Pay Range: $26.38 to $34.30/hour
Pay Range: $54,879 to $71,343/annually
Job Posting Closing on: Friday November 1, 2024
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
A Senior Administrative Assistant position is available at the Fort Worth Public Library. This position will provide complex administrative support to the Library Director, serve as liaison to the Library Advisory Board, respond to Public Information requests and complete special projects as needed. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, able to take initiative over work tasks, be highly organized, detail oriented, analytical thinker, possess strong communication skills and able to adapt quickly to changing situations.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Public Administration, Business Administration, Human Resources or related field.
- Three (3) years of increasingly responsible administrative and fiscal management experience, including one (1) year in a supervisory or lead capacity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including researching, editing and proofreading.
- Excellent relationship building skills that will support relationship building with employees, elected officials, board members and the public.
- Exceptional organizational skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
The Sr. Administrative Assistant’s job responsibilities include:
- Providing executive level administrative support to the Library Director and Assistant Directors, to include appointment scheduling, meeting planning and answering phone calls and emails.
- Providing support for the Library Advisory Board through consistent communication with board members, scheduling and posting board meetings and drafting agendas and minutes.
- Facilitating travel and reimbursement for the Library’s executive team.
- Responding to escalated customer concerns.
- Monitoring various projects and timelines for the Library’s executive team.
- Coordinating the Library’s response to Public Information Requests.
- Acting as the Library’s central volunteer coordinator.
- Participating in meetings; takes and distributes minutes.
Working Conditions and Physical Demand
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.