
Contract Administrative Aide / Parks & Recreation / Special Events Division #9307
Job Description
**The Parks and Rec Special Events division is seeking a highly motivated individual with experience in event coordination and vendor management. The position includes a heavy mix of fieldwork AND administrative duties. This role also requires availability to work weekends and select holidays (including New Year’s Eve and July 4th).**
Key Responsibilities
- Assists with the overseeing the facility; to include the Parks & Recreation catalog, registrations, secretarial duties, answering phones, bookkeeping, computer inputs, processing purchase orders & check requests, inputting work orders and assisting with children's programs when necessary
- Public relation skills, typing, maintenance of records, reservations, calendar scheduling, computer skills, answering phones and operation of all office equipment
- Also responsible for assisting with programming activities and the preparation of PSA's & cash handling skills
- Must be able to deal with the public in a professional manner
- Clerical skills, public relations skills, computer skills, and recreational programming knowledge preferred
- The ability to work with children required for Four Freedoms Park
- The ability to work with persons with developmental disabilities required for Special Populations
- Performs other related duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications
- High School diploma or GED required
- CPR and First Aid certifications required within sixty (60) days of date of hire
Minimum Standards Required
- Tasks are performed in a common office environment, essentially sedentary, with some unassisted lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of light-weight objects up to 20 pounds. Tasks may require prolonged periods of visual concentration or keyboard/mouse use.
- Requires the ability to speak, hear (perceive sound) and/or signal people to convey and exchange information; differentiate between colors or shades of color; read a variety of materials, at times complex; apply principles of rational problem-solving; record and deliver information, explain procedures, issue and follow oral and written instructions; and communicate in Standard English as primary language while performing job duties
**The Parks and Rec Special Events division is seeking a highly motivated individual with experience in event coordination and vendor management. The position includes a heavy mix of fieldwork AND administrative duties. This role also requires availability to work weekends and select holidays (including New Year’s Eve and July 4th).**