Automotive Program Assistant (Hourly)

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution serving a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college and seek to recruit and retain a workforce that values intellectual curiosity, promotes equitable access to educational opportunities, and cares about student success.

About the role

Provides clerical and administrative support to the automotive department chair and automotive program.

Responsibilities

• Performs office duties in support of faculty, staff, and/or student efforts, including word processing, data entry, maintaining files, processing mail, and duplication.
• Gathers, compiles, and enters data, producing routine reports and documents.
• Produces handouts, fliers, newsletters, brochures, manuals, and other documents.
• Answers the telephone, routes calls, or takes messages; responds to and/or directs inquiries in person or on the telephone.
• May input budget figures, prepares requisitions, logs and tracks expenditures, takes payments, or issues invoices or bills.
• Maintains tracking systems and logs.
• Operates office equipment such as copiers and fax machines.
• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Requirements

• Office procedures and practices.
• Customer service techniques.
• Google Suite including Sheets, Docs, Forms, etc.

Skills

• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communication skills.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills.
• Entering data, maintaining files, and performing other clerical duties.
• Effective customer-orientation when working with a multicultural population.
• Positive attitude.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
• May also use social media, work with desktop publishing, and update webpages.

Physical Requirements

• Work is routinely performed in a standard office or similar environment.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, kneeling, pushing, and pulling.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Pay

$23.00 per hour, up to 19 hours per week.