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Administrative Specialist I - Community & Workforce Development

Pima County Government

Tucson, AZJob$21.76–25.56/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$21.76–25.56/hr
Location
Tucson, AZ
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Pima County’s Community & Workforce Development Department is recruiting an Administrative Specialist I for its Operations Team. The role provides administrative and fiscal support, assists with financial and procurement operations, and helps ensure accuracy and compliance with established policies and procedures. The department serves vulnerable populations and minors, and employment requires fingerprint clearance and background checks.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Administrative SupportFiscal SupportFinancial OperationsProcurement OperationsAccounting DocumentationDatabase ManagementData AnalysisReport PreparationBudget Monitoring

Qualifications

Associate's in Public Administration, Business Administration, Management, or Related Field or Relevant Experience or EducationOne Year as Administrative Assistant III or Related ClassificationLevel One Fingerprint Clearance CardCriminal History Self Disclosure AffidavitCentral Registry Background Check

Full job description

This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/7649515 Department - Community & Workforce Development \ Job Type: Classified Job Classification: 5754 - Administrative Specialist I Salary Grade: 6 Pay Range Hiring Range: $21.76 - $25.56 Per Hour Pay Range: $21.76 - $29.36 Per Hour\ 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. {=html} - Pay Range is the entire compensation range for the position. Community Workforce & Development (CWD) is recruiting to fill the position of Administrative Specialist I, which is part of the CWD Operations Team. CWD provides services to at least 30,000 individuals a year. It is funded with multiple federal, state, and local grants as well as the County general fund. The position duties include providing administrative and fiscal support to the operations team, assisting with daily financial and procurement operations, and ensuring accuracy and compliance with established policies and procedures. Community & Workforce Development Department works with vulnerable populations and minors. A Level one Fingerprint Clearance Card, a Criminal History Self Disclosure Affidavit, and a Central Registry background check are requirements for employment. 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. - Coordinates unit activity with other departmental sections/divisions and other County departments or outside agencies directly or through assigned staff, and acts as an internal departmental coordinator for support activities such as personnel, purchasing, payroll, or program specific functions; - Responds to public and staff inquiries and provides information or resolves problems which require explanation or application of departmental or program rules and policies, or refers questions to appropriate staff; - Represents unit/department on various committees and working groups and may be granted authority to commit unit/department support to issues; - Coordinates, schedules and organizes unit, program, or departmental calendars and meetings; - Leads and participates in the preparation and processing of accounting documentation such as requisitions, purchase orders, claims and fund transfers; - Creates, maintains, and/or directs the maintenance of specialized databases including inputting and retrieving data and producing complex computer-based reports; - Coordinates and monitors standard departmental Intergovernmental Agreements (IGA), contracts, and other obligatory agreements with affected agencies, contractors and service providers; - Researches, compiles and performs initial analysis of information, and prepares routine, recurring and special reports, correspondence, memoranda, personnel forms, operations manuals and other documents for supervisory review and approval; - Compiles and summarizes statistical and operational data, and prepares periodic and special reports; - Compiles information utilized in unit budget preparation, monitors miscellaneous expenditures, and reports to supervisor on program budget activities; - Conducts and documents confid ntial or sensitive inquiries for management and maintains appropriate security and confidentiality of information encountered or created; - Establishes and maintains specialized reference files and reference materials. 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. (Relevant experience and/or education from an accredited college or university may be substituted.) OR: One year with Pima County as an Administrative Assistant III or closely related professional administrative classification. **Qualifying education 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.\ \ **

How this job compares

Set against the 5,241 open Administrative Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$21.76–25.56/hr
  • Arizona median$21–25/hr21 hourly ranges
  • US median$19–27/hr1,713 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $23.66/hr, is 3% above the Arizona median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the middle half of Administrative Support hourly ranges in Arizona.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 79 open Administrative Support jobs in Arizona and 5,241 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Arizona
Experience
Administrative Support postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (2,039 postings).
Education
145 of the 5,241 open Administrative Support jobs (3%) 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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