The town of Lee Massachusetts is centrally located in Berkshire County of Western Massachusetts, home of one of the most scenic and culturally vibrant areas of the state. Every season brings thousands of tourists to the Berkshires for the scenery, the arts, and the activities.
JOB DESCRIPTION – TOWN OF LEE
Position Title: Combined Assistant Town Clerk/Assistant Collector
Department: Treasurer/Collector/Town Clerk
Salary: $25 per hour
SUMMARY/OBJECTIVE
The Assistant Clerk/Collector is responsible for the provision of technical and professional work associated with the receipt and custody of town funds, assistance with elections, vital records and other clerk related permitting. All work shall be in accordance with applicable local Bylaws, Massachusetts General Laws and federal laws/regulations. The employee is required to perform all similar or related duties.
SUPERVISION
The Collector works under the general direction of the Town Clerk and Town Collector.
MAJOR DUTIES (essential job functions)
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, hear and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Accountability: Duties include responsibility for technical processes, service delivery, and
contribution to municipal-wide financial plans and objectives and fiscal responsibility for the
department. Consequences of errors, missed deadlines or poor judgment could severely
jeopardize department operations or have extensive financial and/or legal repercussions to the
municipality.
Judgment: Work requires the employee to examine, analyze, and evaluate facts and
circumstances surrounding individual problems, situations or transactions, and determining
actions to be taken within the limits of standard or accepted practices. Guidelines include a large body of policies, practices, and precedents which may be conflicting, at times. Independent judgment is used to analyze or evaluate specific situations to determine appropriate actions.
Complexity: Work consists of the practical application of a variety of concepts, practices, and
specialized techniques relating to a professional or technical field. Assignments typically involve
evaluation and interpretation of factors, conditions or unusual circumstances; inspecting, testing or evaluating compliance with established standards or criteria; gathering, analyzing and evaluating facts or data using specialized fact finding techniques; or determining the methods to accomplish the work.
Confidentiality: The employee has regular access at the departmental level to a wide variety of
confidential information in accordance with the State Public Records Law including official
employee personnel files and department records.
RECOMMENDED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
POSITION TYPE/EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK
This is an hourly NON BENIFITED position with 18 hours per week. Averaging 9 hours per week in each department (clerk and collector). Additional hours may be needed occasionally to cover clerk/collector time off. All hours are in person. Actual hours can be flexible with in the normal town hall schedule (Monday – Friday). Must work a minimum of 4 days per week.

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