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Generic Job Description

Athletic Attendant II

Grade C

Representative Duties:

  • Assists in overseeing the daily operations at the facility to ensure safety, proper facility maintenance and effective coordination of all activities conducted at the facility.
  • Handles and resolves all facility problems including scheduling conflicts, emergencies and shutdown decisions as necessary.
  • Provides input on budget, scheduling, and major purchasing decisions. Orders routing supplies as necessary.
  • Services facility and equipment users. Provides information, receives money in payment of fees, issues receipts, explains programs, schedules, rules, and regulations.
  • Enforces procedural rules and regulations. Monitors personal safety of athletic facility users.
  • Schedules use of facility and equipment.
  • Oversees, instructs, and coordinates the activity of support staff. Serves as source of technical information on facility conditions, maintenance and related problems.
  • Maintains security of facility and equipment. Opens and closes facility ensuring the users have left the premises.
  • Inspects and maintains the general condition of facilities. Performs light cleaning and minor repairs and acts as liaison for maintenance and major repair activities.
  • Operates specialized equipment, tools, and vehicles.
  • Ensures proper maintenance of equipment and vehicles by conducting routine maintenance services. Troubleshoots problems and coordinates vendor service as necessary.
  • Maintains records and completes financial, administrative and/or technical forms.
  • Performs additional functions incidental to athletic attendant activities.

Family: Service
Job Code: 669 Date: 11/95

The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.

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Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 669 Athletic Attendant II Grade C

Required Knowledge:
General knowledge, high school level; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or more work-related areas; general acquaintance with a broader field of knowledge.
Limited acquaintance with business, accounting or commercial procedures.
Limited knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University , academic, administrative, or financial rules and procedures.

Required Skills:
Extracts and compiles a range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking questions, or from one or several given data bases; coding based on prescribed simple standards.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical, numerical, or chronological system.
Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, policy statements, etc.
Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms.
Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors or personal computers; responsibility for basic troubleshooting and repair or manipulation of data using published software.

Office and Administrative Skills:
Keyboards forms, labels, and other simple material.
Schedules and coordinates appointments.
Advises, screens and refers callers and visitors.

Experience, Education and Formal Training:
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Complexity and Organization:
A limited variety of tasks that require coordinating steps and procedures.
Often coordinates or organizes others’ work.

Interpersonal Relations:
Ongoing involvement with others outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex answers that may take time to give.

Supervisory Guidelines:
Work may or may not be reviewed.
Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on the understanding of the supervisor’s broadly defined objectives and priorities. Supervisor reviews work only after completion.
Instruction provided in only very rare instances.

Independent Judgment:
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by choosing solutions form among several alternatives that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.

Leadership Responsibility:
Often provides work guidance, instruction, or orientation of others.
Often distributes and monitors work.

Impact and Consequence of Error:
Work often has significant impact both on more than one department and outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct.
Errors or mistaken release of confidential information can cause harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University or to other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions:
Occasional possibility of safety risks.
Regularly includes multiple or conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines or emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
Machinery, tools, or other equipment used to perform the work is capable of causing injury.

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