Recruitment #16-8160-01
| Date Opened | 7/29/2016 12:00:00 AM |
|---|---|
| Filing Deadline | 8/23/2016 5:00:00 PM |
| Salary | $24.06 - $28.49/hour; $50,052.00 - $59,256.00/year |
| Employment Type |
Permanent Full-Time Employment
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| HR Analyst | Debra Robinson |
| Department | Alameda County Fire Department |
| Work Location |
Dublin
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THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION. The eligible list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list and may last approximately one year, but can be extended.
Applications must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Postmarks are not accepted. Applications will only be accepted on-line.
ON-LINE APPLICATIONS ONLY
THE AGENCY
THE ALAMEDA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT (ACFD) provides all-risk emergency services to the unincorporated areas of Alameda County (excluding Fairview), the cities of San Leandro, Dublin, Newark and Union City and Emeryville, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. With 29 fire stations and 35 companies serving a population of 394,000, the ACFD serves densely populated urban areas, waterways, industrialized centers, extensive urban interface, agricultural and wildland regions. Over 400 personnel and 100 Reserve Firefighters provide a wide variety of services to an ever expanding, dynamic and diverse community of roughly 508 square miles. These services include:
The Alameda County Fire Department (ACFD) was formed on July 1, 1993 as a dependent special district with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors as its governing body. This consolidation brought together into a single jurisdiction the Castro Valley Fire Department, Eden Fire Department and County Fire Patrol (each a dependent special district under the Board of Supervisors).
Prior to 1993 Unincorporated Fire Protection:
Subsequently, the following communities have consolidated with the ACFD:
The ACFD is also responsible for the administration and operation of the Alameda County Regional Emergency Communications Center (ACRECC). The dispatch center provides dispatch and regional communication center services for the ACFD, the Alameda County Emergency Medical Services Agency, Camp Parks Combat Support Training Center, and the cities of Alameda, Fremont, Livermore and Pleasanton. ACRECC is also the Dispatch/System Status Management Center for Paramedics Plus ambulance service.
THE POSITION
Under general supervision, performs complex accounting clerical work in connection with maintaining and reconciling financial records for the Alameda County Fire Department (ACFD); and performs related work as required.
Education:
High school diploma or equivalent.
AND
Experience:
The equivalent of two years of responsible financial record keeping experience. (Completion of a bookkeeping or accounting curriculum in an accredited business school or community college may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.)
NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications in the announcement of an examination.
The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following competencies:
Knowledge of:
• Methods and practices of financial record keeping and processing; including accounts payable, accounts receivable, cost accounting, purchasing, and contracts.
• Fund Accounting, County, and other governmental rules and regulations affecting accounting functions.
• Reconciling problem accounts both past due and current
• Microsoft Office software
• PeopleSoft software
• Oracle Systems software
Ability to:
• Establish and maintain cooperative relations with internal and external customers
• Prioritize assignments
• Exercise independent judgment within guidelines; work independently in the absence of specific instructions
• Identify, research, and correct errors in a variety of mathematical calculations in financial documents
• Compile and analyze information
• Maintain attention to detail and accuracy while meeting deadlines
• Operate standard office equipment
THE EXAMINATION WILL CONSIST OF the following steps:
1) A review of candidates' applications to verify possession of minimum requirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the class will move on to the next step in the examination process.
2) A written examination which will be qualifying only.
3) An oral interview with a situational exercise which will be weighted as 100% of the candidate's final examination score. The oral interview may contain situational exercises.
CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACH PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION.
We reserve the right to make changes to the announced examination components. Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit. Such a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted and specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other recruitments many be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.
To learn more about our recruitment and selection process, please visit the “What You Need to Know” section of our website, www.acgov.org/hrs.
Applicants will be informed via email with reasonable notice in advance of any examination process which will require their attendance. The following dates are tentative and subject to change based on the needs of the Agency:
TENTATIVE SELECTION PLAN
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Deadline for Filing: Review of Minimum Qualifications: Written Examination: Oral Interview: |
5:00 p.m, Tuesday, August 23, 2016 Thursday, September 8, 2016 Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Mon & Tues, Oct. 10-11, 2016 |
Alameda County and the Human Resource Services Department will make reasonable efforts in the examination and/or selection process to accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities and/or medical conditions in accordance/compliance with the State Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Alameda County’s Reasonable Accommodation Policy and applicable statutes. To request an accommodation due to a disability/medical condition during this or other phases of the examination/selection process, please contact the assigned Human Resources Representative listed on the job announcement before the last date of filing. Alameda County requires applicants to provide supporting documentation to substantiate a request for reasonable accommodation. In order to qualify for a reasonable accommodation, applicants must have a disability/medical condition pursuant to the ADA, FEHA and applicable statutes.
For more information regarding our Reasonable Accommodation procedures, please visit our website, www.acgov.org/hrs
All notices related to County recruitments for which you have applied will be sent/delivered via email. Please add @acgov.org and alamedacountyHR@acgov.org as accepted addresses to any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. If you do not do this, your email blocking or spam filtering program may block receipt of the notices regarding your application for recruitments. You are also strongly advised to regularly log into your County of Alameda online application account to check for notices that may have been sent to you. All email notices that will be sent to you will also be kept in your personal online application account. You will be able to view all of your notices in your online application account by clicking on the "My applications" button on the Current Job Openings page.
Please take the steps recommended above to insure you do not miss any notices about a recruitment for which you have applied. The County of Alameda is not responsible for notices that are not read, received or accessed by any applicant for a County recruitment.
NOTE: All notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email box alamedacountyHR@acgov.org are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. All notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email box are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. If you have questions please go to our website at www.acgov.org/hrs. You may also contact the Human Resources Analyst listed on the job announcement for the recruitment for which you have applied.
Gizelle Huynh, Human Resources Analyst II
Human Resource Services, County of Alameda
510-272-6472
Gizelle.Huynh@acgov.org
Alameda County is an Equal Opportunity Employer
