Administrative Secretary

Job Information

• Opening Date/Time: 02/17/2026 12:00AM Central Time
• Closing Date/Time: 02/23/2026 11:59PM Central Time
• Salary (Monthly): $3,229.00 - $4,041.00
• Salary (Annually): $38,748.00 - $48,492.00
• Job Type: Full-Time
• City, State
  
  Location:
  
  Clarksville, TN
• Department:
  Children's Services

Department of Children's Services, Administration Division, Montgomery County

This Administrative Secretary position is part of the DCS Regional Legal Support Staff for the Central Office General Counsel Office, located in Montgomery County. A criminal background check is required.

Education and Experience:

Education equivalent to graduation from a standard high school and experience equivalent to two years of increasingly responsible full-time secretarial or office clerical work.

OR

Qualifying full-time secretarial or office clerical experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis; additional qualifying education at an accredited college, business school or technical institute in secretarial science may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis to a maximum of two years.

Under general supervision, is responsible for secretarial work of average difficulty; and performs related work as required. This is the highest class in the general secretary sub-series. An employee in this class applies secretarial science techniques to assist an executive in the management of time and in the handling of administrative detail. This class differs from Secretary in that an incumbent of the latter performs work of less scope and complexity and has less responsibility for records and reports.

This class differs from those in the Executive Secretary class in that incumbents of the latter have greater responsibility in areas of interpretation and enforcement of secretarial procedures, personal contacts, application of the theory and practice of secretarial science at an advanced level, and performance work of greater scope and complexity.

Competencies:

Knowledge:

• Clerical
• Customer and Personal Service

Skills:

• Active Learning and Listening
• Speaking
• Reading Comprehension
• Service Orientation
• Time Management

Abilities:

• Written Comprehension
• Speech Recognition

• Personal Computer
• Telephone
• Copy Machine
• Scanner
• Calculator

State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:

• A valid driver's license
• For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.

Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.

** Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.