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Administrative Assistant 5

Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts seeks applicants for Administrative Assistant 5. The ideal candidate will possess the following:

Core Competencies:

• Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.
• Demonstrating Accountability: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.
• Managing Resources: The ability to ensure resources such as time, money, and people are utilized appropriately to result in maximum business value.

Preferred Competencies:

• Acting with Ethics and Integrity: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.
• Adapting to Change: The ability to adjust plans, expectations, and behaviors in response to change.
• Displaying Professionalism: The ability to recognize how your actions impact the perceptions of both you and your organization.
• Managing Time: The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.
• Valuing Diversity: The ability to develop an awareness of DEIBA challenges and craft personal plans that contribute to improving organizational cultures and environments.

Minimum Qualifications: Four years of experience in administrative services. EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION: Every 15 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will be credited as six months of experience.

Job Specification: The official job specifications for this role can be found here.

Job Duties and Other Information: Performs and supervises administrative support activities. Serves as executive support to department advisors and decision-makers, including administrators and boards/committees. Reviews correspondence and receives telephone calls related to the most sensitive and confidential matters and determines appropriate action to be taken. Prepares materials needed for meetings, such as agendas, handouts, binders, etc. May attend meetings and transcribe minutes. The successful applicant must pass a fingerprint background and drug screening. How to Apply: No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy. To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page. Information to support your eligibility for this job title must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. Contact Information: For more information about this position, contact the LSMSA HR team at ...@LSMSA.edu or 318-###-####.

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity to make a difference through public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career. As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at Parental Leave Up to six weeks paid parental leave More information can be found at Holidays and Leave State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

• New Year's Day
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
• Mardi Gras,
• Good Friday,
• Memorial Day,
• Independence Day,
• Labor Day,
• Veteran's Day,
• Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor. State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase. Retirement State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

• Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org)
• Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org)
• Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

Additional information on the ability to act with ethics and integrity, adapt to change, and communicate effectively can be found in the supplemental information above.