Office Support Coordinator

Maintaining efficiency and economy in operations management requires flexibility in job assignments. While each employee shall have a primary responsibility for the job in which that employee has been hired or later promoted to, each employee may be expected to perform other jobs from time to time.

The Office Support Coordinator is responsible for preparing, copying, binding, and delivering copy jobs. The copying aspect of this position is high volume. The Office Support Coordinator should expect to be copying documents approximately 50% of the time. The Office Support Coordinator also procures office supplies, negotiates prices with third-party vendors, prepares bids, performs administrative tasks and acts as back-up for the MTS receptionist.

• Prepares, copies, binds, and delivers copy jobs with varying degrees of complexity.
• Prepares MTS Board of Directors agenda items for duplication, examines agenda items for accurate information and correct attachments, collates items into packages for mail-outs, and schedules delivery of packages to the MTS Board of Directors.
• Responsible for collecting roll call and serving as additional support staff to customers during Board, Executive, and other meetings as necessary.
• Responsible for ordering office supplies and maintaining inventory of all office supplies, including basic necessities, paper, toner, coffee, desks, chairs and miscellaneous items for all Agency locations.
• Responsible for ordering and maintaining stock of all business cards and nameplates.
• Requests bids for office products and office equipment using MTS procurement best practices and prepares contract documents as necessary.
• Responsible for ordering and stocking kitchens on a regular basis.
• Performs cost/benefit analysis and generates reports of savings for office equipment purchases and negotiates with outside vendors to obtain the highest quality goods and services at the lowest possible price.
• Schedules meetings, checks availability of internal and external parties for proposed meetings, reserves facilities and prepares meeting venues with all necessary equipment and documents.
• Prepares purchase requisitions and monitors the corresponding purchase orders and contracts in SAP.
• Uses and maintains Agency credit card to purchase items for all departments with the ability to track and manage reconciliation for supervisor approval.
• Acts as the main back-up for the MTS Receptionist during breaks, meals, vacations, etc. Weighs and affixes correct postage to outgoing mail and requests local deliveries as necessary.
• Composes, types, edits and proofreads a variety of documents, including but not limited to, correspondence, reports and forms.
• Completes a variety of administrative support tasks for the Human Resources Department, as well as other internal departments, in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with special requests from administrators with the ability to prioritize and organize under pressure.
• Assists and provides relief to 9th floor Receptionists including answering phones, accepting documents, providing receipts and customer care for miscellaneous issues.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge of or ability to learn MTS policies and regulations; ability to read, understand and apply MTS policies, regulations and union labor contracts; ability to write letters, memoranda and reports using clear, concise and grammatically correct English; ability to speak clearly, distinctly and effectively in person-to-person or small group situations using tact and diplomacy; ability to coordinate and initiate actions necessary to implement decisions and delegate responsibilities to appropriate personnel;

ability to establish and maintain priorities in order to complete assignments by deadlines without detailed instructions; skill in verifying the accuracy and completeness of forms and reports; knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel and the ability to learn and use other software that MTS might have or acquire; ability to work independently, using initiative to evaluate and/or analyze existing practices in order to develop new or revised procedures to assist in increasing productivity levels;

ability to troubleshoot software/application issues and office equipment problems/malfunctions.

The successful candidate must be able to fulfill the physical…