Texas Department of State Health Services Looking for Staff Services Officer at Austin, Texas Full Time

BSP provides business support to the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) with policy and workforce planning, operations support, administering agency-wide programs and serving as the DSHS liaison to Health and Human Services System (HHS) consolidated functions, which include: Human Resources; Payroll and Time, Labor and Leave; and the Learning Resource Network (Training).

The Staff Services Officer supports the BSP Director, and team and the work of this position is moderately complex (journey-level); this position requires someone who is extremely proficient in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word, which will be used daily. If you have experience in Microsoft SharePoint, that is a bonus! This administrative duties of this position include: planning, preparing, supporting, and participating in activities for BSP’s meetings, workshops, and webinars; resolving employee service award issues; fielding email inquiries from group email mailboxes; updating and maintaining email distribution lists, calendar invitations, and BSP SharePoint site content; distributing monthly agency reports; processing training transcript credit for DSHS required trainings; Processing requests for DSHS non-employee ID numbers; performing records retention; and managing all aspects of procurement for the section, as well as developing the section’s annual spend plan and tracking expenses. The position is directly supervised by the BSP Director and has limited latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

This position is eligible to telework up to 100% of the time.