City of North Platte Hiring for Secretary II at North Platte, NE Full Time

Job Description:

Under direction, performs a wide variety of clerical and typing work; assists in a department procedure including keeping financial, secretarial, and administrative records; takes varied dictation; may take and transcribe minutes.

Job Duties:

• Perform a broad spectrum of secretarial and technical duties for head of the department; composes and types correspondence using Windows-based computer applications.
• Take oral dictation and transcribes from dictation or from a recording; types and composes memoranda, newsletters, letters, and reports; takes and transcribes minutes of board and related groups.
• Prepare reports by finding, assembling and summarizing information and data; establishes and maintains files and systems.
• Keep various financial or statistical records requiring balancing and adjusting accounts.
• Operate a variety of office and computer equipment including Window-based applications and applications specific to the department; maybe responsible for petty cash; prepares claims for approval.
• Perform other work which is consistent with the essential elements of the job.
• Operate office appliances which require no special training or for which skills maybe required on the job.

Abilities and Skills:

• Knowledge of office procedures, practices and equipment and department functions.
• Knowledge of the organization and functions.
• Knowledge of English, spelling and ability to post and make arithmetical computations rapidly and accurately.
• Ability to perform a variety of clerical tasks.
• Ability to meet the public courteously and to obtain and give information.

Experience and Training:

• Any combination of experience and training equivalent to graduation from high school, including or supplemented by courses in business, shorthand and typing, and/or two years of related experience involving public contact. Demonstrable competency in using the latest Microsoft Office.

Hours/Days: 25 hours/week.

**May require nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $17.68 – $24.44 per hour

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work Location: One location