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Executive Assistant - RCSD Bilingual

Description of Duties

This position, located at the Rochester City School District (RCSD), is a high level secretarial position involving the
performance of routine administrative business and complex secretarial tasks. Employees serve as secretaries to
administrators at the district’s cabinet level, relieving them of administrative detail. Employees act on behalf of the
administrator in accomplishing administrative business with wide leeway allowed for independent judgment and decision
making. The employee communicates to staff and the public in English and in Spanish verbally and in writing. The
employee reports directly to, and works under the general supervision of an administrator with considerable freedom in
referring and responding to inquiries and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the office. General supervision may be
exercised over a clerical staff.

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates must be permanently employed in the competitive class at the Rochester City School District and must
have served continuously on a permanent basis for twelve (12) months holding the position of Clerk I, Clerk I -
Bilingual, Office Clerk II, Office Clerk II - Bilingual, Legal Secretary, Legal Secretary I, Legal Secretary II, Senior
School Secretary, Senior School Secretary - Bilingual, School Secretary, School Secretary - Bilingual, Secretary I,
Secretary I - Bilingual, Secretary II or Secretary II - Bilingual immediately preceding the date of the written test and
meet the following requirements:

(A) Six (6) years paid full-time or its part-time equivalent** office secretarial experience, two (2) years of which must have
been at a senior* secretarial level; OR,

(B) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with an Associate’s
degree, plus four (4) years paid full-time or its part-time equivalent** office secretarial experience, two (2) years of which
must have been at a senior* secretarial level; OR,

(C) Six (6) years paid full-time or its part-time equivalent** experience composing original communications for public
dissemination; OR,

(D) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with an Associate’s
degree, plus four (4) years paid full-time or its part-time equivalent** experience composing original communications for
public dissemination; OR,

(E) An equivalent combination of education and experience as defined by the limits of (A), (B), (C), and (D) above.

*senior secretarial level experience is defined as duties that include, but are not limited to, composing original
correspondence and reports, leading or supervising other staff, budget preparation and justifications, office management,
proof reading material for sense, independently responding to correspondence, resolving problems, and legal secretarial
work.

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