PT Administrative Assistant, Health, Wellness, and Human Services

Johnston Community College•Main Campus - Smithfield, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides office services by implementing administrative systems, procedures, and policies, and monitoring administrative projects. Serves as the assistant to the department faculty and staff. Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories and trains departmental personnel. Provides training and assistance to faculty (full time and part time) on college systems, academic procedures and administrative tasks. Manages a multi-line telephone system including answering, screening and taking messages. Using appropriate software, develops, transcribes, assembles and disseminates information. Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, recordkeeping systems, forms control, office layout, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing changes as appropriate. Maintains a complex filing system. Processes confidential information. Creates and tracks purchase requisitions or purchase orders. Maintains supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies. Answers questions and gives information about well-defined, but complex, administrative, programmatic or personnel areas. Monitor and reconciles budget and expense statements with departmental accounts. Edits, proofs and compiles course documents and departmental reports. Schedules meetings, appointments, conferences and travel and maintains the schedule of protected room assignments in the department. Supervises student or temporary employees. Serves as the primary point of contact for internal services and external vendors. Answers student inquiries about academic department policies and procedures and program/course/curriculum information. Prepares payroll time sheets on departmental employees and ensures contract submission. Follow up with faculty to ensure timely and accurate submission of grades and academic reports. Serves on various institutional committees. Orders desk copies of textbooks and ensures timely submission of book adoptions. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Associate's degree with course work emphasis in business or office administration
One to three years’ experience in an administrative office environment
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence.
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Publisher.

Responsibilities

Serves as the assistant to the department faculty and staff.
Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories and trains departmental personnel.
Provides training and assistance to faculty (full time and part time) on college systems, academic procedures and administrative tasks.
Manages a multi-line telephone system including answering, screening and taking messages.
Using appropriate software, develops, transcribes, assembles and disseminates information.
Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, recordkeeping systems, forms control, office layout, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing changes as appropriate.
Maintains a complex filing system.
Processes confidential information.
Creates and tracks purchase requisitions or purchase orders.
Maintains supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies.
Answers questions and gives information about well-defined, but complex, administrative, programmatic or personnel areas.
Monitor and reconciles budget and expense statements with departmental accounts.
Edits, proofs and compiles course documents and departmental reports.
Schedules meetings, appointments, conferences and travel and maintains the schedule of protected room assignments in the department.
Supervises student or temporary employees.
Serves as the primary point of contact for internal services and external vendors.
Answers student inquiries about academic department policies and procedures and program/course/curriculum information.
Prepares payroll time sheets on departmental employees and ensures contract submission.
Follow up with faculty to ensure timely and accurate submission of grades and academic reports.
Serves on various institutional committees.
Orders desk copies of textbooks and ensures timely submission of book adoptions.
Performs other duties as assigned.