Field Investigator; on-call Chisago​/Isanti County, MN

RIVERSIDE COUNTY: BEYOND YOUR EXPECTATIONS

Would you like to make a difference in your community? Would you like to see poverty end? Then look no further. You are invited to join the winning team at Community Action Partnership of Riverside County and work toward the goal of ending poverty.

Community Action Partnership (CAP) of Riverside County is seeking to immediately fill an Executive Assistant I position that will provide secretarial support to the Executive Director and the CAP Commission.

• Research, compile, and summarize information, data and statistics for regular and specialized reports.
• Prepare correspondence and reports independently; develop itineraries, coordinate meetings and participants’ schedules, and maintain the manager’s calendar.
• Make travel arrangements for the manager and staff, and sort, screen, prioritize, and route incoming mail.
• Screen telephone calls and visitors, directing them to the appropriate parties; answer questions and assist staff and the public obtain information about agency and departmental policies and procedures.
• Establish, maintain, and direct the preservation of a variety of complex and/or confidential records; distribute agency and departmental procedures and rules; prepare, recommend, and establish office standards and procedures.
• Prioritize correspondence along with appropriate background materials for the manager’s review, reply and disposition.
• Serve as liaison between the manager and subordinates, other managers, county agencies, departmental staff, other governmental agencies, and the public.
• Take and transcribe dictation directly, or from notes or recordings.
• May supervise a clerical staff; review outgoing correspondence, reports, and material for accuracy, grammar, and consistency with administrative policy.

Knowledge and skills required:

• Taking and transcribing minutes and dictation.
• Oasis Peoplesoft – Payroll experience.
• Supervisory skills.
• Collaboration with the general public and government officials.
• Organizational operations sufficient to analyze, evaluate, and develop procedures and methods affecting the commitment of agency/departmental resources and administrative and clerical operations of a managerial office.
• Current office methods and practices including automated equipment, filing systems, business correspondence, receptionist techniques, and report writing.
• Correct English usage, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation.

Experience:

• One year as a Secretary I or II with the County of Riverside.
• OR
• Three years of clerical experience, one year of which must have been in an administrative support and/or secretarial capacity with responsibilities for screening calls, maintaining an appointment calendar, composing correspondence, and researching, compiling, and preparing reports.
• Completion of 18 semester or 27 quarter units from a recognized college or 360 hours of training from a recognized occupational training program in secretarial sciences, office practices, business education or a closely related field may be substituted for up to one year of the general clerical experience.

Submit a detailed resume and cover letter reflecting how your education and experience meets or exceeds the position qualifications directly to Mandy Singh at . Resumes must be received no later than 5:00 p.m., Monday, December 8, 2008.

Please note that the apply on-line option is not available for this recruitment.