Extra-Help Special Projects Coordinator bei Merced County, CA

About the Department

This recruitment is being established to obtain a current eligible list for Extra-Help vacancies. Extra-Help are not entitled to county benefits and are limited to 25 hours a week. 

Desirable Experience:

Financial record keeping experience which including experience handling payroll related duties

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:
 

• Supervise and manage staff as required.
   
• Plan, design and implement systems.
   
• Modify existing systems in response to changes in the County's operational environment and/or regulatory changes.
   
• Act as liaison with other departments affected by systems changes.
   
• Provide system specifications and monitors the testing of the new or revised programs.
  
  
• Recommend changes to County policies and procedures if necessary to optimize the efficiencies of the Department's services.
   
• Perform all duties required to complete assigned project or systems changes.
   
• These duties may include but are not limited to: general administrative, fiscal, program, and data processing system analysis.
   
• Gather, tabulate, and analyze data.
   
• Interview and consult with departmental officials, employees and others to give and receive information.
   
• Provide training and technical assistance to other staff.

Position Duties

Experience:
At least five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in the system for which the specific department is requesting.

Education:
Formal, advanced educational training in system of expertise is highly desirable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Frequent operation of personal computer and other modern office equipment.
   
• Communicate effectively with others in person, in writing, and over the telephone.
   
• Analyze data, interpret policies, procedures and regulations, develop appropriate conclusions, and prepare reports.
   
• Meet deadlines under stressful conditions.
   
• Resolve conflicts and respond appropriately to complaints.
   
• Complete multiple priority projects with conflicting deadlines.
   
• Maintain confidential information in accordance with legal standards and/or County regulations.
   
• Make presentations.
   
• Train staff.
   
• Repetitive motion, sitting for long periods, walking.
   
• Occasional standing, pushing, pulling, bending, squatting, climbing.
   
• Lifting – Frequently 5 pounds or less; occasionally 5 to 30 pounds.
   
• Constant good overall vision and reading and close-up work.
   
• Frequent color perception and use of eye/hand coordination.
   
• Occasional use of depth perception and peripheral vision.
   
• Normal dexterity with frequent writing.
   
• Frequent hearing of normal speech, hearing/talking on the telephone, talking in person.
  
  
• Frequent decision making, concentration, and public contact.
   
• Some assignments may require working weekends, nights, and/or occasional overtime.
   
• Occasional exposure to noise; occasional contact with dirt, dust, indoor cold and heat.
  
  
• Regular attendance is an essential function.

• Data processing techniques and capabilities.
   
• Data analysis and program planning and evaluation.
   
• Principles of public fiscal administration.
   
• Principles of staff management, supervision, and training.
   
• Organization and functions of the various County departments and political subdivisions.
   
• Political legislative processes.
   
• Codes, regulations, ordinances and laws governing the operations of the County and other governmental entities.

• Plan, design, and implement complex automated systems.
   
• Analyze, develop and/or modify procedures and systems.
   
• Establish project development schedules and coordinate the effort of affected staff activities to attained desired goals and objectives.
   
• Evaluate manual work assignments and work flows to determine if cost effective automated alternatives could be implemented.