Administrative Assistant 1

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking an Administrative Assistant 1 to join the team at the Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO). This is a full-time position with a 40-hour work week scheduled Monday-Friday 7:00 am

• 3:30pm with a 30-minute lunch break. We offer a strong opportunity for advancement, growth, and development.

This position serves as the point person for facility safety coordination which includes:

• Facilitating CCUSO Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA)

• Maintaining the Safety$ network computer share by ensuring reports such as HVA, Risk Management, Inspection, and Job Hazard Analysis are completed in a timely manner in compliance with OSHA standards and facility policies.

• Responding to internal and external requests for safety related program information.

• Providing a summary report of all Risk Management Activity to the CMHI Safety/Environment of Care Committee and CCUSO Leadership Team summarizing and trending incident activity monthly.

• Entering relevant data in the CCUSO Dashboard.

• Facilitating CCUSO's annual safety survey process.

• Receiving Phase V Outing requests weekly from the CCUSO Transition Release Program (TRP) patients to create a schedule to be reviewed and approved by the TRP Treatment Team.

• Tracking information received by the CCUSO Director of Operations, CMHI/CCUSO Superintendent, CMHI/CCUSO Assistant Superintendent and other CCUSO staff members to prepare an agenda for the monthly CCUSO Leadership Team meeting.

• Processing patient and staff vendor orders.

• Receiving GPS and rent payments from CCUSO TRP patients each month.

CCUSO provides a secure, long-term, and highly structured setting to treat sexual offenders who have served their prison terms, but, in a separate civil trial, have been found likely to reoffend. The facility provides state-of-the-art treatment to patients to lower their risk of re-offending and to release them from confinement as quickly as possible. There is a full range of diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitative services focused on addressing the conditions impacting a patient's likelihood of re-offending.

We have a great total compensation package, including:

• Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System (IPERS) (Employee contributes 6.29%/State of Iowa contributes 9.44%)

• Retirement Investors Club (RIC) (Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan) (State of Iowa matches up to $75/month)

• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance (See below for additional information)

• Vacation Leave (96 hours/year to begin, and increases with years of service)

• Sick Leave (144 hours/year)

• Paid Holidays (9 days/year)

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Life Insurance ($20,000 paid for by the State of Iowa)

• Long-Term Disability Insurance

For additional information on benefits click here.

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Cherokee Highlights

CCUSO is located in Cherokee, a city of approximately 5,000 set in the beautiful Little Sioux River Valley in Northwest Iowa. Residents enjoy fishing and canoeing on the Little Sioux River which winds through town providing a backdrop to a well-developed parks and trails system. In addition, Cherokee has over 1,000 acres of land devoted to parks and outdoor activities like camping, hiking, and horseback riding. Cherokee is the home of the first accredited museum and planetarium in Iowa, Sandford Museum and Planetarium, established in 1951. Cherokee may be the smallest town in the world to have its own symphony orchestra! This 60-member orchestra has been referred to as the "best kept secret in Northwest Iowa."

Cherokee is home to Western Iowa Tech Community College and 1 hour or less from other educational institutions including Morningside College, Northwestern College, Buena Vista University, and Dordt College. This quintessential Iowa town is 1 hour from Sioux City and 2 hours from Omaha. Check out these 10 Reasons to Move to Iowa.

The State of Iowa is an EEO/AA Employer

HHS values those with "lived experience" and encourages adults who were fostered as youth, foster parents, and/or parents who were in the DHS system to apply. Minorities, women, persons with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply (Hearing and Speech Impaired

• Relay Iowa 1-800-735-2942 TDD).  

Our agency uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in any field.

• A total of four years of education (as described in number one) and/or full-time experience in accounting, secretarial, or office support work collecting, compiling, reporting, examining and/or editing numerical data; coding and qualifying people for benefits, licenses, or other transactions; preparing and keeping budgetary accounts and projections; organizing and implementing office support operations; advising on procedural processes; or other work that provided direct support and exposure to substantive agency programs, where one year of full-time experience is equal to 30 semester hours of education.

• Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes experience equal to 12 months of full-time work as a Secretary 2, Clerk Specialist, Public Service Supervisor, Accounting Technician (any level), Purchasing Assistant, or Human Resources Technical Assistant

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