Anticipated Senior Typist - 12 Month Position

The Binghamton City School District is seeking candidates to fill an anticipated Senior Typist position for the 2025-2026 school year.

The BCSD offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits.

This is a full-time contractual position working 7.5 hours per day, 260 days per year. The work involves responsibility for the performance of a variety of clerical tasks involving the full-time operation of a computer. The work may require a general understanding of specific law and organizational rules, procedures, and policies.

To be considered for this opening, applicants must be:

• Currently, on the Civil Service eligible list for the title, or
• Currently appointed to the title, or
• Eligible to take the exam for the title when it becomes available

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Types of correspondence, memorandum, and statement form: copy, rough draft, or oral presentations
• Works on special projects such as annual employee picnics and award dinners.
• Types, processes, reviews, and files requisitions, vouchers, time sheets, bills, and receipts.
• Works independently on projects such as processing accounts payable, maintaining records on capital equipment purchases, dealing with vendors on incomplete, unfilled, or incorrect charges, preparing corrections on purchase orders or computer data, civil service, and employment records and procedures.
• Types, issues, and maintains a record of applications, permits, and licenses.
• Maintains computerized filing and indexing systems.
• Maintains personnel records and prepares payroll adjustments
• Types, processes, reviews, and files a variety of control and operational records and reports.
• Answers the telephone to arrange appointments or to answer routine questions.
• Maintains a record or ledger of salaries, purchases, and contractual expenditures.
• May assign, train, and review the work performed by subordinate clerical employees and prepare work schedules.
• May instruct employees in the specialized clerical work of the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

a) Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma, including or supplemented by a course in typing and one year of clerical experience involving the operation of a computer.
b) Two years of clerical experience, which shall have involved typing.
c) An equivalent combination of training and experience within the limits of all the above.