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Deputy Clerk I
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County Clerk's Office |
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Closed |
| Salary: |
$25,000.00 Annual |
Performs a variety of clerical functions which follow established procedures and which may require some judgment and assistance to defendants, attorney, the general public and/or fellow staff. Most work procedures are pre-established and on the job training is provided. The County Clerk may set new procedures and/or changes as needed and deputy Clerks are expected to adjust to any changes implemented.
Essential Duties and Responsibilites:
- Ability to type correspondence and other documents and materials using a typewriter and/or processing software.
- Performs general clerical duties as required, including filing, indexing and recording, making copies, sorting, stuffing and mailing documents.
- Ability to assist the public in person or by telephone, convey messages, make telephone calls, faxes and distribute mail.
- Proofreads records and conducts research as needed on property records and on every document available for public review in the County Clerk's Office.
- Assists the public by answering questions on all real, personal and criminal correspondence.
- Must have good communication skills.
- Must be flexible and available, if assigned to perform other duties in other departments which may include any of the following: Deed records, Civil, Probate, Collections, Marriage, Accounting, Criminal, Vital Statistics, Assumed Name Records and Commissioner's Court.
- Must be able to work overtime when required.
- Ability to work well with others including vendors, fellow employees, elected officials and department heads.
- Must be able to accept and follow written and/or oral instructions.
- Must be willing and able to follow all Civil Service rules.
- Regular and timely attendance is a must.
- Performs such other duties as may be assigned.
Education and/or Experience:
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) with typing courses, plus a minimum of one (1) year of responsible clerical work experience, preferably with governmental entity; OR
Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provided the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
Bilingual is preferred.
Other Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to read, interpret and accept documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
- Ability to fill out reports and answer routing correspondence. Ability to speak effectively to the public.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Employee may be assigned other duties in addition to those listed; duties may change according to the changing needs of the County.
Work Location:
Courthouse
100 N. Closner - Edinburg
Work Hours:
40 hours per week / Monday thru Friday |
| 7/26/2010 8:00 AM |
| 7/30/2010 5:00 PM |
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