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Network Engineer
SALARY & BENEFITS
Annual Range: $79,466 - $97,685
Benefits:
Dental, health, vision, life and long-term disability insurance
Pension/Retirement through WA DRS
Personal time off starting at 236 hours per year plus 8 hours of sick leave per month
See Skagit 911’s Earnings and Benefits Statement for non-represented, salaried employees’ benefit details: https://www.skagit911.us/uploads/Employment/2024%20Non-Rep%20Admin%20benefits%20memo.pdf
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Must not have any felony convictions
Must not have any active criminal charges
Must pass a background investigation and credit check.
EDUCATION
A combination of education and related experience is sufficient to provide the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or a directly related field. Or any satisfactory combination of experience and training, including military experience, which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the job.
EXPERIENCE
At least four years of general accounting experience, which included financial statement preparation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll.
SUMMARY
The Accounting Administrator is a FLSA exempt, non-represented position.
Under the direct supervision of the Executive Director, the Accounting Administrator performs accounting and administrative support work requiring knowledge of and experience with accounting procedures, office operations, practices, systems and equipment. Job emphasis is on payroll, taxes, accounts receivable, accounts payable, funds transfers, and journal entries. This position assists with annual budget preparation and the annual audit. Successful performance of the job requires individual initiative, integrity and absolute discretion in confidential matters. Tasks must be efficiently and effectively performed independently with a minimum of supervision and a high level of proficiency as errors will affect the credibility of the financial information and may cause a significant financial impact.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Process Accounts Payable including matching accounts vendor invoices with purchase orders and receiving documents, process check runs, assure expenditures are charged correctly to GL accounts, reconcile and post credit card and petty cash expenses, resolve discrepancies.
Process Accounts Receivable including creating invoice and credit memos for user agency assessments, post and maintain daily cash receipts, transfer funds from fund accounts, correct errors and discrepancies, communicate with customers to ensure timely payment terms are met.
Process semi-monthly payroll, including submitting ACH/direct deposit files, administer retirement and benefit disbursements; calculate and prepare general ledger entries; determine and correct out-of-balance conditions; reconcile payroll clearing and other accounts; prepare and remit taxes, calculate levies and garnishments; perform quarterly and year-end closings.
Examine accounts and records to compute taxes according to prescribed rate, laws and regulations; ensure compliance with periodic tax payments, information reporting and other taxing authority requirements.
Communicate effectively via written and verbal correspondence. Accurately draft various types of written correspondence to provide information to staff and team members. Must have excellent attention to detail when entering data, proofreading, and editing documentation.
Develop, maintain and update accurate manual and computerized recordkeeping systems. Provide documents and records and information according to state audit requirements. Prepare records and documents for filing, archiving and/or microfilming. Assists in preparing materials for internal and external audits.
Plans, develops and implements the department’s annual budgets; assists with determining budget and priorities and identifies cost control and resource allocations.
Ensures that day-to-day financial planning, operations, functions and projects are proceeding according to timelines, meeting targets, expectations, and adhering to established operating parameters; negotiates changes in project resources as necessary to achieve objectives/timelines.
Maintains employee payroll and benefits files; reviewing annually to archive expired items and assure remaining documents are up to date and complete.
Maintain employee leave and attendance records; which includes the documentation of all earned, used, and donated vacation leave, sick leave, compensatory time, management leave, personal days, bereavement, military leave etc. Produce reports from payroll software for distribution monthly to managers.
Initiate completion of regularly recurring reports and standard form letters. Maintain accumulative records, making periodic audits as necessary.
Provide support and assistance to team members with responsibilities outside the essential job duties of this position. Be willing to work as a team and accept other duties as assigned.
Ability to maintain regular and predictable attendance is an essential job function for this position.
Keeps informed of regulatory changes for funding sources. Seeks training and continuing education for related financial and personnel topics.
Assists with general front office and receptionist duties.
FIRST REVIEW DEADLINE
The first review deadline is November 20th at 8am PST.
JOB DESCRIPTION
911 Dispatcher/Call-Taker (Entry-Level/Trainee)
SALARY & BENEFITS
2024 Hourly Rate: $27.48 (Trainee rate); $28.30 (Step 1 Dispatcher rate); $35.11 (Step 10 Dispatcher rate) and multiple additional premium, longevity incentives, and/or promotion opportunities.
2025 Hourly Rate: $28.57(Trainee rate); $28.88 (Step 1 Dispatcher rate); $36.51 (Step 10 Dispatcher rate) and multiple additional premium, longevity incentives, and/or promotion opportunities.
Benefits:
> Dental, health, life insurance, and long-term disability insurance
> Pension/retirement through WA DRS
> Personal time off starting at 188 hours per year plus 8 hours of sick leave per month
> Holiday premium pay (1.5 x rate), holiday premium overtime pay (2 x rate)
FOR CURRENT OR PREVIOUS DISPATCHERS
If you currently work or have worked at a 911 center in the United States within the last two years, you may be classified as a Lateral Dispatcher/Calltaker. Skagit 911 is always open to speaking with Lateral Dispatchers/Calltakers. If you would like to know more or wish to apply for a position at Skagit 911, please email Skagit 911's hiring team at Hiring@skagit911.us
What is a 911 Dispatcher at Skagit 911?
Please click this link to learn more about being a 911 Dispatcher at Skagit 911.
If you can't access this link, here are some excerpts from the PowerPoint:
Introduction
Skagit 911 answers, processes, and dispatches all 9-1-1 calls within Skagit County and parts of Whatcom County. Skagit 911 serves nine law enforcement agencies, four municipal fire agencies, seventeen fire districts, and one EMS agency. Skagit 911 utilizes and maintains several different technologies, such as a CAD (Computer Aided Dispatching) system, 911 phone system, multiple radio towers, and the core radio system for emergency responders in Skagit County.
Skagit 911 Dispatchers have three primary responsibilities and missions: 1) Answer emergency calls from the public 2) Dispatch emergency calls 3) Monitor and assist public safety responders
9-1-1 Call-Taking
Every Dispatcher at Skagit 911 is trained to answer and process all calls that come into our center. Most of these calls are law enforcement response calls, fewer are medical response calls, and the fewest are fire response calls. Most 9-1-1 calls are started the same way: “Where are you?” “What is going on?” “Are you injured?” No one call or caller is the exactly the same as the other, so Dispatchers need to think and act quickly. Most callers are experiencing the worst day of their lives and can be difficult to focus on answering key questions needed to get them the right help at the right place.
Emergency Dispatching
At the start of every shift, Skagit 911 Dispatchers are assigned to different public safety agencies. For example, one of these agencies is the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO). The Dispatcher assigned to SCSO will dispatch calls in their jurisdictions and monitor the deputies that are on duty. This is where true multitasking comes in. Skagit 911 Dispatchers are required answer 9-1-1 calls, dispatch priority incidents, and assist their assigned responders (deputies in this example). Sometimes this means listening to two people talk at once and being able to register what both people are saying.
Point of View of the Dispatcher by NORCOM 911: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497uMOa8oq0
Dispatcher's Schedule
Currently, Skagit 911 Dispatchers work 12-hour shifts in the following format:
Most “Day” shifts are 6am to 6pm and most “Grave” shifts are 6pm to 6am. Two hours each week are built-in overtime hours and are either cashed out at 1.5 times the hourly rate or converted to time off at the 1.5 rate (this is the employee’s choice). There are currently no part-time positions. Skagit 911 is only hiring full-time employees in the year 2024 and 2025. Due to the critical nature of this work, employees are expected to be at work and ready to answer 9-1-1 calls at the start of their shift.
Personal Time Off
Skagit 911 Dispatchers earn a certain among of vacation every two weeks of work based on their time at Skagit 911:
Since Skagit 911 Dispatchers are required to work holidays, all employees are credited 8 hours of time off to use at any point of the year. Holiday time is earned in the pay period (pay periods are every two weeks) the holiday falls in. Skagit 911 Dispatchers earn 4 hours of sick leave every pay period (8 hours every month). Sick leave carries over each year.
Training
Skagit 911 hires in groups of one to four. Training is full-time, paid, with benefits. First day starts in Skagit 911’s academy. The academy is an in-house training program that works with new Dispatch Trainees to get them ready for their floor training. Dispatch Trainees learn about the following:
• Policies & Procedures
• CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch)
• Geography of Skagit County
• Non-Emergency Call-Taking
• Emergency Call-Taking
Floor training begins after passing the academy’s “Call-Take Final”. Trainees are assigned a Trainer that best matches the Trainee’s learning style. Trainees still work a 4-10 schedule but match up with the days their Trainer works. While working with a Trainer on the Dispatch Floor, Trainees take real, live 9-1-1 and non-emergency calls. At the beginning of this process, Trainers will coach their Trainees on what to say or do. As training progresses, the Trainer will move toward silently monitoring the Trainee until they can recommend being signed off on call-take training. On average, Trainees will spend around 240 hours on call-taking training. This process repeats for radio training. This also take around 240 hours of radio training.