<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>*This recruitment is for internal use for the Department of Social Services. This posting will remain open until the needs of the department are met and is subject to closure without prior notice.*</strong></div><br>Under direct supervision in a learning capacity, to assist with the routine technical or professional work in an assigned County department; and to perform other duties as required.<br><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">DISTINGUISING CHARACTERISTICS<br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"></strong>This is a trainee class in the unclassified service.  Work is supervised while in progress and fits an established structure or pattern where incumbents may be expected to perform standardized procedures of limited complexity.   Exceptions or changes in procedures are explained in detail as they arise.<br><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Student Assistant positions/employment work assignments must correspond to the student’s declared field of study. No part-time or full-time, permanent appointments will be made. Assists in the performance of beginning level technical or professional duties in an assigned department; gathers, analyzes, records, and tabulates data; prepares correspondence, records, reports, charts, graphs or narrative statements of explanation; makes special studies and prepares reports on assigned projects; provides information regarding policies, procedures, and processes related to the assigned department.<br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">OTHER JOB RELATED DUTIES<br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"></strong>Performs related duties and responsibilities as assigned.<strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Knowledge of:</strong><ul style="margin-top: 0.0px;padding-left: 40.0px;color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><li>English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.<li>Basic mathematical principles.</ul><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Skill to:</strong><ul style="margin-top: 0.0px;padding-left: 40.0px;color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><li>Operate a motor vehicle safely.  <li>Operate modern office equipment including computer equipment.</ul><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Ability to:</strong><ul style="margin-top: 0.0px;padding-left: 40.0px;color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><li>Learn principles of business letter writing and basic report preparation.<li>Learn to plan, organize and carry out activities in an assigned area.<li>Learn to keep accurate, concise and appropriate records and reports.<li>Learn and utilize computerized software programs in an assigned area.<li>Learn and utilize ordinances, rules, laws, and regulations governing the assigned area.<li>Research and analyze information.<li>Deal tactfully and courteously with the public and other County staff when providing information.<li>Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.<li>Maintain confidentiality of records and information in an assigned area.<li>Establish, maintain, and foster positive and harmonious working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.</ul><strong>Education & Training:</strong><br>Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities would be qualifying.  A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills, and abilities would be:<br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><strong>Experience:</strong><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"></strong>No experience is necessary.<br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Education:</strong><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Must be full-time high school student or enrolled in more than twenty (20) hours per week in an Adult School to obtain a GED. Students under the age of eighteen (18) must obtain a work permit from their school.<br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><em style="color: inherit;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">*All students will be required to submit proof of enrollment prior to and during employment as a Student Assistant. If hired or employed during school breaks (e.g. Winter, Spring and Summer break), the Student Assistant will be required to show proof of enrollment by the second week subsequent to the beginning of the next term.</em><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><strong>License or Certificate:</strong><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"></strong><em>Depending upon area of assignment</em>, some positions may require possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid California Class “C” Driver’s license.<br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Special Requirements:</strong><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Depending upon area of assignment, the essential duties require the following physical skills and work environment:<br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;"><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0.0px;">Ability to work in a standard office environment including the ability to sit, stand, walk, kneel, crouch, stoop, squat, twist, and lift 25 lbs.