Senior Clerk

Job Title: Senior Typist

Job Summary: The Binghamton City School District is seeking a highly skilled Senior Typist to join our team. As a Senior Typist, you will be responsible for performing a variety of clerical tasks involving the operation of a computer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Types of correspondence, memorandum, and statement form copy, rough draft or oral presentations.
• Works on special projects such as annual employee picnics and award dinners.
• Types, processes, reviews, and files requisitions, vouchers, time sheets, bills and receipts.
• Works independently on projects such as processing accounts payable, maintaining records on capitol equipment purchases, dealing with vendors on incomplete, unfilled, or incorrect charges, preparing corrections on purchase orders or computer data, civil service and employment records and procedures.
• Types, issues, and maintains a record of applications, permits, and licenses.
• Maintains computerized filing and indexing systems.
• Maintains personnel records and prepares payroll adjustments
• Types, processes, reviews, and files a variety of control and operational records and reports.
• Answers the telephone to arrange appointments or to answer routine questions.
• Maintains a record or ledger of salaries, purchases, and contractual expenditures.
• May assign, train, and review the work performed by subordinate clerical employees and prepares work schedules.
• May instruct employees in the specialized clerical work of the organization.

Requirements:

• Good knowledge of office terminology, procedures, and equipment.
• Good knowledge of business arithmetic and English.
• Skills in the operation of office equipment.
• Ability to type accurately at an acceptable rate of speed.
• Ability to prepare and maintain a variety of written records and reports.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others.
• Clerical aptitude.
• Accuracy
• Physical condition commensurate with the demand of the position

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma including or supplemented by a course in typing and one year of clerical experience involving the operation of a computer.
• Two years of clerical experience which shall have involved typing.
• An equivalent combination of training and experience within the limits of all the above.