Performs a variety of clerical and administrative departmental duties as assigned, which may include but not be limited to answering incoming phone calls, providing first line customer service support; referring inquiries, requests, and issues to appropriate staff; scheduling interviews, testing, and pre-employment screenings for employment candidates; reviewing status of new hire orientation packets prior to employment; inputting new employee information into automated payroll system; opening, sorting, and distributing departmental mail; ordering, stocking, and distributing supplies; and preparation of written correspondence, reports, flyers, and presentations. Assists professional staff with research, compilation, and analysis of data for a variety of human resources and risk management task, projects, and reports, including but not limited to the reconciliation or preparation of personnel action forms, employee and retiree benefit deductions and payments, classification and compensation studies and updates, and liability and worker's compensation claims and expenditures.