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Job Description
Pay Range: $54,879 - $71,343/annually
Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm - 100% working in division office; Field Operations is a 24/7 Operation - weekend and after hour work may be required. This role requires proactive and dependable individuals who can quickly adapt to changing conditions and respond efficiently.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
The City of Fort Worth Water Department is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Administrative Assistant to join our Field Operations Division. As the largest division in the Water Department, Field Operations is a vital function responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the City’s infrastructure. Our division operates 24/7, and this role is critical to ensuring the smooth daily operations that keep Fort Worth’s water systems functioning seamlessly.
As a Senior Administrative Assistant, you will play an essential role in supporting the leadership team of the Field Operations Division. This key position involves being a senior lead in administrative functions, human resources activities, managing budgetary tasks, and executing special projects that contribute to the overall success of the department. Instrumental in ensuring the division runs smoothly by maintaining adherence to established policies and procedures, while consistently upholding high-quality standards. This role offers a dynamic and collaborative work environment. The ideal candidate must demonstrate a positive attitude, be a team player, possess a strong work ethic, have exceptional attention to detail, and show a proactive approach to problem-solving. This position offers robust opportunities for skill development: begin with a 6-month probationary period mastering foundational tasks, then expand your expertise in budget management, HR coordination, and staff development over time.
The Senior Administrative Assistant job responsibilities include:
- Prioritizing and Assigning Work: Assist in overseeing daily team operations by ensuring that tasks are effectively prioritized and assigned to staff. This includes assigning responsibilities based on workload and team strengths, ensuring operational goals are met.
- HR & Payroll: Lead recruitment and onboarding efforts, ensuring a smooth and welcoming experience for new hires, including conducting tours, introducing them to the team, and providing payroll training. Oversee bi-weekly payroll corrections, ensuring accuracy and compliance with department standards.
- Office & Records: Keep the office operations running efficiently by ensuring organized workspaces for new team members, and maintaining confidential and accurate records. As a lead Human Resource Coordinator, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and maintain up-to-date, organized files.
- Budget & Purchasing: Assist with division budgeting, supporting the development and presentation of financial plans to leadership. You will help recommend adjustments to meet financial goals, as well as assist with P-card reconciliations, and other financial tasks.
- Programs & Training: Coordinate important programs, taking them from planning to successful execution. Facilitate engaging training and team-building sessions, leveraging your research, organizational, and presentation skills to foster team development and collaboration. Making conference travel arrangements for division employees.
- Job Fairs: Take a central role in planning and executing department and organization-wide events, including managing space setup, preparing materials, and ensuring memorable experiences for job seekers and new hires during onboarding.
- Support & Systems: Offer coaching to managers on performance issues, providing recommendations for strategies to improve accountability and enhance team dynamics. Master tools such as Questica and advanced Excel to streamline workflows, while delivering exceptional customer service to internal and external stakeholders.
- Other Duties as Assigned: As a key member of the administration team, you’ll support high level support on administrative tasks and special projects as needed to ensure the success and continued improvement of the Field Operations Division.
If you're ready to contribute your skills and expertise in a high-impact role, we invite you to apply and become an integral part of the City of Fort Worth Water Department!
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in public administration, business administration, human resources, or related field
- Three (3) years of increasingly responsible administrative and fiscal budget management experience in support of a department, division, or major service area
- One (1) year in a supervisory or lead capacity.
- Strong organization, time management, attention to detail, follow-through., and interpersonal skills.
- Communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bilingual Skills
- Five (5) years of increasingly responsible administrative and fiscal experience role.
- Two (2) years’ experience with Questica or similar budgeting software.
- Experience with record keeping and tracking
- Proficient skills using Microsoft Word and Excel
- Experience in research, present, and solve problems effectively, event planning and process improvement experience a plus.
Physical Demands:
Sedentary Work - Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands:
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing and balancing..
Sedentary Work - Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Apply Now! Come be part of something special in Fort Worth.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only. -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Fort Worth
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The City of Cowboys & Culture is known for its Texas hospitality. The stunning and sprawling City of
Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. And it’s no wonder — With great neighborhoods, scenic terrain and a rich history of arts and culture, paired with world-class opportunities for business and education, it’s not only fun to visit Fort Worth, it’s even more rewarding to call it home.Fort Worth truly offers all the benefits and amenities of a bustling metropolitan city, while keeping the small- town charm that keeps it unpretentious and charismatic in all the right ways. Designated as one of America’s “Most Livable Communities” by the Partners for Livable Communities, the city truly offers a melting pot of culture, commerce, community and yes, cowboys.
There are over a dozen remarkable districts full of treasured history among modern luxuries and unique places to have fun, making it the No. 1 tourist destination in Texas and welcoming more than 9.4 million visitors annually.
Being one of the fastest-growing among large cities in the country, Fort Worth has received multiple accolades, including number one downtown (Livability), and the second-best City in the nation for job seekers (Forbes). Our employees serve the needs of over 900,000 residents representing culturally diverse communities.
Exciting Growth & Future Development
One of the most fascinating aspects of the City of Fort Worth is its almost unprecedented growth over the past several years. Both in terms of population and industry, and as the 12th largest city in the United States, Fort Worth is truly booming — which presents both challenges and opportunities to truly develop this city in the right way. Every 30 minutes a new person moves to Fort Worth, so we’re looking for candidates who can embrace an evergrowing and changing environment and improve on it with solutions that work for the entire community of Fort Worth.
Mission
We are working together to build a strong community that others can look to as a pillar of unity and excellence. Through grassroots efforts within the community, and large scale construction and transportation plans that continue to add the infra- structure a growing city like Fort Worth needs, we’ll provide the public services our community requires to continually cultivate the unique city we call home.
Vision
Fort Worth’s vision is to be the most livable and best managed city in the country. We’ll do this by taking care of our citizens, implementing the highest quality standards in our schools, continually improving the neighborhoods we thrive in and the facets of the city that make our town so unique.
Benefits That Are Well Worth It
The City of Fort Worth continues to be dedicated to its employees’ well-being by providing competitive health benefits, a well-rounded wellness program and a Zero Accident Philosophy® workplace. All regular full-time employees and those employees who work 30–39 hours per week are eligible for all City of Fort Worth Benefits. Part-time employees who work 20–29 hours per week are eligible for dental, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, flexible spending accounts, 457 Deferred Compensation plan and other voluntary benefits.
Medical Program
The City offers two plan options through Meritain Health, an Aetna company.
The Health Center Plan – Offers employees and their family’s
primary health care services that are 100% completely free and unlimited. Employees can visit any one of the three City of Fort Worth Employee Health Centers and receive guaranteed same or next day appointments for sick visits. Also, services are available at any one of the five satellite locations that serves employees across the city.
The Consumer Choice Plan – Is offered to employees at no cost or low monthly premiums to cover eligible dependents and provides the financial benefits of a Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Preventative services are covered at 100% on both plans.
• Prescription Drug coverage including mail order pharmacy are also included.Vacation
Eligible for 3 weeks of vacation: After successful completion of probationary period (usually
6 months), employees may take time off for rest, relaxation, vacation, illness, religious observances, and personal business.Holidays
Available on the first day of employment, the city provides employees with paid holidays, including two personal holidays.
Wellness Program
The city’s Healthy Challenge Wellness Program rewards all full-time, benefit-eligible employees on the city’s health insurance. The Healthy Challenge Program utilizes a points system. Participants may earn points throughout the year (Jan. 1-Dec. 15) for completing specific program activities and participants can redeem points at the end of the year for a cash reward. By participating, individuals can earn $150, $200 or $250 by accumulating program points.
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