Administrative Support Professional

Why You’ll Love This Position

At Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center you will join a multi-disciplinary team of talented, compassionate professionals, helping individuals impacted by a mental illness and/or developmental disability to transform their previous experiences into a personal journey of healing, resilience, and recovery, through exceptional care and the highest quality, evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and coordinate the work of staff doing a limited range of general activities in direct support of agency programs or operations, including but not limited to clerical, printing services, mail services, medical coding, administrative, and other business support activities.
• Ensure the timely, accurate, and efficient flow of work in the office or department.
• Perform supervisory duties including hire recommendations, training, planning and assigning work, performance assessment, coaching, and progressive discipline.
• Perform and review the work overseen to ensure quality and compliance.
• Handle a variety of support service functions such as personnel, expenditure control, accounting, maintenance of files and records, upkeep of buildings and grounds, requisitioning, storage, issuance, and/or local procurement of supplies and equipment.
• Approve requisitions for payment of operating expenses.
• Assist in the selection, placement, and supervision of staff.
• Operate a central switchboard and/or manage printing and mailing services.
• Assist agency directors, administrators, commissioners, their deputies, and other executive service management in the administration of agency programs and operations.
• Coordinate communications internally and externally.
• Represent the agency to the public, special interest groups, the legislature, and the media.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of office management and/or supervision.
• Knowledge of a variety of support service functions and related rules and regulations.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and develop skills of staff.
• Ability to oversee and coordinate support operations to attain work objectives.

Qualifications

4-6 years of relevant experience or a Bachelor’s degree and 0-2 years of relevant experience. (Substitutions may be allowed.) Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis for denying consideration to any applicant.

Benefits

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes:

• A defined pension plan.
• Generous amounts of leave and holiday time.
• Eligibility for health insurance coverage.

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