Job Description:   Administrative Assistant job duties

• Switchboard duties involve operating communication systems to answer, direct, and transfer incoming calls to the correct departments or individuals, managing visitor check-ins, and performing general administrative tasks such as taking messages, providing information, and maintaining records.
• Operators also handle emergency calls, monitor alarms, and may perform other duties like managing paging systems, sorting mail, and providing basic customer service. The specific duties of a switchboard operator can vary depending on the organization and often blend with receptionist functions. 
• Responsibilities include locating specialized doctors near the claimant's location to complete exams requested by the Disability Evaluator. Scheduling consultative examinations (CE) including follow-up phone calls to claimants. Print CE, assemble the packet to be mailed out to claimant, send CE paperwork through fax if necessary to doctors.
• Responds to inquiries from claimants, vendors, and other sources regarding status of claim or for transportation assistance such as mailing out bus passes to claimants.  Contacts claimants to advise of appointments and paperwork that is still pending, contacts doctors for follow reports or specific instructions, hospitals for authorizations and reports and other sources such as claimant’s attorneys to answer basic status questions.
• Contacts claimants, attorney representatives, medical sources and other sources as directed by the supervisor to assist claim adjudicators.           
• Ensures daily assignments are disseminated and completed using a tracking system.
• Conduct case development activities which require analysis and judgment.

This position has potential of going hybrid after training.Intense Internal background check will be done/ internal background check can take up to a month. Please make sure you are letting the resources know. Tentative start date will be dependent upon interviews conducted, onboarding completed, and the state agency issuing a PO.• HireRight must be used for Background Checks and Drug Screenings. Global ID with facial biomatrix• Local Only Candidates - Resumes must specify the current location of the candidate, all those who do not state current location will not be considered. - AS A REMINDER - Candidates must be local at time of submission, and available for in person interviews within 1 week of the posting close date. Candidates must also be able to start within 2 weeks of an offer being made.
Required Skills

• Customer Service internal/external 
• Scheduling/ front desk experience
• Computer skills

 Preferred Skills

• Bilingual