Administrative Assistant II

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Reflects the diversity of our community

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Administrative Assistant II

Job Description Summary:

To provide clerical and administrative support.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1) Performs office duties in support of faculty, staff, and/or student efforts, including word processing, data entry, maintaining files, processing mail, and duplication.
2) Gathers, compiles, and enters data, producing routine reports and documents.
3) Produces handouts, fliers, newsletters, brochures, manuals, and other documents.
4) Answers the telephone, routes calls, or takes messages; responds to and/or directs inquiries in person or on the telephone.
5) May input budget figures, prepares requisitions, logs and tracks expenditures, takes payments, or issues invoices or bills.
6) Maintains tracking systems and logs.
7) Operates office equipment such as copiers and fax machines.

Knowledge

* Office procedures and practices.
* Customer service techniques.

Skills
* Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
* Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
* Maintaining an established work schedule.
* Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills.
* Effectively using organizational and planning skills.
* Entering data, maintaining files, and performing other clerical duties.
* Effective customer-orientation when working with a diverse population.

Technology Skills
* Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
* May also use social media, work with desktop publishing, and update webpages.

Required Work Experience
* One year related work experience.

Required Education
* High school diploma or educational equivalent.

Physical Requirements
* Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
* Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
* Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Salary

$45,760

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

December 15, 2023

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