The District of Saanich employs more than 1500 members across nine departments; our greatest asset is a high performing workforce. We provide a welcoming environment and maintain a healthy, dynamic, and safe workplace that consistently attracts top-quality people and enables them to perform at their best. If you are customer service savvy and enjoy working on a team, the District of Saanich Planning Department would love to hear from you!
The Planning Assistant Clerk provides exceptional internal clerical and graphic support to the various sections of the department. Responsibilities include creating documents using desktop publishing software, maintaining the departments web pages, maintaining department office and copy supplies, word processing, filing, data entry, accepting applications and other clerical duties, including providing customer service to the public at the counter and through phone and email enquiries.
Requirements include Grade 12 or equivalent supplemented with up to one year of post-secondary courses in desktop publishing, graphic design applications or website design; and six months of office experience using desktop or website publishing programs. The ideal candidate excels in a high-volume customer service focused environment, is flexible and has a can-do attitude. Candidates with an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
The successful candidate will work Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (4.5 hours per day; 22.5 hours per week). As a component of the selection process, testing will be conducted. We thank all applicants for applying. Only those under consideration will be contacted.