Clerk I (B) - Walters Branch

The City of Wichita is NOT an E-Verify Employer.

Distinguishing Features of Work

Examples of Work Performed

• Maintains files of correspondence, forms, reports, and other materials; files material alphabetically, numerically, or by other predetermined classification.
• Picks up, sorts and sends out mail; places material in envelops or packages.
• Assists in proofreading various written materials.
• Repeats computations made by other clerks to check accuracy.
• Performs simple posting to cost, voucher, individual account, or similar subsidiary records.
• Completes tabulations from records at hand and prepares reports of a standardized and routine nature.
• Performs simple arithmetic calculations manually or by using a calculator.
• May deliver materials as required.
• Answers phones and/or receives visitors, providing routine information, taking messages, and/or routing them to appropriate personnel.
• For Library positions, assists customers at a service desk and/or via the telephone, loads library materials on a cart, and arranges materials on shelves as needed.
• For Fire positions, sets up tables and chairs as required for meeting/training configurations, provides support to the Storekeeper in receiving inventory and entering information into appropriate database. Delivers supplies to appropriate fire stations weekly using City vehicle for transportation.
• Dependent upon assignment, position may be required to travel to different work sites throughout the workday. Those positions will require reliable personal transportation.
• These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive. Other related duties may be assigned as needed.

Requirements of Work

• Ability to deal tactfully and courteously with other employees and the public.
• Ability to learn, within a short period of time, office practices and procedures.
• Ability to write legibly.
• Ability to learn clerical assignments and develop skill in the operation of office machines within a short period of time.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates, and the public.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
• An employee shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace.
• Ability to perceive pertinent detail in verbal or tabular materials.
• Ability to observe differences in copy, to proofread words and numbers and avoid perception errors in arithmetic.
• Ability to: stand while moving about for up to 8 hours per shift, or stand stationary for up to 2 hours, on carpet, tile or concrete flooring; walk while pushing a loaded book cart weighing up to 250 lbs.; reach, bend, stoop, kneel and squat to arrange materials on shelves; extend arms overhead repetitively to return book, weighing as much as 10 lbs.; repetitively reach across body while handling up to 10 lbs.; and frequently lift to shoulder height, up to 50 lbs. and carry the load up to 5'.

Experience and Training

• Six (6) months of entry level clerical office support work which includes sorting and filing.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need of a sponsorship.

• Attainment of passing scores on pre-employment tests.

Offers of employment are contingent upon passing a pre-employment physical, which includes drug screening, and upon satisfactory evaluation of the results of a criminal record check.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws. Please find more information under the following links:

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/fmlaen.pdf (Download PDF reader)
https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf (Download PDF reader)
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppac.pdf (Download PDF reader)