Secretary V

Oklahoma State Government • Oklahoma City, OK

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Positions in this job family are assigned responsibilities for performing confidential secretarial duties for an agency official or administrator.

Requirements

• Six years of clerical office work, including three years as an office manager, executive assistant or as a confidential secretary, or an equivalent combination of education including three years as an office manager, executive assistant or as a confidential secretary experience.
• Knowledge of the procedures and techniques of business communications; of spelling, punctuation, and business English; of office methods; of computer operations; of business arithmetic; of public relations; and of supervisory principles and practices.
• Skill is required to type accurately from a plain copy at a rate of fifty words per minute.
• Ability is required to handle confidential work with tact and discretion; to exercise judgment in interpreting and applying rules or policy; to establish and maintain working relationships with others; and to provide direction to other technical/clerical employees.

Responsibilities

• Opens, scans or reads and distributes mail; composes official correspondence for supervisor’s signature, disposes of routine correspondence.
• Screens telephone calls; provides information or refers callers to appropriate staff members; answers inquiries.
• Receives visitors; answers inquiries personally or refers to appropriate official.
• Arranges for special conferences and meetings; maintains supervisor’s calendar, advising of commitments; arranges for travel itinerary and accommodations; prepares and submits travel claims and expense account.
• Independently researches, assembles and summarizes material, information and data for administrative board or commission consideration and action; takes and transcribes dictation of confidential, technical or legal material requiring a high degree of accuracy; records and transcribes proceedings of meetings and conferences.
• Appears before legislative committee hearings either alone or in the company of supervisor to present facts relative to agency programs, mission and/or budget; drafts proposed legislation; proposes budget items; confers with administrators on matters of staffing, budget and purchasing and contracts and/or policy.
• Supervises administrative or clerical assistants.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed