ACCOUNT CLERK I

Salary: $17.79 - $26.57 Hourly
Location : Fayetteville, AR
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 02945
Department: PARKING MANAGEMENT (430)
Opening Date: 11/14/2025

The City of Fayetteville is committed to attracting, engaging and rewarding a multi-generational workforce. By offering a total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefits plans and a purposeful work life, the City is an employer of choice focused on serving our community.
Essential Job Duties

The City of Fayetteville is committed to attracting, engaging and rewarding a multi-generational workforce. By offering a total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefits plans and a purposeful work life, the City is an employer of choice focused on serving our community.

1. Provide good customer service to both internal and external customers, maintain positive and effective working relationships with other City employees (especially members of their own team), and have regular and reliable attendance that is non-disruptive.
2. Perform on site collections of parking revenues from parking pay stations and parking decks as scheduled. Reconcile collections with revenue management reports and complete bank deposits. Reconcile parking revenues by creating and maintaining financial reports for both the Entertainment District and Downtown parking zones.
3. Serve as first contact for parking issues.
4. Be knowledgeable of City Ordinance and parking policies and explain parking policies, address complaints regarding parking tickets and answer questions from general public, downtown employees and customers.
5. Update parking ticket citations and payments.
6. Update parking ticket payments received through District Court for summonses (monthly).
7. Prepare parking citation appeals for review by Parking Manager. Maintain tracking spreadsheet and scan completed voids into computer system.
8. Invoice parking customers and maintain master files on customers.
9. Issue parking violations notices and summonses; send summonses to City Prosecutor and Warrant's Officer.
10. Maintain files on Summonses paid and/or returned to the Parking office by both the Warrant Office and District Court.
11. Maintain summary of parking violations issued and payments received. Create end of month journal entries and submit to Accounting.
12. Issue parking card to City employees and other customers of the parking program as needed.
13. Assist public with parking programs -hang tags, gated lots and parking decks.
14. Serve as back-up to prepare and process special event permit applications and maintain special events calendar.
15. Monitor parking lots with new client access system.
16. Maintain Event Parking summary. Code Event Parking deposits for Accounting.
17. Coordinate with other departments as needed.
18. Assist supervisors with projects and financial reports as needed.
19. Perform other duties as assigned.

Secondary Job Duties

1. Perform secondary duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

1. High school diploma or GED and three (3) years of related experience.
2. Must successfully pass a criminal background check, including but not limited to convictions, guilty pleas, or no contest pleas to violent offenses, theft offenses and any offense under A.C.A. 21-15-103 and A.C.A. 21-15-111.
3. Effectively communicate with others orally and in writing. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, or members of the business community.
4. Must be able to use mathematics including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and/or calculating rates and percents.
5. Must be proficient in the use of a computer and related software programs such as word processing and spreadsheet applications. Must be able to become proficient in the use of various parking software applications. Must have the ability to learn to utilize the City's financial management software application.
6. Must be able to effectively operate standard office equipment.
7. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to work outside in the downtown area and Entertainment District to collect parking revenues approximately two times each week. The employee must be able to bend and stoop, as well as frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds during the collection process. Vision abilities required to accomplish computer and office work.

The City of Fayetteville is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Full Time, 40 or more hours per week, non uniformed employee. Eligible for all City benefits offered to full time non uniformed employees and all full time City accruals of paid leave. Please click this link for more details on City employee benefits:

www.fayetteville-ar.gov/654/Employee-Benefits-Information
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The position requires a high school diploma or GED and three (3) years of related experience. Do you meet these requirements?

• YES
• NO

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If you answered yes to the previous question, please give a detailed description of the related experience you have and the length of time for this experience.
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The successful candidate must successfully pass a criminal background check, including but not limited to convictions, guilty pleas, or no contest pleas to violent offenses, theft offenses and any offense under A.C.A. 21-15-103 and A.C.A. 21-15-111. If selected, would you be able to meet this requirement?

• YES
• NO

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The candidate must have the ability to effectively communicate with others orally and in writing, as well as the ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, or members of the business community. Please describe your experience, work related or other, in meeting these communication requirements.
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The candidate must be able to use mathematics including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and/or calculating rates and percent's. Do you meet these requirements?

• YES
• NO

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If you answered yes to the previous question, please give a brief description of experience (work related or other) that you have in which you have successfully performed the above types of skills
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The candidate must be proficient in the use of a computer and related software programs such as word processing and spreadsheet applications. Do you meet these requirements?

• YES
• NO

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If you answered yes to the previous question, please describe the software programs you are familiar with and have experience in using.
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The candidate must be able to become proficient in the use of various parking software applications and must have the ability to learn to utilize the City's financial management software application. If selected, would you be able to meet these requirements?

• YES
• NO

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The candidate must be able to effectively operate standard office equipment (i.e.) copier, scanner, printer, fax, etc.). Do you meet this requirement?

• YES
• NO

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While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to work outside in the downtown area and Entertainment District to collect parking revenues approximately two times each week. The employee must be able to bend and stoop, as well as frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds during the collection process. Vision abilities required to accomplish computer and office work. If selected, would you be able to meet these requirements?

• YES
• NO

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Please feel free to use the space below to describe any additional skills, education, or other traits you possess which you believe qualify you for this position.
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