, marketing materials, correspondence, and training materials to ensure accuracy, consistency, and conformity with TASB, Legal Services, and generally accepted legal rules of style.
• Format and finalize the TASB School Law Update Newsletter, the Community College Newsletter, Legal Assistance Fund Annual Report and publish online.
• Prepare minutes for quarterly board meetings.
• Track and manage member subscriptions to online newsletters and libraries and send out monthly e-mail notifications to subscribers.
• Work with team members to plan and provide support for major training events held across the state.
• If you’re still reading, we’d love to meet you!

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Serve as division web content manager and work collaboratively with TASB online Communications.
• Work with content authors to create, maintain, and update online resources, including eSource, eLaw, and Legal Research Library.
• Use the TASB Content Management System (CMS) for Web production and editing and serve as department CMS power user.
• Review, edit, and cite check handouts, articles, marketing materials, correspondence, and training materials to ensure accuracy, consistency, and conformity with TASB, Legal Services, and generally accepted legal rules of style.
• Cite check policy codes in major policy updates, typically two or three times per year.
• Assist attorneys with drafting, designing, formatting, and cite checking handouts, briefs, and publications.
• Format and finalize the TASB School Law Update Newsletter, the Community College Newsletter, Legal Assistance Fund Annual Report and publish online.
• Assist in division training-related projects, including: design and production of marketing brochures and flyers, Lone Star ad design and publishing, and handout/materials coordination.
• Serve as division liaison for reviewing and posting documents on the online bookstore.