Administrative Specialist I (Basic Needs Program)

Palomar College; San Marcos (CA); On-site; USD 57,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans fully paid for employees

Dental & Vision

Vacation & sick leave

25 paid holidays

Life/AD&D insurance

Long-term care insurance

Employee Assistance Program

CalPERS retirement

Job summary

Palomar College seeks an Administrative Specialist I for the Basic Needs Program in the Office of Student Life & Leadership. This role performs routine to moderately difficult clerical and technical support tasks, including setting appointments, maintaining calendars, composing documents and printing and reviewing reports, and screens students for program eligibility and assists with enrollment paperwork.

The position maintains files and databases while supporting department operations.

Qualifications

• Two years of clerical and secretarial experience.
• Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade; transcripts may be required for equivalency.

Responsibilities

• Set appointments and maintain calendars.
• Compose documents and print/review reports.
• Screen students for program eligibility and assist with enrollment paperwork.
• Maintain files, records and databases.

Skills

Clerical experience

Secretarial duties

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Administrative Specialist I (Basic Needs Program)

Department: Office of Student Life & Leadership (Dept)

Palomar College

Primary Function

Performs routine to moderately difficult clerical and technicalsupport functions in an assigned department or grant fundedprogram, including setting appointments, maintaining calendars, composing documents and printing and reviewing reports; screensstudents and customers for program eligibility, assists withprogram enrollment paperwork and may collect fees; maintains files,records and databases.

Salary

• $4,714.30 [step 1] - $5,733.10 [step 5]. Step placement may benegotiable within this range dependent upon education andexperience.
• If you are a current employee who applies via the externalrecruitment process and is selected for a promotion, step placementon the new grade will be in accordance with the applicable Districtagreement/handbook.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive compensationstructure, Palomar College also offers an extremely generousbenefits package.

• Insurance fully paid for employees and their eligibledependents: four medical plans, dental HMO, and the vision plan(additional plans are available that require employee buyup/monthly contribution)
• Vacation, sick leave and 25 paid holidays
• $80,000 employee term life/accident insurance policy(additional buy up options available)
• Employee long-term care insurance
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) - Confidential free counseling,financial, legal, personal and professional development resourcesfor all members of your household
• Additional buy up options available for other voluntaryinsurance benefits
• Enrollment in CalPERS (California Public Employees RetirementSystem)

The estimated maximum value of this employer-paid benefits packageis approximately $31,245.84 annually.

Minimum Qualifications

To be eligible for this position, you must meet and provide evidence of the following minimum qualifications:

Experience

Two years of increasingly responsible clerical and secretarial experience.

• Note: For work experience, a "year" is defined as equivalent to 40 hours per week for 12 months.

Education

Equivalent to completion of the twelfthgrade.

• Transcripts must be included to receive credit for educationand/or to substitute education in lieu of experience (i.e.Bachelor's degree = 4 years of experience). Click here for Guidelines for Equivalency for ClassifiedPositions.
• Only coursework completed at, and degrees awarded by, accredited institutions recognized by the U.S. Department ofEducation will be considered as satisfying the minimumqualifications. Coursework and degrees that are completed outsideof the United States are required to have transcripts evaluated(evaluation to U.S. equivalency and a course by course analysis) by an appropriate U.S. credentials evaluation service. For a list ofcredentials evaluation agencies accepted by Palomar College, visit the National Association of Credentials Evaluation Services (NACES) website at https://naces.org/, or the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. (AICE) website at http://aice-eval.org/.

Diversity Statement

Palomar College serves over 30,000 students from a variety of backgrounds and we are proud to be a Hispanic Serving Institution. Our student body is rich in its diversity. Click here to see a quick overview of our studentdemographics on our recent Student Fact Sheet.

About the District

Palomar College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive, two-year community college that serves the greater North San Diego County region. Palomar College offers over 200 associate degrees and certificate programs to approximately 25,000 full- and part-timestudents. A favorite in the community among local institutions ofhigher education, the College is recognized as one of the top 100Colleges and Universities in the nation for serving Hispanicstudents. Palomar College is just 12 miles from the Pacific Ocean and 30 miles away from all of the exciting cultural activities thatSan Diego has to offer.

Palomar College is an Equal Opportunity Employer(EOE).