EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 2 - OFFICE OF CHIEF OF STAFF - DAVIDSON - 75849

Executive Service

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Job Overview:

This classification is responsible for professional staff work of average to complex difficulty in relieving an Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, or Commissioner of administrative detail. An employee in this class may perform liaison, public contact, public relations, and/or other administrative assistance work. This work often requires an incumbent to handle difficult decisions, personal contacts, and staff analysis. This classification may directly supervise subordinate positions. This class differs from that of an Executive Admin Assistant 3 in that an incumbent of the latter performs work of greater scope and/or complexity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides executive level administrative support to an Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, or Commissioner.
• Maintains the executive's calendar and travel arrangements.
• Acts as liaison to the Governor's office, legislative officials, state agencies, and other entities.
• Continues personal contacts involving discussion and interpretation of policies, rules, and regulations.
• Provides input on the development of new policies and practices.
• May be responsible for managing communication/staffing processes, contracts/grants, and special projects.
• Performs varied staff analyses such as policy analysis, organizational analysis, facilities analysis, and program analysis.
• Prepares and maintains a variety of confidential records and reports of average to complex difficulty.
• May supervise and evaluate subordinate staff and their work.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of full-time professional staff administrative experience or related work

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.