Clerk Secretary

Position: CLERK SECRETARY
## CLERK SECRETARYApplylocations:
Wakefieldtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todaytime left to apply:
End Date:
June 28, 2026 (9 days left to apply) job requisition :
JR103116#
** Department
* * Department of Children, Youth, and Families#
** Division
* * Social/Human Services#
** Salary**$50,545.00 - $55,928.00#
** Job Profile
** JC-- Clerk Secretary (C94 L2876 DOA IT DCYF)#
** Scheduled Work Days & Work Hours
** Monday - Friday; 8:30am - 4:00pm.
** Standard 35.0
**** This position is located in the Division of Family Services, Region III (Wakefield).**#
** Job

Requisition Number
** JR103116 CLERK SECRETARY (Open)#
** Pay Grade
** C00B16 A#
** Classification
* * Clerk Secretary#
** Class Definition
**** GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:
** 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 formulating new methods or procedures; initiating and receiving personal and telephone contacts with the responsibility of making appointments, answering requests for administrative information, interviewing callers and referring them through the proper channels and conferring with other employees in the department or agency to solve problems relating to coordination of work and other matters in order to relieve the administrative official of as much detail as possible;

and maintaining confidential departmental or agency files.
* To perform complex word processing and data entry functions utilizing sophisticated word processing software programs including but not limited to, Excel, Access, and other advanced word processing programs and data entry methods and procedures.
* To generate reports, documents, letters and other materials using appropriate software applications.
* To organize data and formulate methods for data presentation based upon needs and requirements.
* As required, to supervise and review the work of a small clerical staff or act in an advisory or consulting capacity to this staff.
* To perform other routine clerical tasks incidental to the work of the office.
* To do related work as required.
** REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT:
**** KNOWLEDGES, SKILLS AND CAPACITIES:
** 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 to 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.
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* EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

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* Education:

** Such as may have been gained through: graduation from a senior high school, including or supplemented by courses…