Administrative Services Assistant

Overview

Job Title: Administrative Services Assistant

Location: Blountville, TN (On-Site)

Duration: 6+ Months

Work Schedule: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• Relieve an executive of administrative detail by performing routine through average difficulty professional staff work.
• Routinely acts as liaison between the executive's office and the governor's office, departmental staff, other state departments and agencies, local and federal agencies, and community organizations and groups; attends legislative functions and meetings as required to gain information.
• Routinely handles complaints and requests from members of the legislature and other departments, citizens, and employees, as required.
• Attends receptions, luncheons, dinners, and other gatherings in performing personal contact duties.
• Assigns, trains, supervises, and evaluates assigned clerical and other staff; makes recommendations on personnel actions such as employment, promotion, demotion, transfer, retention, and increases for exceptional performance.
• Handles routine correspondence including composition of replies and routes to the appropriate operating division for reply; prepares non-routine correspondence as requested; assembles information for speeches, staff meetings, and other purposes; may take minutes at staff meetings.
• Makes travel arrangements; keeps expense accounts; orders office supplies as needed.
• Operates standard office machines and equipment as necessary.

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree; qualifying full-time increasingly responsible sub-professional experience or paraprofessional or professional experience may be substituted for the required education, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of four years.