Administrative Services Assistant

Job Information

• Opening Date/Time: 01/05/2026 12:00AM Central Time
• Closing Date/Time: 01/11/2026 11:59PM Central Time
• Salary (Monthly): $3,631.00 - $4,533.00
• Salary (Annually): $43,572.00 - $54,396.00
• Job Type: Full-Time
• City, State
  
  Location:
  
  Knoxville, TN
• Department:
  Safety and Homeland Security

Position(s) to be filled:
Department of Safety & Homeland Security, Highway Patrol Division, Knox County

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This position is designed as Hybrid (In office and Remote).

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional staff administrative and/or analytic experience.

Substitution of Experience for

Education:

Qualifying full-time increasingly responsible sub professional, para-professional, or professional experience may be substituted for the required education, on a year-for-year basis, up to a maximum of four years.

Substitution of Education for

Experience:

Additional graduate coursework in public administration, business administration, or other acceptable field may be substituted for the required experience, on a year-for-year basis.

OR

One year of professional administrative services experience with the State of Tennessee.

Under general supervision, the incumbent is responsible for staff administrative work of average difficulty in support of line operations; and performs related work as required. This is the working level in the Admin Services Assistant sub-series and work includes a variety of assignments such as budget development and maintenance; contract development and monitoring; personnel administration; research; planning; information compilation and dissemination;

procurement and property administration; grant proposal review and monitoring; forms design; and report and correspondence preparation. This class differs from that of Admin Services Assistant 1 in that incumbents of the latter function in an entry level capacity under immediate supervision. This class differs from that of Admin Services Assistant 3 in that incumbents of the latter perform work of greater scope and complexity and have more responsibilities for developing, implementing, and enforcing policies and procedures and often supervise incumbents in this class.

Competencies:

Knowledge:

Skills:

Abilities:

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.