Front Desk Clerk, Part-Time | Community Development

City of Chattanooga•Chattanooga, TN

7d•$16 - $20•Onsite

About The Position

The City of Chattanooga is seeking a Part-Time Front Desk Clerk to join the Community Development department. This role involves performing various routine clerical duties, responding to public inquiries, managing office supplies, and potentially assisting with administrative support. The position requires meeting attendance requirements, maintaining good interpersonal relationships, and performing essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations.

Requirements

High School Diploma or G.E.D. and six months related office support experience, or any combination of equivalent experience and education/training sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Knowledge of customer service principles; modern office procedures, methods, and equipment; and, filing principles and practices.
Skill in using computers and related software applications; providing customer service; filing; keyboarding; using modern office equipment; maintaining records and files; and, communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.

Responsibilities

Performs various routine clerical duties utilizing standard office procedures and equipment: including screening incoming calls, taking and transmitting messages, maintaining calendars, keyboarding information into applicable databases and/or other computerized systems to collect and maintain records and information in assigned area of responsibilities, making photocopies, performing data entry, faxing documents, typing/word processing, managing inventory/supplies, and meeting and greeting the general public.
Responds to requests for information from the general public, answers routine questions, and directs callers to appropriate internal departments and/or external organizations.
Files documents alphabetically, numerically or by other prescribed methods.
Receives, sorts, files and/or distributes a variety of correspondence, reservations, invoices, fees, work orders, reports, service requests, materials, deliveries, mail and/or other applicable items.
Monitors and restocks office supplies and materials; initiates the replenishment of applicable inventory and supplies.
May assist as a primary backup for the Administrative Support Assistant.
Must meet regular attendance requirements.
Must be able to maintain good interpersonal relationships with staff, co-workers, managers and citizens.
Must accomplish the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations, in a timely manner.
Performs other duties as assigned.