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Mail Clerk - Revised Requirements

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Job Title: Mail Clerk - Revised Requirements
Location: Mail Services
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 5051
Staff Posting Details
Appointment: Regular, full-time (1.0 FTE) position

Position Summary:

This mail clerk sorts incoming and outgoing mail and provides customer services, including over-the-counter stamp sales, mailing parcels, accepting delivery and transmitting facsimile message processing. Processes delivery of mail, packages and other services to students, faculty, and staff.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

  • Deliver student incoming and outgoing mail.
  • Process incoming and outgoing parcels.
  • Process outgoing departmental mail on Connect + 3000 meter machine.
  • Conduct over the counter stamp sales.
  • Process facsimile messages.
  • Answer phone and in person questions regarding the status of student, faculty and staff mail.
  • Research incorrectly addressed mail for correct addressing and reroute mail to the correct address.
  • Distribute and collect campus mail.
  • Deliver packages to departments via golf cart.
  • Forward mail for students who have graduated, are on study abroad, or leave of absence.
  • Lift, carry, push and pull items one to 50 pounds on a regular basis.
  • Sit and Stand on a regular basis.
  • Execute cashier transactions, including giving change and counting the till.
  • Make daily deposits.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Supervise work-study students

Budget Responsibilities

None

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability to understand complex Postal Service, Federal Express, and United Parcel Service procedures, rates, and regulations
  • Ability to lift 50 pounds
  • Ability to use personal computers, telephones, fax equipment, calculators, and mail metering equipment
  • Ability to respectfully work, communicate, and provide leadership within a diverse campus community
Qualifications:

  • High School diploma or G.E.D
  • Customer service and cash handling experience highly desired
  • 1 year of relevant experience preferred
Compensation and Benefits: Decisions about starting salaries are made based on the extent and relatedness of the candidate's education and experience and on internal equity and market considerations.

This position is non-exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Puget Sound offers a generous benefits package. For more information, visit: http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/offices-services/human-resources/overview-of-university-benefit/.

Application Deadline: Interested individuals are encouraged to submit application materials no later than October 1, 2019 to ensure consideration.

Required Documents:

    ResumeCover Letter
All offers of employment are contingent on successful completion of a background inquiry and if applicable for the position, drug screen, physical test and functional assessment.

Diversity Statement:

    We acknowledge the richness of commonalities and differences we share as a university community; the intrinsic worth of all who work and study here; that education is enhanced by investigation of and reflection upon multiple perspectives.We aspire to create respect for and appreciation of all persons as a key characteristic of our campus community; to increase the diversity of all parts of our University community through commitment to diversity in our recruitment and retention efforts; to foster a spirit of openness to active engagement among all members of our campus community.We act to achieve an environment that welcomes and supports diversity; to ensure full educational opportunity for all who teach and learn here; to prepare effectively citizen-leaders for a pluralistic world.
Puget Sound is committed to an environment that welcomes and supports diversity. We seek diversity of identity, thought, perspective, and background in our students, faculty, and staff. To learn more please visit: http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/diversity-at-puget-sound/

The University of Puget Sound is an equal opportunity employer.


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Organization

Working at University of Puget Sound

The University of Puget Sound is an independent residential undergraduate liberal arts college with selected graduate programs building effectively on a liberal arts foundation. The University, as a community of learning, maintains a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly engagement, and fruitful student-faculty interaction.

The mission of the University is to develop in its students capacities for critical analysis, aesthetic appreciation, sound judgment, and apt expression that will sustain a lifetime of intellectual curiosity, active inquiry, and reasoned independence. A Puget Sound education, both academic and co-curricular, encourages a rich knowledge of self and others, an appreciation of commonality and difference, the full, open, and civil discussion of ideas, thoughtful moral discourse, and the integration of learning, preparing the University's graduates to meet the highest tests of democratic citizenship. Such an education seeks to liberate each person's fullest intellectual and human potential to assist in the unfolding of creative and useful lives.

The University of Puget Sound campus offers a unique blend of ingredients for immersing yourself in learning: the unparalleled scenery of the Pacific Northwest, traditional Tudor-Gothic architecture, leafy enclaves for quiet study, and common areas infused with an indisputable energy. The campus is just minutes away from downtown Tacoma, with its revitalized waterfront, thriving arts and culture scene, and an eclectic mix of retail shops and restaurants.

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