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Permanent Part-Time Administrative Assistant for the Rural Municipality of Laurier No. 38.
The successful applicant must be bondable, able to work independently, and be a proven team player.
Required Skills:
good knowledge of general office practices,
strong accounting background,
excellent communication and organizational skills,
ability to adapt to new technologies,
knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook software programs,
knowledge of Sage Accounting program.
Duties will include:
reception, general office duties, accounting,
understanding and working with municipal policies;
Providing support services to the Administrator, Council, Ratepayers, & Staff.
Hours
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Technical Terminology
- Legal
- 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
- 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
- Charts, tables, graphs and diagrams
- Reports
- Forms and records
Work Location Information
- Rural community
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Sitting for extended periods
Security and Safety
- Bondable
Keyboarding (Words Per Minute)
- 81 - 100 wpm
Business Equipment and Computer Applications
- Windows
- Word processing software
- WordPerfect
- Spreadsheet software
- Quattro Pro
- MS Word
- Excel
- Electronic mail
- Electronic scheduler
- Database software
- General office equipment
- Accounting software
- Internet browser
- Simply Accounting