Secretary ; Confidential) Office​/On-site CA-

Introduction

Are you a clerical professional looking to start your career with the State of Connecticut? If so, we invite you to consider the Secretary 2 (Confidential) positions below!

The State of Connecticut
, Department of Labor (DOL) – is currently recruiting for two (2)
Secretary 2 (Confidential) positions located in Wethersfield, CT.

These positions are in our State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.

The State Board of Mediation and Arbitration (SBMA) is a state agency that is empowered under Chapter 560 of the Connecticut General Statutes. The objectives of the Board are to save jobs by maintaining peaceful employer/employee relations, and to promote equity between labor and management by resolving labor disputes. This is accomplished through the mediation and arbitration services available to employers and employee organizations, in the public and private sector.

The goal is to provide efficient, professional and timely mediation services for grievances and contracts in the public and private sector area.

The mediation process helps promote an atmosphere conducive to assisting labor and management in resolving collective bargaining controversies. Understanding that there is a need for labor and management to shift towards cooperation and away from conflict, the Board offers the services of mediation for outreach and education programs in the art of dispute settlement. The Board provides arbitration services for the purpose of arbitration of disputes over the application or interpretation of the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement.

• Location:
  
  Wethersfield, CT
• Full-time | 1 st Shift
• Monday – Friday | 40 hours per week
• Situational telework available

• Grievance Arbitration Cases. The SBMA secretary is responsible for handling the administration of grievance arbitrations, including processing the request, assigning arbitrators to hear the matter, scheduling hearings, corresponding with the arbitrators and the parties, and preparing the hearing rooms. This task also requires processing and distributing the arbitration awards.
• Mediation Cases:
  The SBMA secretary will process and follow up on all requests for mediation for grievance mediation matters. This involves assigning the mediator, assigning case numbers, sending all correspondence confirming mediation requests and assignments, maintaining accurate email addresses as needed for mediators, entering information into the database and routine scheduling.
• Interest Binding Arbitration:
  Binding arbitration is the impasse resolution process for collective bargaining with Labor and Employers. This process is governed by statute and requires attention to detail and timely follow up with the parties. Duties include creation and execution of numerous letters to the parties. This correspondence is time sensitive, requires extensive record keeping and sequential processing of progressive letters relating to the selection of the binding arbitration panel, scheduling of hearings and possible waivers of timelines.
  
  Mediation can also be requested at any time during these procedures, the secretary then processes the mediation request.
• Closing Contract Case Files, Processing Contract Awards:
  All of these areas similarly require attention to detail, the production and processing of multiple types of correspondence, directing parties to complete the necessary forms related to each function, distribute completed materials (Binding Arbitration Awards) to various recipients, adding information to the database and closing the files. The secretary will adhere to a variety of time sensitive schedules for these processes.
• SBMA Phone Coverage and Cross Training:
  Phone coverage is a team activity…