Administrative Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Position Title - Licensing Specialist

Location - Augusta, Maine 04333

Duration - 24 months

Duties -

• This position is within the Health Inspection Program (HIP) at Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, reporting to the HIP Program Manager.
• This position conducts all licensing functions to renew and issue 11,000 annual and new licenses which include restaurants, take-outs, school kitchens, jail kitchens, catering, commissary, senior citizen meals, mobile food vendors, hotels, B&B’s, public pools and spas, youth camps, sporting and recreational camps, campgrounds, mass gatherings, tobacco, compressed air, micropigmentation, electrology, body piercing and tattoo artists.
• This position will work with two full-time licensing staff, compliance specialist, state and municipal health inspectors, Drinking Water Program, HIP supervisor and program manager, Tobacco Enforcement Coordinator, and the public including applicants and licensees.
• This position will assist existing resources to ensure timely processing of applications, review, and issuance of licenses, answering live calls, providing follow-up, and assisting walk-in coverage for this very busy program.

Knowledge, Skills and Certifications -

1) competency in applying a solid knowledge of modern office practices to perform complex, varied office support tasks, and

2) the ability to use independent decision-making on the appropriate processes to follow, information to process, and actions to take in accordance with standard procedures.

The candidate should possess the following :

Duties and Deliverable :

Schedule :

The position will work 40 hours per week M-F 8-5 with a 1 hour lunch.

The position will be allowed time off and flexible work hours by request.

The position will have the ability to work remotely one day per week