Office Assistant (KD-48793)

CLOSING DATE:    September  8,2026
POSITION:     Office Assistant
SALARY:    $20.34-$21.32, per hour
REPORTS TO:  Office Assistant Senior  
LOCATION:    WSU Extension, Nespelem, WA 

Basic Functions:  This is a Non-Exempt position. Serves as a receptionist and processes customer service-oriented transactions and performs general clerical support, data entry, and related duties, following well-established policies, procedures, and methods. Assignments may support a variety of administrative areas

BENIFITS: We have excellent benefits including full Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k with employer contributions, Short-and Long- Term disability for Full-Time employees. Generous leave package includes paid holidays, sick leave, and annual leave for Full-Time and Part-Time employees.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Training: 

• Typically requires a High School diploma with course work in general office practices and 1 year of experience in a high volume customer service, general clerical, data entry, and production keyboarding environment.  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Requires basic knowledge of modern office practices, procedures and equipment including receptionist and telephone techniques and etiquette.  
• Requires basic knowledge and understanding of methods and procedures used alphanumeric record keeping.  
• Requires basic knowledge of data entry techniques.  
• Requires a working knowledge in the use of common personal computer-based office productivity software such as, but not limited to, word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, and data entry screens for custom databases.  
• Requires sufficient math skills to perform columnar calculations, decimals, fractions, etc.
• Requires sufficient knowledge of English language, grammar, spelling and punctuation to prepare routine correspondence and memoranda.  
• Requires sufficient human relation skills to greet and work cooperatively with internal and external customers. 
• Requires the ability to perform the duties of the position under general supervision. 
• Requires the ability to learn, understand and apply rules, policies, procedures, and terminology used for customer service processes. 
• Requires the ability to use a personal computer for data entry, word processing, and spreadsheets. 
• Requires the ability to operate standard office machines. 
• Must be able to maintain record files and prepare reports on pre-determined formats. 
• Requires the ability to accurately complete tasks and transactions within an environment dominated by interruptions. 
• Requires the ability to work cooperatively with senior citizens.
• Requires the ability to work as contributing member of a team, work productively and cooperatively with other teams and external customers, and convey a positive image of the Tribe. 
• Requires ability to work in a highly stressful environment. 
• Must be able to function indoors engaged in work of primarily a sedentary, yet intermittently active nature. 
• Requires the use of near visual acuity to write and to read printed materials and computer screens. 
• Requires hearing and speech for ordinary and telephonic conversation and to hear sound prompts from equipment. 
• Requires ambulatory ability to sit, often for long periods of time, move about office locations and to reach work materials. 
• Requires manual and finger dexterity to type/keyboard at an acceptable rate, operate pointing device and otherwise operate a microcomputer and other equipment.

Note: Pursuant to Tribal Policy, if this position is safety sensitive it is subject to pre-employment drug testing. In addition, this position is subject to reasonable suspicion and post-accident drug testing.

TRIBAL MEMBER AND INDIAN PREFERENCE WILL APPLY; PREFERENCE WILL ALSO BE GIVEN TO HONORABLY DISCHARGED VETERANS WHO ARE MINIMALLY QUALIFIED.

If required of this position, you must possess and maintain a valid Washington State driver’s license and be eligible for the Tribes’ Vehicle Insurance.  In addition, this position may be subject to pre-employment background clearances.  If applicable, these clearances must be maintained throughout employment.

INFORMATION: Kabrina Desautel, HR Technician Senior, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Human Resources Office, P.O. Box 150, Nespelem, WA 99155, (509) 634-2028. [email protected]