Secretary
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Duties
Use office automation software packages and equipment to type, edit, and format letter, reports, manuscripts, charts, etc.
Maintain the supervisors calendar; schedules and reschedules appointments and meetings based on personal knowledge of supervisor’s workload and importance.
Maintain control of incoming correspondence and action documents and follows up on work in progress to ensure timely reply or action.
Receive visitors and telephone calls and direct appropriately based on nature of call or business.
Coordinate management team meetings, including developing the agenda, taking and distributing notes, keeping a file of action items and tracking progress.
Type documents from draft into final form, ensuring accuracy with format, spelling, grammar and punctuation