TCEQ - Executive Assistant II

Are you an experienced Executive Assistant, ready for a unique opportunity to grow with an environmental state agency? Join TCEQ! We bring passion and drive to carry out our mission of protecting our state's public health and natural resources.

Note:

To determine qualifications, TCEQ job postings require fully completed applications with a detailed job history. Incomplete applications may lead to disqualification. See below for more details.

As part of TCEQ Compliance and Enforcement, you would help ensure that those we regulate comply with the state's environmental laws. See details about what we do. This position is a member of our Lubbock Regional Office.

• Coordinate and monitor the administrative functions of the regional office to include work related to human resources, budget, purchasing, property management, payroll, timekeeping, and travel authorizations/vouchers.
• Assist the Regional Director with day-to-day administration; make administrative decisions and ensure completion of work assigned to administrative staff to include providing telephone coverage, maintaining filing systems, meeting schedules, tracking projects, providing weekly and monthly reports, special budget reports, and correspondence.
• Assist the Regional Director and Section Manager with reviewing and solving work problems in compliance with state/agency policies and regulations.
• Advise staff of administrative matters through analysis of selected subjects, policies, plans, programs, and requirements.

• Experience with budgeting, purchasing, and asset management.
• Experience providing administrative support for an executive manager/director and/or professional staff.
• Experience using Word, Excel.
• Experience drafting, formatting, editing and preparing correspondence and/or reports.

A Bachelor's Degree and two years of full-time experience working in an office environment.

OR

Three years of full-time experience performing supervisory, managerial, professional or technical work which must include: analysis of work problems having an administrative aspect and interpretation of complex written material; or planning, organizing, and coordinating requirements for support services or program operations where a wide range of demands are involved, including interpretation of complex written material.

OR

Graduation from a standard senior high school or its equivalent plus seven years of full-time experience in an administrative capacity*.

Fifteen semester hours from an accredited college or university may be substituted for each six months of the required experience with a maximum substitution of four years.

Employees in this classification series may research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure, including but not limited to a communication infrastructure system, cybersecurity system, electric grid, hazardous waste treatment system, or water treatment facility. See Tex. Business & Commerce Code Section 117.001(2). Accordingly, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a requirement to be hired for and to continue to be employed with TCEQ.

Standard business hours are M-F, 8:00 a.m.

- 5:00 p.m.

Individual and work group schedule determined by the TCEQ Lubbock Regional Office.

• Optional 401(k) and 457 plans
• Insurance:
  Health, Vision, Dental, and optional FSA
• Paid day(s) off from work on national holidays and holidays that the state observes
• Professional development opportunities
• Longevity pay based on your number of years working for the state
• Wellness Program and Activities
• Onsite Nurse Practitioner in HQ
• Work-Life Balance

TCEQ will conduct a criminal history records search, driving history (if required for the job) on candidates offered employment.

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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is an Equal Opportunity Employer.