Assistant (Hourly)

Austin Community College; City of White Plains (NY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

Austin Community College seeks an Assistant (Hourly) to provide clerical and administrative support to a departmental office or program. The role offers up to 19 hours per week at $23.00 per hour.

Duties include data entry, document production, answering calls, handling mail, and maintaining records. The position may substitute in the Children's Lab School and reports to the Lab School Manager.

Qualifications

• Performs office duties in support of faculty, staff, and/or student efforts.
• Gathers, compiles, and enters data, producing routine reports and documents.
• Produces handouts, fliers, newsletters, brochures, manuals, and other documents.
• Answers the telephone, routes calls, or takes messages; responds to inquiries.
• May input budget figures, prepares requisitions, logs and tracks expenditures.
• Maintains tracking systems and logs.
• Operates office equipment such as copiers and fax machines.
• Acts as classroom substitute or floater for the Children's Lab School as staffing demands
• Other duties as required or assigned by the Lab School Manager.

Responsibilities

• Provide clerical and administrative support to a departmental office or program.
• Support faculty, staff, and students with routine office tasks.
• Assist with data entry and document production.
• Coordinate mail handling and filing systems.
• Maintain records and ensure confidentiality of information.
• Support budgeting and invoicing activities as needed.

Skills

Office procedures

Customer service

Confidentiality

Relationship management

Scheduling

Data entry

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Clerical duties

Multicultural communication

Tools

Spreadsheet software

Word processing

Database software

Presentation software

Job description

Job Posting Closing Times: Job postings are removed from advertising at 12:00 A.M. on the closing date e.g., at midnight on the day before the closing date.

Austin Community College employees are required to maintain a domicile in the State of Texas while working for the college and throughout the duration of employment. –AR 4.0300.01

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Assistant (Hourly)

Job Description Summary:

Provides clerical and administrative support to a departmental office or program.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Performs office duties in support of faculty, staff, and/or student efforts, including word processing, data entry, maintaining files, processing mail, and duplication.

• Gathers, compiles, and enters data, producing routine reports and documents.

• Produces handouts, fliers, newsletters, brochures, manuals, and other documents.

• Answers the telephone, routes calls, or takes messages; responds to and/or directs inquiries in person or on the telephone.

• May input budget figures, prepares requisitions, logs and tracks expenditures, takes payments, or issues invoices or bills.

• Maintains tracking systems and logs.

• Operates office equipment such as copiers and fax machines.

• Acts as classroom substitute or floater for the Children's Lab School as staffing demands

• Other duties as required or assigned by the Lab School Manager

Knowledge:

• Office procedures and practices.

• Customer service techniques.

Skills:

• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.

• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

• Maintaining an established work schedule.

• Effectively using interpersonal and communication skills.

• Effectively using organizational and planning skills.

• Entering data, maintaining files, and performing other clerical duties.

• Effective customer-orientation when working with a multicultural population.

Technology Skills:

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

• May also use social media, work with desktop publishing, and update webpages.

Physical Requirements:

• Work is routinely performed in a standard office or similar environment.

• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, kneeling, pushing, and pulling.

• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety:

• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Pay Rate:

$23.00/Hour

Up to 19 hours per week

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

October 8, 2026

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non‑campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ([e-mail]). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.