Monthly Pay:
$3,721 - $5,558 USD per month
Summary:
This role sits within an office administration team guided by an office manager and works alongside administrative assistants and department coordinators. The clerk completes routine administrative updates, maintains task lists, and prepares meeting information so colleagues can find accurate details and keep work moving. Daily contact with internal requesters helps clarify instructions, resolve missing information, and direct questions to the right person. This fully remote position offers work from home in South Carolina, United States, with all duties completed through shared online systems. The role requires a 40-hour weekly commitment. Working days and shift times may vary.
Job Responsibilities:
- Review incoming requests in a shared email inbox, identify the requested administrative action, and place each item in the appropriate work queue.
- Check submitted details against the original request, confirm names and dates, and ask the requester for missing information before making updates.
- Enter approved task details into a project management tool such as Trello, recording the owner, requested completion date, current status, and next action.
- Update meeting invitations through a scheduling and calendar tool such as Microsoft Outlook, checking attendee availability and confirming changes with the meeting organizer.
- Prepare meeting agendas from approved discussion items using a word processor such as Google Docs, checking headings, dates, and participant details for accuracy.
- Take concise meeting minutes when assigned, note agreed actions and responsible colleagues, and share the completed notes with the organizer for review.
- Maintain internal contact lists and administrative reference pages, making requested corrections and checking that colleagues can locate the current version.
- Follow up with requesters when answers or approvals are outstanding, record the response, and update task status so the team can track progress.
- Escalate conflicting instructions, access problems, or requests outside established procedures to the office manager, including a clear explanation of what needs attention.
- Complete a final check before closing each request; quality is judged by accuracy, turnaround, complete notes, and timely follow-up on unresolved items.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- No experience required; related office administration, clerical support, or remote administrative experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with basic business administration practices, including internal request handling, contact list maintenance, and routing questions to the appropriate colleague.
- Understanding of meeting coordination, agenda development, and minute taking, with willingness to learn established formats and review steps.
- Ability to learn shared task boards, online calendars, and word processors, including the example systems named in this posting.
- Clear written communication and courteous verbal communication for clarifying requests, confirming changes, and explaining outstanding questions to colleagues.
- Careful data entry, consistent checking habits, and the ability to organize several routine requests without losing track of pending actions.
- A reliable computer, high-speed internet, and a quiet private workspace; availability for the 40-hour weekly commitment and agreed working days and shift times.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
- Fully remote work from home with desk-based responsibilities and online collaboration.
- Structured onboarding and training on example systems such as Trello, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Docs, following the team's established procedures.
- Regular check-ins with the team lead to review questions, priorities, and progress.
- Opportunities to build office management knowledge, administrative accuracy, meeting support skills, and dependable follow-through.
Benefits:
- Health coverage, paid leave, a 401(k), bonus opportunities, and stipends.