Administrative Assistant
Job no: 501294
Position type: Staff Full-Time
Location: Morristown
Division/Equivalent: Walters State Community College
School/Unit: Walters State Community College
Categories: Staff
Job Title: Administrative Assistant
Job Grade: 114
Institution: Walters State Community College
Campus Location: Morristown Campus (Employees are assigned to a “home” location but may occasionally or regularly be required to work at other WSCC locations.)
Job Purpose: The purpose of this position is to provide a wide range of skills for the Campus Police Department that serves all five campuses of Walters State Community College.
Essential Job Functions:
- Provides customer service for the Campus Police office. Answers calls immediately and determines the level of service needed before referring to an officer in the department.
- Prepares and processes routine correspondence, budget adjustments, purchase orders, travel, and other documents.
- Maintains department master task list and calendars with appointments, project timelines, and critical due dates. Assists the Chief with TIBRS and Clery Act data collection.
- Assists in the ongoing key audit and accountability of campus police equipment.
- Assists in maintaining the campus emergency texting system.
- Creates documents for the Chief to be distributed among department and campus.
- Revises and maintains internal and external office forms to include campus maps, catalog revisions, and suggested communications to students.
- May perform other duties as required.
Required Qualifications:
- An associate’s degree is required.
- Excellent communication skills, advanced computer skills, and organizational skills.
- The ability to use common office equipment such as a PC, telephone, copier, and printer.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Five years of career experience in a related position. Educational and/or police department.
Behavioral Core Competencies:
- Works effectively as team member to achieve goals and objectives.
- Shares information readily with others and listens effectively, showing openness to new ideas
- Treats team members with dignity and trust and shows respect for others’ race, nationality, gender, age, background, perspectives, experience and style.
- Displays a high degree of personal effectiveness; pursues objectives with consistent determination. Willing and prepared to accept personal responsibility for actions, both positive and negative.
- Treats team members with respect. Willingly responds to requests for assistance from team members.
- Respects the College’s rich heritage and historical achievements by embracing important changes that advance the College’s mission while honoring the past.
- Exercises discretion and forethought in the efficient utilization of organizational resources, showing respect for the organization’s generous benefactors and supporters.
Leadership & Supervisory: The employee in this position performs most tasks without the consultation of others. Resources, guidelines, or a supervisor is available for consultation as needed. Work is checked largely towards the completion of objectives.
Environment & Working Conditions: Duties are performed in a typical office environment that is clean, well lit, quiet, and temperature controlled.
Physical Demands (including requirements for travel or working nights/weekends/holidays):
- Requires ongoing verbal communication via telephone and in person.
- Sits for long periods of time working at a computer and using a mouse and keyboard.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties of this job.
REQ#501294
Posting Closes: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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Application close: Eastern Daylight Time
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