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Administrative Support Specialist

City of Clarksville

City of Clarksville

Administration, Customer Service
Clarksville, TN, USA
Posted 6+ months ago

Description

**PLEASE NOTE: THIS VACANCY IS LOCATED AT THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT.**
GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB:
This is the third of four levels in the Administrative Support series. Incumbents provide primarily non-routine administrative support to a department or function. Duties require the interpretation of policies and procedures and the use of independent judgment. Responsibilities may include taking formal meeting minutes; tracking expenditures and budget status; creating unique, complex documents and correspondence; compiling, reviewing, correcting, and approving data; maintaining an inventory of supplies and/or equipment; preparing bids; and performing the duties of the lower levels. Incumbents may provide work direction to lower-level staff.

Example of Duties

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: (These duties are a representative sample; position assignments may vary.)
  1. Composes, edits, and reviews a variety of standard and/or specialized correspondence, reports, documents, applications, forms, violations, memos, and/or other applicable materials.

  2. Prepares meeting agendas and minutes; attends meetings and takes formal meeting minutes; distributes meeting minutes to appropriate individuals.

  3. Reviews and corrects a variety of data, confidential records, and information for the department.

  4. Organizes and maintains files, including creating and maintaining confidential department/employee files; files documents alphabetically, numerically, or by other prescribed methods.

  5. Maintains appropriate office supply levels within assigned area of responsibility; requisitioning supplies as needed.

  6. Tracks a budget and monitors expenditures.

  7. May prioritize and assign work to lower-level staff; monitor the performance of lower-level staff; train staff on work methods and procedures; and participate in staff evaluations.

  8. Performs other related work as required.

Typical Qualifications

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE: (positions in this class typically require):
  • High school graduate or GED equivalent; or

  • An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the job's essential duties.

Supplemental Information

LICENSE and CERTIFICATIONS: (positions in this class typically require):
Licensing Requirements:
  • Some positions may require certification in area of responsibility.
KNOWLEDGE (position requirements at entry):
Knowledge of:
  • Modern office procedures and equipment.

  • Recordkeeping principles.

  • Mathematical concepts.

  • English language, grammar, and punctuation.

  • Report preparation techniques.

  • Filing systems.

  • Basic budgeting principles.

  • Customer service principles.

  • Computers and related software applications.

SKILLS (position requirements at entry):
Skill in:
  • Maintaining records and files.

  • Preparing meeting agendas and minutes.

  • Preparing specialized documents.

  • Preparing reports.

  • Using proper English, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

  • Monitoring a budget.

  • Using computers and related software applications.

  • Maintaining confidentiality.

  • Prioritizing and assigning work.

  • Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisor, the 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 considerable 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.



NOTE:
The above job description is intended to represent only the key areas of responsibilities; specific position assignments will vary depending on the business needs of the department.