Office Specialist - Clerk
Office Specialist - Clerk
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Job Description
Our Clerk Department at Cache County is seeking an Office Specialist to join our team. This is an entry-level role where youll handle various clerical and secretarial tasks to help keep things running smoothly in the County Clerks office and support the county council. This is a full-time benefited position.
The starting wage for the Office Specialist position is $19.21 per hour. Youll receive great benefits from day one including medical dental vision and life insurance retirement contributions bereavement leave and 14 paid holidays. Plus full-time employees get 18 days of personal leave in their first year!
What youll be doing:
You might take notes at county council meetings type messages for the council or help keep our records organized. Youll get to help people with all sorts of things like understanding laws procedures elections voter registration and getting licenses assisting folks with their business licenses helping out with election stuff including organizing federal state and county elections and training election workers. Handling all the details for marriage licenses - recording processing and organizing them. Helping to balance and deposit money collected.
What you need:
A high school diploma plus at least a year of experience in a similar role or a combo of education and experience thats just as good. You should be good with computers typing data entry and filing. Knowing about budgets bookkeeping and general office procedures will be super helpful. Youll need to be able to pick up official document formats quickly work fast and accurately with numbers and handle deadlines like a pro.
Being a great communicator both in person and in writing is key. Were looking for someone who can build good relationships with colleagues and elected officials and whos awesome at customer service.
The ability to work independently is a big plus!
ABOUT YOU:
Education & Experience: Graduation from High School with course background in accounting or bookkeeping or equivalent; 1 year of experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge: Working knowledge of county fiscal practices and procedures; ability to follow complex instructions.
Skills: Skilled in operating a computer terminal typing data entry filing systems budgetary principles bookkeeping and accounting techniques most appropriate to county government standard office practices and procedures related to filing and record keeping.
Abilities: Ability to learn official document formats and indexing methods; work quickly and accurately with figures; work under time pressure in meeting deadlines; ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with subordinates peers supervisors and elected officials.
PHYSICAL DEMAND:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing this jobs duties the employee is required to execute tasks requiring a variety of physical activities such as walking standing stooping sitting reaching talking hearing and seeing. Work tasks require common eye hand finger leg and foot dexterity. Mental tasks require the use of memory for details verbal instructions emotional stability and discrimination thinking.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee works in a typical office setting.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:
This is a career service position. Cache County is an equal-opportunity employer and we hire without regard to race color religion national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity age or disability. We provide reasonable accommodations for known disabilities per the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require accommodation information or special assistance with the application process dont hesitate to contact our HR department at
For veterans claiming preference (Utah Code Ann. 71A-2-102) please indicate this in your cover letter with sufficient information to identify the type of preference requested. A copy of your DD-214 must also be attached to your resume. If claiming disabled preference please attach a copy of your letter from the VA stating your disability percentage.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
