ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES ASSISTANT
Location:
Davidson County
Last Day to Apply:
May 13 , 2024
Business Unit:
Exempt Admin Professional
Job Family:
Human Services
Job Opening ID:
57265
Job Information
State of Tennessee Job Information
Opening Date/Time 04/26/2024 12:00AM Central Time
Closing Date/Time 05/13/2024 11:59PM Central Time
Salary (Monthly) $3,542.00 – $4,425.00
Salary (Annually) $42,504.00 – $53,100.00
Job Type Full-Time
City, State Location Nashville, TN
Department Human Services
LOCATION OF (2) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, REHABILITATION SERVICES DIVISION, DAVIDSON COUNTY
This is a hybrid position.
Qualifications
Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelors degree AND experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional staff administrative and/or analytic experience. Substitution of Experience for Education: Qualifying full-time increasingly responsible sub professional, para-professional, or professional experience may be substituted for the required education, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of four years. Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional graduate coursework in public administration, business administration, or other acceptable field may be substituted for the required experience, on a year-for-year basis. OR One year of professional administrative services experience with the State of Tennessee.
Necessary Special Qualifications:
Positions within the Department of Human Services may be required to:
- Complete a criminal history disclosure form in a manner approved by the appointing authority
- Agree to release all records involving their criminal history to the appointing authority
- Supply a fingerprint sample prescribed by the TBI based criminal history records check
- Submit to a review of their status on the Department of Health¿s vulnerable persons registry.
Positions within the Disability Determinations Section of the Division of Rehabilitation Services within the Department of Human Services will be required to complete a federal background check in accordance with the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) for issuance of an HSPD-12 compliant Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential card.
Summary
Distinguishing Features: This is the working level class in the Admin Services Assistant sub-series. An employee in this class performs general staff work in the area of administrative services and support of line operations. Work includes a variety of assignments such as: budget development and maintenance contract negotiation, development and monitoring personnel administration research planning information compilation and dissemination procurement and property administration grant proposal review and monitoring forms design and report and correspondence preparation. This class differs from that of Admin Services Assistant 1 in that incumbents of the latter function in an entry level capacity under immediate supervision. This class differs from that of Admin Services Assistant 3 in that incumbents of the latter perform work of greater scope and complexity and have more responsibilities for developing, implementing, and enforcing policies and procedures and often supervise incumbents in this class. This class differs from that of more specialized classes that perform administrative-related services and analytic duties in that incumbents of the latter perform these duties within a specific, limited field and function as analytic specialists rather than generalists.
Responsibilities
- May make recommendations on staff employment, retention, promotion, demotion, and other human resources actions.
- Reviews operating budgets to determine the agencys budgetary needs.
- Prepares budgets for the agency.
- Conducts grant administration and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
- Monitors the agencys purchase orders to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
- Maintains appropriate records of agency inventory and property.
- Serves as a liaison between the agency and the general public, persons in other state departments and divisions, officials, and entities outside the organization in order to explain matters of procedure and regulation.
- Prepares and edits organizational publications for a variety of audiences.
- Utilizes appropriate computer programs to accomplish administrative activities.
- Coordinates the preparation of routine records and reports to ensure compliance with agency standards.
- May train less experienced staff.
- May write job plans to ensure performance objectives are established.
- May conduct performance evaluations to provide feedback on employee performance.
- May supervise sub-professional staff.
- Performs human resources administration in one or more of the following areas: employee relations, affirmative action, recruitment, employee development, and training.
- May act as the Administrative Services Officer for a small agency, division, or comparable unit.
- Plans programs to meet agency objectives.
- Performs a variety of general staff administrative duties to support program operations.
- Conducts space planning and facility management to ensure environment, health, and safety standards are met.
- Coordinates printing services for the agency.
- Interprets and enforces existing policies and methods.
- Analyzes pertinent policies and procedures to make recommendations for improvements.
- Analyzes the organization, economy, efficiency, and quality of agency operations and services to make recommendations for improvements.
- Prepares records and reports to meet agency needs.
- Reviews records and reports in order to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to standards.
- Maintains agency records based on established guidelines.
- Communicates project status or other relevant information to supervisors on a regular basis.
- Conducts research in one or more of the following areas to obtain relevant information: fiscal, economic, non-technical legal, legislative, and publications.
- May make work assignments to staff in order to achieve agency objectives.
Competencies
Competencies:
- Written Communications
- Learning on the Fly
- Time Management
- Action Oriented
- Business Acumen
- Creativity
- Customer Focus
- Decision Quality
- Technical Learning
- Self-Knowledge
Knowledge:
- Administrative and Management
- Computers and Electronics
- Economics and Accounting
- Mathematics
- Principles and Methods for Education and Training
- Principles and Procedures of Human Resources
- Providing Customer Service
Skills:
- Active Learning and Listening
- Coordination of Administrative Activities
- Critical Thinking
- Equipment Maintenance
- Instructing
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Management of Financial Resources
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Mathematic
- Monitoring
- Negotiation
- Reading Comprehension
- Service Orientation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Speaking
- Time Management
- Troubleshooting
- Writing
Abilities:
- Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
- Oral Expression and Comprehension
- Problem Sensitivity
- Selective Attention
- Time Sharing
- Written Expression and Comprehension
Tools & Equipment
- Personal Computer
- Telephone
- Microfiche
- Microfilm
- Fax Machine
- Printer
- Scanner
- Copy Machine
- Calculator
- Retail Sales Equipment
Other Office Related Equipment as Required
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