Clerk Secretary

Department

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Education Staff

$52,062.00 - $57,606.00

JC-- Clerk Secretary (C94 L2872 RIDE DAVIES, SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF)

A thorough knowledge of office methods, practices, procedures and terms; a thorough knowledge of business English; a working knowledge of commercial arithmetic; the ability to perform complex data entry/word processing functions with reasonable speed and accuracy* ; the ability to generate reports, documents, letters and other materials using appropriate software applications; the ability organize data and formulate methods for data presentation;

to the ability to handle, independently, routine but important administrative details including the composition of important letters and memoranda; the ability exercise a high degree of initiative and judgement; the ability to understand and follow complex written or oral instructions; the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other state departments or agencies, public and private organizations and departmental or agency personnel;

and related capacities and abilities.

Such as may have been gained through graduation from a senior high school, including or supplemented by courses typing, word processing and business practices; and

Such as may have been gained through employment in a responsible secretarial position including difficult or complex clerical duties and the independent handling of important but minor administrative details.

any combination of education and experience that shall be substantially equivalent to the above education and experience.

JR103818 CLERK SECRETARY (Open)

C00B16 A

Clerk Secretary

To serve as a private secretary to a director or assistant director of a state department or agency; to relieve such official of important administrative details; to handle correspondence and other routine matters; and to do related work as required.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Assignments and instructions are given in broad outline with specific instructions only in unusual or unprecedented situations; only important and/or complicated assignments are reviewed upon completion.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
May supervise and review the work of a small clerical staff, but normally this class will serve in an advisory or consulting capacity to this staff.

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED:
To serve as a private secretary to a director or assistant director of a state department or agency.

To relieve such official of important administrative details such as: arranging his conferences and meetings with other state officials as well as representatives of other public, private, professional organizations; answering all types of verbal and written inquiries of an administrative nature which do not involve complex interpretations of departmental or agency policies and procedures; and reviewing correspondence, memoranda, statements, forms and records for content and compliance, with administrative policies and procedures, signing all such documents as authorized on his behalf.

To be responsible for routine office matters such as: composing, independently, all kinds of correspondence not requiring administrative judgement and interpretation of the policies and rules and regulations of the department or agency and signing such correspondence; obtaining information or material needed by the department or agency head in answering correspondence, conducting telephone conversations, preparing speeches or in…