Office Assistant

Government of Canada - Western; Surrey; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental organization is seeking a detail-oriented individual for an administrative role located in Surrey, Metro Vancouver. The candidate will be responsible for typing and proofreading documents, processing mail, providing customer service, and maintaining inventory. Applicants should possess a secondary school graduation certificate and be ready to work on-site at the designated location. This role does not offer remote work options.

Responsibilities

• Type and proofread correspondence, forms, and other documents.
• Receive and forward telephone or electronic enquiries.
• Work on reports from manual or electronic files, inventories, and databases.
• Sort, process, and verify applications, receipts, and other documents.
• Process incoming and outgoing mail manually or electronically.
• Send and receive messages.
• Perform basic bookkeeping tasks.
• Prepare and format page presentation.
• Prepare invoices and bank deposits.
• Provide general information to clients and the public.
• Photocopy and collate documents for distribution, mailing, and filing.
• Order office supplies and maintain inventory.
• Perform data entry.
• Provide customer service.
• File material in storage area.
• Label files according to retention and disposal schedules.
• Label, file, and retrieve documents.
• Locate and remove files requested.
• Organize and schedule office work.

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Job description

Overview

Languages: English

Education

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience

Will train

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work setting

• Urban area

Responsibilities Tasks

• Type and proofread correspondence, forms and other documents
• Receive and forward telephone or electronic enquiries
• Work on reports from manual or electronic files, inventories and databases
• Sort, process and verify applications, receipts and other documents
• Process incoming and outgoing mail manually or electronically
• Send and receive messages
• Perform basic bookkeeping tasks
• Prepare and format page presentation
• Prepare invoices and bank deposits
• Provide general information to clients and the public
• Photocopy and collate documents for distribution, mailing and filing
• Order office supplies and maintain inventory
• Perform data entry
• Provide customer service
• File material in storage area
• Label files according to retention and disposal schedules
• Label, file and retrieve documents
• Locate and remove files requested
• Organize and schedule office work