Office Services Clerk

State of Maryland•Somerset, MD

16h•Onsite

About The Position

This is a position-specific recruitment for the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, Real Property Division, Somerset County Assessments Office. The role involves performing various clerical functions in an assessment office, including reviewing, verifying, and interpreting information to determine and resolve problems. The position is mission essential and mission critical.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.
One year of experience performing clerical duties.

Nice To Haves

Candidates may substitute 30 credit hours of education at an accredited college or university for one year of the required experience.
Six months clerical training with three courses in subjects such as keyboarding, clerical math, word processing, spreadsheets, database, graphics presentation, proofreading, or office etiquette may be substituted for six months of the required experience.
Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a non-commissioned officer in Administrative classifications or in Administrative, Clerical, or Office Services specialty codes in the Clerical Support field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

Responsibilities

Perform various clerical functions in an assessment office.
Review, verify, and interpret information for determining and resolving problems.
Interact with the general public in person and by phone to respond to issues related to the assessment process, property values, general office procedures, personal property, and homeowner's tax credit.
Input a variety of data to the mainframe to update and maintain real property files.
Determine if input data is correct in accordance with policies and procedures before entering it.
Create new accounts, determine if legal descriptions are correct, and adjust parent accounts to reflect new legal descriptions for split transfers, combination of accounts, and plats by following established office procedures.
Type and send a variety of forms, letters, and reports in accordance with established office procedures.
Review, verify, interpret, and receive deeds and legal documents for changes of ownership and property description.
Determine from deeds whether the correct property is being transferred by matching the legal description on the mainframe with the legal description in the deed.
Determine from the deed if the transfer is a whole transfer or a split account.
File various materials to organize and retain assessment documents in accordance with established office procedures.
Perform other duties as may be required.

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental
Vision plans offered at a low cost
Six (6) personnel days annually (prorated based on start date)
Ten (10) days of accumulated annual leave per year
Fifteen (15) days of accumulated sick leave per year
Up to sixty (60) days of paid parental leave upon the birth or adoption of a child
At least twelve (12) holidays per year
State employees earn credit towards a retirement pension
Eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
Permanent State employees are entitled to use the Baltimore Light Rail, the Baltimore Metro Subway, the Baltimore Bus Service