Administrative Coordinator

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Job Description

Our mission is to promote adequate and affordable housing, economic opportunity, and a suitable living environment free from discrimination. Provide descent, safe, and sanitary housing and "Providing A Foundation For A Better Tomorrow". Key competencies to succeed include accepting direction, demonstrating accountability, following policies and procedures, acting with ethics and integrity, adapting to change, communicating effectively, demonstrating initiative, displaying professionalism, focusing on customers, and learning actively.

One year of experience in administrative services. Experience substitution:
Every 15 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will substitute for six months of the required experience.

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.

Job duties include processing routine paperwork and entering data into departmental logs and databases while servicing clients, greeting the public in a professional and friendly manner, answering telephone calls using proper etiquette, directing calls appropriately, and providing accurate information. Minor accounting tasks, processing housing applications and assisting residents with required documentation, utilizing computer systems for data entry, record maintenance, and credit reporting, maintaining the department's records management system, serving as clerical assistant to management, including maintaining appointment schedules, issuing directives on behalf of the manager, and handling administrative matters, performing receptionist duties for the assigned work unit, and performing related duties as assigned.

Position-specific details include an appointment type of probational up to 24 months, no participation in a career progression group, and compensation determined based on qualifications and experience.

Louisiana State Government offers competitive pay, a variety of benefits, and access to a professional development program. Benefits include insurance coverage, parental leave up to six weeks, paid holidays including New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Mardi Gras, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day, sick and annual leave, and various retirement systems including the Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana, and Louisiana School Employees Retirement System.