Benchmark group:
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

Title:
SECRETARY TO DEPARTMENT HEAD

Short title:
SECRETARY TO DEPT HEAD

Part time:
false

Description:

Performs secretarial and clerical duties for a superior in an executive position; interviews and screens callers, supplying requested information or making appointments; may take dictation and transcribe shorthand notes or transcribe from a dictating machine; types a variety of letters, reports, articles, memoranda, and speeches, including materials of a confidential nature; composes correspondence and reports from brief notes or oral instructi o ns and occasionally without instructions; obtains information from sources within and outside the department; screens, indexes, and files correspondence.

Guide:

• Requires five years of varied and responsible secretarial, clerical, and office support experience.
• Requires clerical skills including typing and computer proficiency.
• May require dictation skills at a speed of at least 80 wpm.
• May supervise other clerks incidental to secretarial duties.

Exclusion:

• Pool stenographers.
• Secretaries to the head of a small organizational unit or a nonsupervisory staff specialist or professional employee.
• Supervisors who perform incidental secretarial duties.

Use actual:
false

Modified at:
07/21/08 20:33

Board:
false

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