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Description
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GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB
This is the first of four levels in the Administrative Support series. Incumbents provide routine, standard clerical support to a department or function. Responsibilities may include answering the telephone and directing calls; providing routine customer service; maintaining an established filing system; running standard reports; entering data; accepting routine or standard payments; sorting and delivering documents; and operating standard office equipment.
***PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION WILL REMAIN OPEN THROUGH MAY 12, 2026, OR UNTIL FILLED.***
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Example of Duties
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SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential Functions
- Responds to requests for information from the general public, staff, and/or other interested parties; answers routine questions; directs callers/visitors to appropriate locations or staff.
- Files documents alphabetically, numerically, or by other prescribed methods in established filing systems.
- Prepares, reviews, and/or processes a variety of routine correspondence, logs information, paperwork, invoices, forms, and/or other related information in assigned area of responsibility; keys information into applicable spreadsheets and/or databases.
- Processes, receives, sorts, and distributes a variety of correspondence, deliveries, and mail; makes photocopies; and faxes documents.
- Monitors and restocks office supplies and materials.
- Runs standard reports in assigned area of responsibility.
- Accepts standard payments and issues receipts.
- Performs other duties of a similar nature or level
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Typical Qualifications
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MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Education and Experience
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
License and Certifications
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Supplemental Information
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Modern office procedures and equipment;
- Customer service principles;
- Filing;
- English language, grammar, and punctuation;
- Basic filing systems;
- Computers and related software applications.
Skill in:
- Operating standard office equipment;
- Maintaining records and files;
- Data entry;
- Using proper English, grammar, punctuation, and spelling;
- Providing customer service;
- Using computers and related software applications;
- Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
Physical Requirements:
The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as, size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. It occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
- Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul, or tug objects, in a sustained motion.
- Pushing:Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. It occurs to a considerale degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.
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