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Office Assistant
Mohave County Economic Development is currently looking to fill an Office Assistant position. Our mission is to create a business environment that attracts quality investment with high value jobs, fosters growth, builds community unity, generates an affordable cost of living and a great quality of life, as well as supports and encourages tourism. This is a grant-funded position expected to conclude in June or July 2026. The role involves office-based work within a small department consisting of four staff members. Key responsibilities include the ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, assisting learners with enrolling in training programs, communicating professionally with partner organizations, traveling within the county as needed, performing administrative tasks and maintaining accurate records, and learning and utilizing various software systems including Microsoft Office and other reporting tools. Key position details include full-time employment with 40 hours per week, a schedule from Monday through Friday with no weekends or holidays, and a starting pay of $15.91 per hour. Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following: meeting and greeting the public, receiving phone calls and responding to questions concerning department procedures or directing queries to an individual or department as appropriate, gathering preliminary information or verifying information for various county programs or activities, reviewing work of other staff for conformance to regulations, understanding and interpreting procedures and practices related to various departmental and assigned programs, performing routine administrative details including sorting and routing department mail, making copies, scanning documents, filing, alphabetizing documents and date stamping incoming documents, maintaining waiting lists for services, maintaining program specific databases and spreadsheets, contacting vendors to obtain prices and purchasing various supplies and materials, maintaining and establishing associated files to include entering information and documents into filing and data systems ensuring completeness and accuracy, typing forms, letters, reports and file cards from draft or rough copy, preparing follow-up correspondence or calls to obtain additional information or to respond to inquiries, preparing standardized reports and statements, processing payments in the database, recording attendance and documenting notes at required meetings, collecting, compiling and submitting data for use in statistical reports, internal operating studies or policy formulation, meeting established deadlines and informing concerned parties of deadlines and appointments, maintaining an inventory of materials on-hand and notifying the supervisor when supplies are needed, maintaining a high level of confidentiality of information, presenting and conducting themselves in a professional manner at all times, communicating in a courteous and helpful manner as well as clear and concise manner at all times, and resolving complaints within scope of information and authority, and/or referring to chain-of-command as appropriate. Minimum qualifications include a high school diploma or GED, two years minimum of progressive office support and clerical training, cash handling and/or bookkeeping, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. Special job requirements include possession of a valid driver's license for operation of motor vehicles on Arizona roads at the start of employment and maintaining said license while employed in this position, and providing acceptable driving history at no cost to the County. Knowledge, skills and abilities include modern office practices and records management/maintenance procedures, English grammar and spelling, basic mathematics required to calculate and perform general accounting procedures, filing and information systems including EXCEL and Microsoft Word, Mohave County Personnel Policies and Procedures and Department Regulations, effectively operating personal computers, calculators and peripheral hardware and software products to provide guidance on the maintenance and implementation of developmental procedures of department to which assigned, communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing with all people, use databases and other forms of electronic data storage, maintain accurate and up-to-date records and documentation, establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work, obtain data from the computer during on-line operations, including interpreting technical and departmental information encountered in the performance of responsibilities, maintain a high standard of confidentiality, understand brief, written or oral directions and grasp ideas quickly in order to carry out instructions, solve problems with initiative and exercise good judgment, organize workload to ensure determinations are made on a time basis, and perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation. Mohave County is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of Mohave County to provide equal opportunity in employment to all job applicants and employees. The County shall not discriminate against any person in recruitment, examination, appointment, training, pay promotion, retention, discipline or any other aspect of personnel administration, term or condition of employment, due to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, genetic information or disability, age (40 or older).
Mohave County Economic Development is currently looking to fill an Office Assistant position. Our mission is to create a business environment that attracts quality investment with high value jobs, fosters growth, builds community unity, generates an affordable cost of living and a great quality of life, as well as supports and encourages tourism. This is a grant-funded position expected to conclude in June or July 2026. The role involves office-based work within a small department consisting of four staff members. Key responsibilities include the ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, assisting learners with enrolling in training programs, communicating professionally with partner organizations, traveling within the county as needed, performing administrative tasks and maintaining accurate records, and learning and utilizing various software systems including Microsoft Office and other reporting tools. Key position details include full-time employment with 40 hours per week, a schedule from Monday through Friday with no weekends or holidays, and a starting pay of $15.91 per hour. Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following: meeting and greeting the public, receiving phone calls and responding to questions concerning department procedures or directing queries to an individual or department as appropriate, gathering preliminary information or verifying information for various county programs or activities, reviewing work of other staff for conformance to regulations, understanding and interpreting procedures and practices related to various departmental and assigned programs, performing routine administrative details including sorting and routing department mail, making copies, scanning documents, filing, alphabetizing documents and date stamping incoming documents, maintaining waiting lists for services, maintaining program specific databases and spreadsheets, contacting vendors to obtain prices and purchasing various supplies and materials, maintaining and establishing associated files to include entering information and documents into filing and data systems ensuring completeness and accuracy, typing forms, letters, reports and file cards from draft or rough copy, preparing follow-up correspondence or calls to obtain additional information or to respond to inquiries, preparing standardized reports and statements, processing payments in the database, recording attendance and documenting notes at required meetings, collecting, compiling and submitting data for use in statistical reports, internal operating studies or policy formulation, meeting established deadlines and informing concerned parties of deadlines and appointments, maintaining an inventory of materials on-hand and notifying the supervisor when supplies are needed, maintaining a high level of confidentiality of information, presenting and conducting themselves in a professional manner at all times, communicating in a courteous and helpful manner as well as clear and concise manner at all times, and resolving complaints within scope of information and authority, and/or referring to chain-of-command as appropriate. Minimum qualifications include a high school diploma or GED, two years minimum of progressive office support and clerical training, cash handling and/or bookkeeping, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. Special job requirements include possession of a valid driver's license for operation of motor vehicles on Arizona roads at the start of employment and maintaining said license while employed in this position, and providing acceptable driving history at no cost to the County. Knowledge, skills and abilities include modern office practices and records management/maintenance procedures, English grammar and spelling, basic mathematics required to calculate and perform general accounting procedures, filing and information systems including EXCEL and Microsoft Word, Mohave County Personnel Policies and Procedures and Department Regulations, effectively operating personal computers, calculators and peripheral hardware and software products to provide guidance on the maintenance and implementation of developmental procedures of department to which assigned, communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing with all people, use databases and other forms of electronic data storage, maintain accurate and up-to-date records and documentation, establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work, obtain data from the computer during on-line operations, including interpreting technical and departmental information encountered in the performance of responsibilities, maintain a high standard of confidentiality, understand brief, written or oral directions and grasp ideas quickly in order to carry out instructions, solve problems with initiative and exercise good judgment, organize workload to ensure determinations are made on a time basis, and perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation. Mohave County is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of Mohave County to provide equal opportunity in employment to all job applicants and employees. The County shall not discriminate against any person in recruitment, examination, appointment, training, pay promotion, retention, discipline or any other aspect of personnel administration, term or condition of employment, due to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, genetic information or disability, age (40 or older).