Administrative Secretary (Sheriff's Office)

High school diploma or GED. Three years of secretarial or related word processing experience are required.

This is advanced responsible secretarial and related clerical work for a division head or an exempt executive official in the County service.

Employees in this class perform a variety of complex secretarial and clerical duties for division directors or other comparable executive officials within the County organization. Emphasis of the work is on the performance of advanced secretarial duties requiring considerable knowledge of the executive's responsibilities and an understanding of the policies, programs, procedures and regulations in effect in the area of assignment. Duties typically include arranging for and attending conferences, independently answering inquiries where there is established policy or precedent action, taking and transcribing dictation, composing and typing correspondence and performing research to compile data for special reports and other purposes. Incumbents utilize a variety of office skills and considerable judgment in relieving the executive of administrative details. Supervision may be exercised over subordinate clerical employees through assignment of tasks and review of completed work for accomplishment of desired objectives. General supervision is received from a division director or an executive official who reviews work for satisfactory performance of executive secretarial duties and for attainment of desired goals and objectives.