Administrative Support Specialist I - G112 Muscogee County Prison
Columbus Consolidated Government
Administration, Customer Service
Columbus, GA, USA
Posted on Oct 9, 2024
Major Duties and Responsibilities
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This position performs administrative and clerical duties in support of department operations.
- Greet the public and direct them to the appropriate personnel.
- Assist internal and external customers with information.
- Manage calls, including taking messages, directing calls, and receiving citizen complaints.
- Perform administrative and clerical work, including typing, filing, and data entry.
- Write appropriate court bonds for inmate release.
- Receive, open, sort, and distribute mail.
- Performs other related job duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
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- Knowledge of modern office principles and practices.
- Knowledge of GCIC and NCIC rules and regulations.
- Ability to manage working relationships.
- Ability to read, write, and perform mathematical calculations.
- Skilled in the use of office equipment including computers, copiers, and related software.
- Skilled in oral and written communication.
- Skilled in time management, organization, problem solving, and decision-making.
Minimum Educational and Training Requirements
Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one year.
Physical Requirements
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The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table. The employee must occasionally lift light objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
- Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
- Crawling – moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
- Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
- Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
- Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
- Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
- Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
- Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
- Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Standing – for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
- Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
- Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
- Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
- Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
- Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
- Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
- Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
- Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.