
Administrative Specialist II - Joel D. Valdez Main Library
Tucson, AZJob$50–59K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Pima County Public Library seeks an Administrative Specialist II to support personnel functions across its 27 library locations. The role provides specialized support in recruitment, payroll, employee records, and personnel processes, working with employees and supervisors. It requires reporting to and traveling between assigned library locations during the workday. The posting lists an annual hiring range of $49,878–$58,635 and a full pay range of $49,878–$67,371.
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This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/7649531 Department - County Free Library \ Job Type: Classified Job Classification: 5671 - Administrative Specialist II Salary Grade: 8 Pay Range Hiring Range: $49,878 - $58,635 Annually Pay Range: $49,878 - $67,371 Annually Range Explanation: - Hiring Range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity. - Pay Range is the entire compensation range for the position. Join the Pima County Public Library Personnel Team! Pima County Public Library is seeking an Administrative Specialist II to join our team to support department personnel functions throughout the department. This position provides specialized support in areas such as recruitment, payroll, employee records, and personnel processes while working closely with employees and supervisors across our 27 library locations. If you are organized, detail-oriented, customer-focused, and enjoy supporting people and improving processes, we encourage you to apply. This position requires the ability to report to, and travel between, assigned library locations during the workday within a reasonable timeframe. Essential Functions: As defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this classification may include any of the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents of this class. Work assignments may vary depending on the departments need and will be communicated to the applicant or incumbent by the supervisor. - Provides complex administrative services of a specialized nature to a department, division, or program within Pima County; - Negotiates and establishes Intergovernmental Agreements (IGA), contracts and other obligatory agreements and monitors compliance; - Prepares work unit budgets, oversees expenditures, performs cost and statistical analyses and prepares reports and recommendations; - Performs research, prepares written reports and recommendations and informs management of issues, concerns and problems of specialized work unit; - Provides information, status, and recommendations to department directors, division managers and professional staff regarding area of assignment and responds to public inquiries interpreting work unit and county policies and procedures; - Ensures work unit policies, procedures and activities comply with applicable federal/state statutes and regulations and county policy; - Oversees internal services such as accounting, payroll, personnel, management information services and/or purchasing; - Represents work unit at various meetings, conferences, or on committees and provides specialized expertise related to area of assignment; - Develops, maintains and manages databases using automated information systems and compiles/reviews/monitors information for reporting purposes. Minimum Qualifications: Associates degree from an accredited college or university in one of the following disciplines: public administration, business administration, management, or a closely related field as determined by the department head at the time of recruitment AND one year of professional experience in public or business administration. (Relevant experience and/or education from an accredited college or university may be substituted.) OR: One year with Pima County as an Administrative Specialist I or closely related professional administrative classification. Qualifying educatio and experience must be clearly documented in the "Education" and "Work Experience" sections of the application. Do not substitute a resume for your application or write "see resume" on your application.\ \ Preferred Qualifications: (Be specific in describing your experience in your application. Ensure the descriptions provided illustrate your competencies, specifically addressing the required and preferred qualifications.): - Minimum one (1) year experience coordinating multiple personnel projects or assignments, including prioritizing competing tasks, tracking deadlines, and ensuring accuracy. {=html} - Minimum one (1) year experience working with payroll, timekeeping, benefits, all types of leave and/or employee data in a public-sector or large organizational environment. Minimum one (1) year experience supporting recruitment and selection processes, incl
How this job compares
Set against the 614 open Payroll jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$50–59K/yr
- US median$80–120K/yr220 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $54K, is 45% below the US median midpoint ($98K) — in the lowest quarter of Payroll salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 13 open Payroll jobs in Arizona and 614 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Payroll postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 465 postings).
- Education
- 148 of the 614 open Payroll jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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