Position Title

Staff Assistant - RIC

Required Application Type

School Related Personnel

Salary/Pay Scale

$41,660 - $45,094

Job Description

PRIMARY PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides information and assistance to component school districts regarding LHRIC services.
• Assists in identifying customer problems and refers to appropriate staff.
• Acts as a liaison for LHRIC staff with school district personnel and vendors, e.g., follows-up on outstanding orders, reports back to district on status of orders.
• Performs a variety of clerical tasks: operates automated systems equipment to generate correspondence and maintain databases; sorts and distributes mail, operates office equipment such as a photocopier and fax; relieves Telephone Operator at lunch and at break times.
• Schedules all workshops for personnel in component school districts.
• Makes preliminary preparations for workshops: registration, coordination (ensuring participants have taken necessary prerequisite courses), telephones contact to confirm attendance, provides information regarding conference agendas, provides directions to participants.
• Photocopies and collates training materials for classes and/or presentations.
• Prepares rooms for meetings/training sessions, including setting up computers for workshops.
• Compiles data extracted from in-house database to assist in the billing process, i.e., determines the number of W-2 forms generated for a district so that the financial section can determine the charge for the service.
• Compiles data, statistics, and materials for reports, e.g., State Planning Report: BOCES provides information to the New York State department of Education such as how many personal computers and file servers were added to the network.
• Prepares requisitions and purchase orders and tracks billing status.
• Maintains software library.
• Provides library support service to district teachers concerning identification and evaluation of software programs.

Civil Service Title

Staff Assistant - RIC

Job Qualifications

CIVIL SERVICE QUALIFICATIONS:

• MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:  Possession of a high school or equivalency diploma and two (2) years of clerical experience, one (1) year of which must have involved the use of word processing to produce correspondence or data entry using an automated database.
• SUBSTITUTION:  Satisfactory completion of 30 college credits  may be substituted for one (1) year of the required clerical experience. There is no substitution for the one (1) year of specialized experience.
• Priority given to candidates who are currently on a Civil Service List for this title.
• Candidates must have taken or be eligible to take the civil service exam for this title.

Job Category

Clerical

Job Location

Harrison - Lower Hudson Regional Information Center

Additional Information