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The Town of Indian Head invites applications for the position of part-time administrative assistant. The part-time administrative assistant will be required to work 14 hours per week - 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and will also be asked to fill in when needed to cover sick leave and holidays of other staff within the office.
The Successful applicant's job duties will include the following:
- Processing customer payments and preparing bank deposits
- Filing and other clerical duties
- Answering phones and reception duties as required
- Assisting other departments as required
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Technical Terminology
- Financial
- Business
Specific Skills
- Type and proofread correspondence, forms and other documents
- Sort, process and verify applications, receipts and other documents
- Send and receive messages
- Provide general information to clients and the public
- Prepare equipment or software for type of document
- Prepare and format page presentation
- Perform basic bookkeeping tasks
- Compile data, statistics and other information
- Receive and forward telephone or electronic enquiries
- Maintain and prepare reports from manual or electronic files, inventories, mailing lists and databases
- Process incoming and outgoing mail manually or electronically
- Prepare invoices and bank deposits
- Order supplies and maintain inventory
- Photocopy and collate documents for distribution, mailing and filing
Work Setting
- Public sector
Area Of Specialization
- Invoices
- Financial statements
- Correspondence
- Contracts
- Charts, tables, graphs and diagrams
- Reports
- Forms and records
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Sitting for extended periods
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
Keyboarding (Words Per Minute)
- 0 - 40 wpm
Business Equipment and Computer Applications
- Windows
- Word processing software
- MS Word
- Electronic mail
- Accounting software