Impactful Youth Services Administrative Clerk

State-of-Missour; Poplar Bluff (MO); On-site; USD 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid holidays

Retirement plan

Cafeteria plan

Job summary

The State of Missouri, Division of Youth Services, is seeking an Administrative Support Clerk to join a first-level administrative team supporting a treatment program for youth. The role requires clerical accuracy, reliability, and courteous public interaction.

Responsibilities include filing, records preparation, travel arrangements, reception duties, and data entry across automated systems and databases. A high school diploma or GED is required with 6+ months office experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of general office practices.
• Ability to maintain clerical records and operate basic office equipment.
• Ability to interact on the telephone or in person with the public.

Responsibilities

• Perform common and repetitive clerical, printing, data entry, and mail related tasks.
• Maintain, with relative independence, a significant phase or segment of a clerical process or office activity and make frequent decisions in accordance with agency policies, rules, or procedures.
• Compose routine correspondence utilizing a computer keyboard; proofreads and/or finalizes letters, memorandums, reports, or other documents for approval and/or signature.
• Establish and maintain filing systems.
• Prepare records for storage and/or archiving.
• Prepare purchase and supply requisitions, personnel and/or payroll records, time and leave records, expense accounts, or other program or agency documents; maintain an adequate stock of needed supplies for regional and facility usage.
• Arrange travel and accommodations.
• Serves as receptionist or information clerk; determines purpose of contact; provides general information and assists in preparation of forms if needed; directs individuals to proper destination; receives and distributes messages; and schedules and/or arranges appointments as necessary
• Enter and update information in automated systems, spreadsheets, and databases; utilizes various software packages in the performance of duties.
• Maintain required ledgers as needed, following all procedures regarding proper receipts, obtaining signatures, maintaining subsidiary ledgers and keeping expenditure documentation separate, etc.
• Perform other tasks as assigned.

Skills

General office practices

Data entry

Telephone/customer interaction

Office equipment operation

Education

High school diploma or GED

15 college credit hours substitute for experience

Tools

Spreadsheets

Databases

Word processing / software packages

Job description

The State of Missouri, Division of Youth Services, is seeking an Administrative Support Clerk to join a first-level administrative team supporting a treatment program for youth. The role requires clerical accuracy, reliability, and courteous public interaction.

Responsibilities include filing, records preparation, travel arrangements, reception duties, and data entry across automated systems and databases. A high school diploma or GED is required with 6+ months office experience preferred.