Assistant, Business Services (Hourly)

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural 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:

• 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 populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Assistant, Business Services (Hourly)

Job Description Summary:

Provides clerical and administrative support to a departmental office or program.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Performs office duties in support of faculty, staff, and/or student efforts, including word processing, data entry, maintaining files, processing mail, and duplication.

• Gathers, compiles, and enters data, producing routine reports and documents.

• Produces handouts, fliers, newsletters, brochures, manuals, and other documents.

• Answers the telephone, routes calls, or takes messages; responds to and/or directs inquiries in person or on the telephone.

• May input budget figures, prepares requisitions, logs and tracks expenditures, takes payments, or issues invoices or bills.

• Maintains tracking systems and logs.

• 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 communication skills.

• Effectively using organizational and planning skills.

• Entering data, maintaining files, and performing other clerical duties.

• Effective customer-orientation when working with a multicultural 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.

Physical Requirements

• Work is routinely performed in a standard office or similar environment.

• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, kneeling, pushing, and pulling.

• Occasional lifting of objects up to 20 pounds.

Safety

• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

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