Description

Salary Range:

Examples of Duties

• Receives telephone calls and personal callers and determines the identity and nature of the call; determines which calls and callers must be directed to the official served, can be referred elsewhere or handled personally; tactfully holds calls and personal callers to brief the official served on the background and obtain required information;
• Makes all arrangements for conferences including informing participants of topics to be discussed and providing background information, attending and taking notes, preparing summary accounts with emphasis on commitments made and developments of concern to the official served and his/her other staff, and duplicating and distributing handout material and summaries of the meeting;
• Receives incoming mail, maintains control records on incoming correspondence and action documents, and follows up on work in process to insure timely reply or action;
• Reads outgoing correspondence for procedural and grammatical accuracy, conformance with general policy, factual correctness and adequacy of treatment, and calls any deviations or inadequacies to the attention of the writer or more rarely to the official served;
• Keeps the calendar of the official served and schedules appointments and conferences without prior clearance, seeing that the official served is fully briefed on the matters to be considered before the scheduled meetings;
• Drafts letters of acknowledgement, commendation, notification, etc., on own initiative;
• Interviews and makes selection of stenographic and other clerical employees in the immediate office, makes assignments, schedules relief and lunch hour coverage, arranges overtime work as necessary, etc.;
• Insures that official, social obligations are met such as arranging luncheons, issuing invitations or notices, arranging seating, assuring invitation and presence of guest speakers, etc.;
• Obtains specialized information for the official served from technical sources outside the agency or from diverse or numerous documents and organizes the material so as to facilitate focus on most important parts;
• Observes need for administrative or procedural notices and instructions, prepares drafts of necessary issuances, and distributes and explains notices and instructions to appropriate staff;
• Devises and installs office procedures;
• May operate a typewriter, word processor or personal computer to type correspondence, reports and other materials;
• May take and transcribe dictation by shorthand, speedwriting or stenotype of correspondence, reports and other materials.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduation from high school with courses in basic English and arithmetic may be substituted for the required six months of General Experience.
• Successful completion of a substantially full-time equivalent clerical, stenographic or secretarial curriculum leading to a degree or diploma at an accredited community college, business or technical school which included courses in business English, arithmetic, office clerical procedures and office machines may be substituted for one year of Specialized Clerical Experience.
• Partial completion of a substantially full-time equivalent clerical, stenographic or secretarial curriculum at an accredited community college, business or technical school which included courses in business English, arithmetic, office clerical procedures and office machines may be substituted for the Specialized Clerical Experience on a month-for-month basis.
• Education in an accredited university in a baccalaureate program may be substituted for the Secretarial Experience, on the basis of fifteen semester hours for six months of experience, up to a maximum of one year provided it included at least two or more of the following types of courses: human relations in business, business correspondence or communications, principles of management, personnel management relations, office management, business administration, etc.

Supplemental Information

Salary: The advertised salary is based on full-time employment and includes shortage and school year differentials, if applicable.

Requirements: Applicants must meet all the requirements for the position they are seeking as of the date of the application, unless otherwise specified. Unless specifically indicated, the required education and experience may not be gained concurrently. Calculation of experience is based on full-time, 40-hour workweeks. Part-time experience is pro-rated. Example: Twelve months of experience at 20 hours/week is equivalent to six months of experience, not one year. Also, hours worked in excess of 40 hours/week will not be credited. Example: Twelve months of experience at 60 hours/week is equivalent to one year of experience, not one and a half years.

Temporary Assignment: Claims of Temporary Assignment (TA) experience to meet the minimum qualification requirements must be verified and attached to the application using one of the options below:

• A copy of the applicant’s TA History Report or equivalent system-generated report;
• A signed letter from the applicant’s supervisor that includes the applicant’s name, his/her TA job title, the TA start and end dates (from mm/yy to mm/yy), his/her specific TA duties performed, and either the TA hours worked per week or total TA hours worked; or,
• Copies of the applicant’s signed SF-10 Forms.

Equal Opportunity

The Hawaii State Department of Education does not discriminate in its educational policies, programs, and activities on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, and disability in accordance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991. The Department does not discriminate in its employment policies, programs, and activities on the basis of sexual orientation, arrest and court record, and National Guard participation, as well as on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, and disability, in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991, Equal Pay Act of 1963, and Chapter 378, Part I, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Payday

New employees can expect their first paycheck within the first 3 pay periods of their start date. Payday is on the 5th and 20th (or previous business day) of every month.