Are you looking for a challenging opportunity to expand your experience in accounting and financial record keeping? If so, the State of Connecticut, Office of the Treasurer has an exciting opportunity for you and would love to have you join our team!
The State of Connecticut, Office of the State Treasurer (OTT) is recruiting for a full-time Administrative Assistant (Confidential) to support the Management Services Division.

ABOUT US:

The Office of the Treasurer exists to provide and ensure effective financial management of public resources, high standards of professionalism and integrity, and expanding opportunity for State of Connecticut residents and businesses.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY

• Considerable knowledge of
• office administration and management;
• department and/or unit policies and procedures;
• proper grammar, punctuation and spelling;
• business communications;
• Knowledge of business math;
• Considerable interpersonal skills;
• Ability to
• operate office equipment which includes computers, tablets, and other electronic equipment;
• operate office suite software;
• take notes (shorthand, speedwriting or other method acceptable to manager).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE

Four (4) years of experience above the routine clerk level in office support or secretarial work.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SPECIAL EXPERIENCE

One (1) year of the General Experience must have been as a Secretary 2 or its equivalent.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED

College training in the secretarial sciences may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of 15 semester hours equalling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with office administration procedures, and with developing and maintaining department procedure manuals.
• Proven experience with attention to detail in all tasks, especially proofreading, grammar, punctuation and spelling documents.
• Experience with organizing and maintaining a filing system, preparing expense requests for employees, assisting with travel arrangements and building maintenance requests.
• Experience in a professional office setting handling oral and written communications with external and internal stakeholders, including managing main phone line and logging information.
• Experience and proven proficiency with coordinating all aspects of scheduled meetings.

PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK)

In a state agency this class is accountable for independently performing the most complex tasks in providing both office administration and secretarial support for a major program.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

Performs the most complex office administrative duties as described in the following areas: