What are the responsibilities and job description for the Office Assistant position at University of Houston?
Department: Police
Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
Description
Provides clerical office support to office staff by performing diverse duties such as word processing, typing, filing and preparing department expenditure documents. May check and guide work of lower-level office personnel. Performs a variety of office duties, which typically include one or more of the following:
Requires a minimum of one (1) year of directly job-related experience.
Additional Posting Information
All staff are considered 'essential personnel' and are required to report to work during inclement weather.
All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.
The policy of the University of Houston-System and its universities is to ensure equal opportunity in all its educational programs and activities, and all terms and conditions of employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, military status, genetic information, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or status, or gender expression, except where such a distinction is required by law.
Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
Description
Provides clerical office support to office staff by performing diverse duties such as word processing, typing, filing and preparing department expenditure documents. May check and guide work of lower-level office personnel. Performs a variety of office duties, which typically include one or more of the following:
- Preparing financial/expenditure documents for the department, maintaining financial/expenditure files, and following up on vendor inquiries.
- Ordering supplies, maintaining supplies and periodically taking inventory.
- Typing a variety of forms and correspondence from rough notes and drafts.
- Sorting and distributing incoming mail, receiving mail deliveries and routing it to appropriate faculty and staff.
- Assisting in calculating balances of departmental budget accounts.
- Operating the fax machine and copier.
- Inputting data into a centralized computer terminal.
- Maintaining departmental files to ensure that all records are updated and modified as necessary.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Requires a minimum of one (1) year of directly job-related experience.
Additional Posting Information
- Experience creating basic to intermediate level excel spreadsheets.
- 6 months or more experience in office setting or higher education.
- Experience providing Executive administrative level support a plus.
- Must have valid Driver’s License or be able to obtain before an offer of employment is made.
- Experience will be considered in lieu of education.
- Education will be considered in lieu of experience.
All staff are considered 'essential personnel' and are required to report to work during inclement weather.
All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.
The policy of the University of Houston-System and its universities is to ensure equal opportunity in all its educational programs and activities, and all terms and conditions of employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, military status, genetic information, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or status, or gender expression, except where such a distinction is required by law.
