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State of Tennessee in Nashville, TN seeks an Admin Services Assistant to support the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. The role involves staff administrative work, budget and procurement tasks, and reporting to improve agency operations. Travel up to 20-30% statewide for monitoring and training activities may be required.
Requirements include a bachelor's degree and one year of relevant professional experience; substitutions allowed. In office position with background check.
Opening Date/Time 10/20/2026 12:00AM Central Time
Opening Date/Time 10/20/2026 12:00AM Central Time
Closing Date/Time 11/02/2026 11:59PM Central Time
Salary (Monthly) $3,667.00 - $4,578.00
Salary (Annually) $44,004.00 - $54,936.00
Job Type Full-Time
City, State Location Nashville, TN
Department Safety and Homeland Security
LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY & HOMELAND SECURITY, DAVIDSON COUNTY
For More Information, Visit The Link Below
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/safety/documents/MemoHiringProcessDuration.pdf
This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.
This position is designed as In office.
Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree AND experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional staff administrative and/or analytic experience.
Substitution of Experience for Education: Qualifying full-time increasingly responsible sub professional, para-professional, or professional experience may be substituted for the required education, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of four years.
Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional graduate coursework in public administration, business administration, or other acceptable field may be substituted for the required experience, on a year-for-year basis.
OR
One year of professional administrative services experience with the State of Tennessee.
Under general supervision, is responsible for staff administrative work of average difficulty in support of line operations; and performs related work as required. This is the working level in the Admin Services Assistant sub-series and work includes a variety of assignments such as: budget development and maintenance; contract development and monitoring; personnel administration; research; planning; information compilation and dissemination; procurement and property administration; grant proposal review and monitoring; forms design; and report and correspondence preparation. This class differs from that Admin Services Assistant 1 in that incumbents of the latter function in an entry level capacity under immediate supervision. This class differs from that of Admin Services Assistant 3 in that incumbents of the latter perform work of greater scope and complexity and have more responsibilities for developing, implementing, and enforcing policies and procedures and often supervise incumbents in this class.
State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:
Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.