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18 Aug2023
Full-Time Office Assistant Option Spanish Speaking #29628 Chicago
Elisad5 – Posted by Elisad5 – Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Date: Aug 15, 2023
Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60623
Job Requisition ID: 29628
Agency: Department of Human Services
Opening Date: 08/16/2023
Closing Date/Time: 08/29/2023
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $3,196 – $4,235 per month ($38,352 – $50,820 per year) + bilingual pay
Job Type: Salaried Full Time
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 1
Plan/BU: RC014
Work Hours: Mon – Fri, 8:30am – 5:00pm
Work Location: 3920 W Ogden Ave Chicago, IL 60623-2470
Family & Community Services
Region 1 North
Clerical
Ogden Office/Cook County
Position Overview
The Division of Family & Community Services is seeking to hire a friendly, personable speaking voice who loves helping others to work as an Office Assistant at the Ogden Family and Community Resource Center. As an Office Assistant, you will typically be the first-person customers speak with, so you will have a great responsibility of providing clients with a productive experience. The Division helps Illinois residents by connecting them with many programs and services. Through our programs, services and prevention efforts, the Division improves the health and well-being of individuals and promotes self-sufficiency and integrity of families of Illinois.
Job Responsibilities
Receives and distributes mail, manual releases, and memos, including incoming correspondence from customers and applicants, drop box items, faxes, and centrally mailed reports.
Edits general client information in the Integrated Eligibility System (IES) system.
Keyboards, prepares, or proofreads a wide variety of correspondence.
Serves as receptionist.
Provides clerical office support.
Serves as timekeeper for staff.
Translates functions/procedures into Spanish for individuals who cannot speak, read or write English, in contacts with the general public, advocacy groups, customers and community organizations.
Maintains files, office supplies, and forms.
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of high school.
Requires one (1) year of related office experience.
Requires the ability to speak, read, and write Spanish at a colloquial skill level.
Requires the ability to keyboard accurately at 35 wpm.
About the Agency:
As a State of Illinois Employee, you will receive a robust benefit package that includes the following:
•A Pension Program
•Competitive Group Insurance Benefits including Health, Life, Dental and Vision Insurance
•3 Paid Personal Business Days annually
•12 Paid Sick Days annually (Sick days carry over from year to year)
•10-25 Days of Paid Vacation time annually – (10 days in year one of employment)
*Personal, Sick, & Vacation rates modified for 12-hour Work Schedules (as applicable)
•13 Paid Holidays annually, 14 on even numbered years
•Flexible Work Schedules (when available dependent upon position)
•10 Weeks Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave
•Deferred Compensation Program – A supplemental retirement plan
•Optional Pre-Tax Programs such as Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP), Dependent CareAssistance Plan (DCAP)
•Tuition Reimbursement Program and Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility
•5% Salary Differential for Bilingual Positions
•Commuter Savings Program (Chicago only)
For more information about our benefits please follow this link: https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/Pages/default.aspx
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