Front Desk Associate

Company: County of McHenry
Location: Woodstock
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY:

The Front Desk Associate answers and routes incoming calls and greets visitors.

Hours: 15.50 a week every other weekend and holidays.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

* Monitor visitor access and maintain security awareness.
* Provide general administrative and clerical support.
* Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate individuals.
* Greet visitors and callers, handle their inquiries, and direct them to the appropriate persons according to their needs.
* Set up and maintain paper and electronic filing systems for records, correspondence, and other material.
* Operate office equipment such as fax machines, copiers, phone systems, and use computers for spreadsheet, word processing, database management, and other applications.
* Sets up and maintains alphabetic and numeric files so that documents can be filed and retrieved in an orderly fashion; classifies active, inactive and archived files.
* Schedules and arranges appointments and reservations for meetings, facility usage, or other events.
* Interacts with staff, elected officials and the general public in person or by telephone in order to respond to inquiries, receive complaints, and resolve problems.
* Compose, type, and distribute meeting notes, routine correspondence, reports, memos, charts, and labels.
* Receives, processes and distributes departmental mail.
* Performing data entry using word processing, spreadsheet or database commands and formats material as required.
* Performs other related duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

Education and Experience:

* High school diploma or GED; and,
* One or more years of clerical experience in an office environment.

Paid Vacation, sick and persona days and holidays

McHenry County is an equal opportunity employer. No applicant for employment shall be discriminated against because of age, race, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, Veteran status or disability.

Keywords: County of McHenry, Elgin , Front Desk Associate, Other , Woodstock, Illinois