What are the responsibilities and job description for the Account Clerk-Keyboard Specialist position at Schuyler County New York?
VACANCY: At the present time, there is one full time, 35 hour per week, provisional opening in the Schuyler County Public Health. The individual hired will need to take a Civil Service test at a later date, and be reachable on the list to gain permanency in the position.
HOW TO APPLY:
Applicants must submit a Civil Service “Application for Employment and/or Examination” to Schuyler County Civil Service office. Applications WILL be accepted via email or fax. You may include a resume with your application; however, you may NOT substitute “See Resume” for completing any portion of the application form. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL BE DISAPPROVED.
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT:
Candidates must have been legal residents of Schuyler or a contiguous (Chemung, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins and Yates) county for at least one month immediately preceding the date of the application. Preference in appointment may be given to a resident of the jurisdiction for which there is a vacancy.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
HOW TO APPLY:
Applicants must submit a Civil Service “Application for Employment and/or Examination” to Schuyler County Civil Service office. Applications WILL be accepted via email or fax. You may include a resume with your application; however, you may NOT substitute “See Resume” for completing any portion of the application form. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL BE DISAPPROVED.
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT:
Candidates must have been legal residents of Schuyler or a contiguous (Chemung, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins and Yates) county for at least one month immediately preceding the date of the application. Preference in appointment may be given to a resident of the jurisdiction for which there is a vacancy.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
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Graduation from high school or possession of an equivalency diploma, and either:
- Successful completion of a high school accounting course and a keyboarding or word processing course; or
- Six credit hours of coursework in accounting at a regionally accredited college or university, or one accredited by the New York State Board of Regents to grant degrees and either a course in keyboarding/word processing or one year of clerical experience that involved typing or word processing; or
- One year of experience maintaining financial accounts and records which included typing or word processing.
Note: Please submit proof of coursework if you qualify under A or B above. If using work experience to qualify, please describe fully on application. Clerical experience is defined as activities involving the performance of routine office tasks, such as keeping of records & accounts, correspondence, recording/entering & retrieving data and/or information or i.e. filing, answering phones, typing correspondence, and using modern computer software.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE CLASS: The work involves responsibility for the performance of standard account-keeping procedures in maintaining and checking financial accounts and records. The incumbent will be responsible for entering and retrieving information from a computer database/spreadsheet using software. Routine assignments are done under supervision in accordance with defined procedures; detailed instructions are provided for new or unusual assignments. This class differs from Senior Account Clerk-Keyboard Specialist by virtue of the limited complexity of the work. The work is reviewed by observation, crosschecks, or by the immediate supervisor and by other steps in the account-keeping process. Does related work as required.