Office Assistant

Office Assistant at University of Houston

Department: Central Facility Services

Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education

Provides clerical office support to office staff by performing diverse duties such as word processing, typing, filing and preparing department expenditure documents. May check and guide work of lower-level office personnel. Performs a variety of office duties, which typically include one or more of the following:

• Preparing financial/expenditure documents for the department, maintaining financial/expenditure files, and following up on vendor inquiries.
• Ordering supplies, maintaining supplies and periodically taking inventory.
• Typing a variety of forms and correspondence from rough notes and drafts.
• Sorting and distributing incoming mail, receiving mail deliveries and routing it to appropriate faculty and staff.
• Assisting in calculating balances of departmental budget accounts.
• Operating the fax machine and copier.
• Inputting data into a centralized computer terminal.
• Maintaining departmental files to ensure that all records are updated and modified as necessary.
• Performing other job‑related duties as assigned.

Minimum qualifications: Requires a basic knowledge of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and simple mathematical functions such as percentages and ratios. Minimum of 1 year of directly job‑related experience. Requires a criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity

Employer:

The University of Houston System and its universities are Equal Opportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.

Location: Houston, TX