Position: Keyboard Specialist
Location: Teaching & Learning Center, BARN - Olean
Division: Instructional Support Services
Supervisor: Program Manager for Learning Resources
Please Note: Only individuals who have received a canvassing letter or phone call, or who are presently employed in a comparable Civil Service title, should apply for this role.
Description: This position involves responsibility for the performance of standardized clerical tasks and the full-time or substantial part-time operation of equipment requiring the manipulating of an alphanumeric keyboard to produce printed copy. Specific duties vary with the needs of the department. Supervisors are available for consultation concerning new or difficult assignments. Work is reviewed by immediate observation, checking completed work, periodic or spot checks, cross-checking or other steps in the clerical process. Supervision over the work of others is not a responsibility of employees in this class. A Keyboard Specialist does related work as required
TYPICAL WORK ACTIVITIES:
- Receives and organizes work to be typed determining document format;
- Types correspondence, documents, records and other written material in final or draft form using handwritten, rough drafts, marked copy, oral recordings or data from various equipment as the source material;
- Proofreads and corrects work producing accurate, clean and complete typed copy;
- Makes arithmetical computations, compiles and types simple statistical reports;
- Prepares, stores and retrieves lists and documents;
- Answers telephone and gives out routine information or relieves at switchboard;
- Updates and stores department forms on word processor;
- Orders office supplies and maintains inventory of supplies and equipment;
- Sorts, date stamps and distributes mail and packages;
- Performs routine equipment maintenance tasks;
- Serves as receptionist and greets clients and/or visitors;
- Maintains alphabetic, numeric and/or chronological files of correspondence, documents and materials by coding and filing new material, searching for requested material and periodically purging obsolete material;
- Schedules meetings and appointments;
- May collect fees and account for monies received;
- May prepare and maintain time records and payroll data
Minimum Starting Salary: $29,689 per year