SENIOR TYPIST
(Pupil Personnel Services)
(Full-time, 12 month position)
The Senior Typist is responsible for the accurate performance of a wide variety of increasingly difficult clerical duties that require excellent organizational, communication, and computer skills including, but not limited to:
- Performs clerical support functions, including keyboarding, reception, record maintenance, and database management;
- Prepares reports;
- Takes inventory counts of records, books, and office supplies; may order supplies for unit or agency;
- Obtains information and data, collects and summarizes, furnishes and transmits to other units/departments, agencies, vendors, and the general public as necessary;
- Processes records, including such activities as checking for compliance with accepted procedures, transposing or disseminating information, logging records or coordinating the scheduling of appointments;
- Directs telephone and in-person callers and provides routine information and assistance;
- Work is generally performed under direct supervision, with supervision decreasing as job familiarity increases.
Full Performance Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of office practices necessary for interacting with staff and the public, expediting unit work, filing and retrieving information;
- Knowledge of software packages for word processing to produce a variety of information and for database management, spreadsheets and to track information;
- Knowledge of grammar, spelling, punctuation and required formats necessary to recognize and correct such errors in correspondence, reports and records;
- Knowledge of arithmetic to verify calculations and report on work activities;
- Skill in operating office automation equipment to produce work accurately and efficiently;
- Ability to operate a keyboard at not less than 35 words per minute;
- Ability to organize, maintain, and extrapolate information from records;
- Ability to maintain satisfactory working relationships with others, including the public;
- Ability to understand and follow oral and written directions;
- Personal characteristics necessary to perform the duties of the position;
- Physical condition commensurate with the demands of the position.
Special Requirement:
Candidates must indicate keyboarding ability; i.e., courses in keyboarding or keyboarding work experience.
Qualifications: Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma AND either:
- Completion of one year of college, business school, or secretarial school; OR
- One year of full-time clerical work experience that included the performance of skilled keyboarding duties; OR
- An equivalent combination of training and experience as indicated in (A) and (B).
Civil Service Eligibility Required