An Administrative Technician provides a full range of administrative support to different city activities. Under supervision, incumbents assist with budget preparation and monitoring, personnel hiring, purchasing activities, program administration and research activities. This class is distinguished from Administrative Analyst in that the latter is a professional level class with responsibility for assisting a major office or department of the city, or for coordinating a municipal program while this class provides technical support to managers responsible for the programs. In addition to the duties listed in the Essential Duties Section, each employee in this classification may perform the following duties. Any single position may not be assigned all the duties listed below, nor do the examples cover all duties which may be assigned.
Verbal communication is conducted face to face and on the telephone.
Incumbents read and comprehend written material and make inferences from the contents. A computer keyboard is used to enter and retrieve data. Some assignments may include evening and weekend work.