Senior Clerk at eThekwini Municipality

Job Purpose    

• To perform specific clerical tasks associated with the updating of information associated with road and storm-water maintenance activities.

Key Responsibility Areas    

• Provides support to the Senior Clerk (Administration) in respect of specific administrative/clerical tasks.
• Checks the accuracy of details recorded on transactional documentation and updates work in progress information/data on specific applications/systems of the department.
• Merges, copies and transfers data from applications, formats/generates forms/transactional documentation for approval.
• Inserts, tracks progress and moves or merges fields on databases to maintain records of maintenance contracts.
• Attends to and establishes the nature of enquiries/complaints from the general public or officials etc prior to forwarding to respective Departments/Branches/personnel for attention.
• Performs general clerical tasks/activities and renders support to specific functional areas at the Regional Offices.
• Records discussions, types the minutes of the Branch or technical meetings and forwards to specific personnel for verification.
• Attends to the switchboard and making/receiving telephonic calls and forwards messages and calls to specific personnel/Department or Branches.

Essential Requirements    

• An appropriate level of secondary education.
• 6 Months relevant experience.
• Computer Literacy.

Preferred Requirements    

• Matric/Grade 12.
• 12 Months relevant experience.