Job Title: Administrative Assistant/Office Manager
Location: Columbia, MD (on-site)
Hours: Part time, 24 hours per week (to start, with potential to develop into full-time) – flexible schedule during the weekdays
Pay: $24/hour
Benefits: Vision and dental insurance (day 1), health insurance (day 60), options for long/short term disability, accident insurance, critical illness, and life insurance.
Type of Hire: Temp to Hire
Description:This position is an administrative assistance / office manager for an independent insurance agency. Essential Job Functions:
- Performs general secretarial tasks including, but not limited to, typing, maintaining records, logs and databases; scanning documents, managing electronic files, distributing mail, etc.
- Answers telephone communications, forwards to appropriate individuals and / or records messages
- Communicates in a positive and effective manner with staff, customers and other 3rd parties
- Other duties as assigned
Examples of Work:
- Greets onsite visitors and responds to general customer inquiries
- Sorts and distributes mail to the appropriate individual
- Answers the telephone, assists customers, forwards to the appropriate individual, and documents written and oral messages
- Compiles and maintains data, customer / insurance policy records within agency’s management system
- Runs daily, weekly and monthly reports
- Sets up action items / tasks for appropriate individuals
- Processes, distributes and stores certificates of insurance
- Provides customer outreach for payment and documentation assistance / reminders
- Operates computer and other office equipment
- Inventories, receives, and issues supplies
One year of general office experience. Must be able to type at a productive rate of speed.