R2855 Office Support Technician

Office Support Technician

There is one vacancy with the Yakima County Human Resources Department. This position is responsible for performing office support activities which are defined and governed by strict laws, rules and regulations; serves as a knowledgeable resource to Yakima County staff, job applicants and the general public; receives, logs, tracks, creates and maintains records and documents affecting Yakima County employees and job applicants including operation of human resource management system. This position requires a proficiency test of your knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, and Filing to be taken online. A testing link will be emailed to you, and these tests must be completed within 48 hours of the closing date. Check your email inbox or spam/junk mail for the typing test link from onlinetesting@invitations.testgenius.com.

Benefits included in position:

• Health Care Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life and Basic LTD)
• Retirement Benefits
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Washington Paid Sick Leave

***Note: This is a Non Bargaining position.*** ***This recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies that occur within 90 days of the closing of this position.*** (This excludes Yakima County Sheriff's Office and Department of Corrections)

Responsibilities:

Essential Duties:

• Serves as a knowledgeable resource to Yakima County staff, job applicants and the general public by receiving and responding to a wide variety of information requests in person, on the telephone or via email.
• Responds to requests involving employment records, job applications status, general benefit information and other Human Resources matters as defined for public records requests or refers to appropriate staff member for response.
• Assists the general public and employees in person, via phone or email with completion of employment forms such as: employment applications and related processes, benefit enrollment and change forms.
• Responds to complex financial, insurance and social service agency inquiries for information regarding employment status, benefits and salary calculations as needed.
• Performs data entry into a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and other employment related software and websites for candidate tasks and accounts payable.
• Receives cash and issues receipts for application processing fees and benefits payments.
• Processes weekly deposits using Treasurer Deposit Software.
• Prepares employment files for imaging, validating files for entirety. Completes special projects for imaging of current personnel files.
• Prepares and organizes office, employee, and recruitment files for archiving.
• Maintains personnel files, office files and other file systems and databases.
• Creates employment and job files for each recruitment as directed; closes job files.
• Prepares job announcements and distributes. Gathers historical information for employment related research projects and requests for public disclosure.
• Purges files in accordance to established retention schedules.
• Maintains, updates, and replenishes forms/booklets and collates orientation packets as needed.
• Formats, reviews and maintains