OFFICE ASSISTANT/MAIL MESSENGER

Office Assistant/Mail Messenger

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is seeking an organized, professional, and energetic individual to serve as Mail Messenger. Under general supervision, this position will pick up and deliver U.S. and inter-office mail from various downtown locations and serve as receiving officer for certified, registered, and express mail. The position will take action to ensure the receipt, transport, and delivery of the Department's security mail and materials and will sort, label, package, and distribute Department communications to staff. This position provides a great opportunity for someone who is detail oriented and interested in playing a supporting role in the Department's operations.

Essential Functions:

• Serves as Mail Messenger
• Exercises independent judgment and takes action to ensure the receipt, transport, and delivery of the Department's security mail and materials
• Sorts, labels, packages, and distributes Department communications to staff, including memoranda, rules and procedures, information transmittals, etc.
• Receives office supply shipments from vendors
• Performs inventory as requested
• Assembles packages and transports heavy volumes of stored goods and materials

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of high school
• Requires 1 year of office experience

Conditions of Employment:

• Requires ability to pass a background check
• Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties
• Requires appropriate, valid driver's license
• Requires the physical ability to operate a loaded two wheel hand dolly and an electric pallet jack
• Requires the ability to operate a computer terminal and UPS and USPS mailing and posting equipment, including a satellite-based tracking system

About the Agency:

DCFS is deeply committed to the welfare and protection of children. Our goal is to protect children by strengthening and supporting families. In every effort, from receiving hotline calls to reaching family reunification or foster care and adoption, children and families are our focus.