Administrative Support Supervisor
DESCRIPTION OF WORK:
The primary purpose of the position in this banded class is to function as a supervisor over a group of
administrative support positions. The role requires recurring use and oversight of technical skills found in the group
supervised. The group supervised may perform administrative or specialized support functions.
EXAMPLES OF COMPETENCIES:
CONTRIBUTING:
- Planning and Organizing: Plans and assigns daily work to employees in accordance with established methods, procedures, and deadlines. Monitors daily work giving instructions to employees
- Budgeting: Operates within assigned budget.
- Training: Models work/job duties for employees. Provides on-the-job training for all staff in the basic techniques and procedures required to complete the assigned work. Evaluates individual progress and repeats training as necessary.
- Managing Work Processes: Explains and applies work rules, standards, and guidelines.
Provides input into establishing work standards, guidelines, and procedures.
- Managing Work and Performance: Monitors work of staff, closely and ongoing, to assess and problem-solve. Reviews performance on a daily basis and provides suggestions and gives instructions for improving work.
- Interpersonal Skills: Communicates effectively to employees in the unit to relay information from higher-level management.
- Other HR Functions: Reviews applications and develops interview questions and conducts interviews with higher level manager. Develops work plans and conducts performance reviews with higher manager. Recommends approval of leave
based on work load of the unit. Resolves minor problems and complaints on an informal basis. Identifies more serious problems and brings to attention of appropriate authority.
JOURNEY
- Planning and Organizing: Plans daily or weekly work to meet established objectives.
Establishes deadlines and priorities of regular work assignments of the unit over a short-range period. Assesses the needs of the unit and recommends or makes minor changes in workflow, procedures, or assignments to accommodate changing priorities.
- Budgeting: Researches potential expenditures and provides data to higher management.
- Training: Determines need for formal training to supplement on-the-job training, identifies external sources for training, recommends expenditures for training to management, and allocates time for completion of training.
- Managing Work Processes: Works with manager to assess work standards, internal
operating procedures, guidelines, and utilization of resources. Determines applicability of standards in unusual situations.
- Managing Work and Performance: Reviews work of staff upon completion to assess and problem solve. Reviews accomplishments of the unit over a short-range period to insure that performance and service meet the required
standards.
- Interpersonal Skills: Motivates and encourages employees through the explanation of changing priorities, organization, or processes.
- Other HR Functions: Participates with manager in the establishment of criteria for screening of applicants, conducts interviews, and recommends selection to management. Develops work plans and conducts performance review of staff, subject to higher level review. Approves routine leave requests. Counsels employees informally regarding job performance or personal conduct as needed. Recommends disciplinary action to higher authority.