EXECUTIVE SECRETARY II

Job Requisition ID: 48839

Opening Date: 08/27/2025
Closing Date: 09/10/2025
​Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: EXEC SECRETARY II - 14032
Skill Option: Keyboarding
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $5492 - $6384 per month ($65,904 - $76,608 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: None
Merit Comp Code: Confidential (Management Bill) Exclusion from RC014 Collective Bargaining Coverage

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Posting Identification Number 48839

Why Work for Illinois?

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No matter what state career you’re looking for, we offer jobs that fit your life and your schedule—flexible jobs that provide the gold standard of benefits. Our employees can take advantage of various avenues to advance their careers and realize their dreams. Our top-tier benefits and great retirement packages can help you build a rewarding career and lasting future with the State of Illinois.

Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire an Executive Secretary II for the Ludeman Developmental Center located in Park Forest, Illinois to serve as secretary to the Assistant Facility Director, performs highly responsible and complex secretarial work. Takes and keyboards a variety of material from various formats exercising independent judgement in development of final drafts. Prepares time and attendance reports. Researches and prepares responses to inquiries; provides direction to lower-level clerical staff in department which report to the Assistant Facility Director.

Essential Functions

• Serves as secretary to the Assistant Facility Director.
• Gathers, analyzes, and organizes information for special projects such as admissions, transfers, and discharges, staffing and overtime usage, audit responses and educational and vocational services.
• Receives, sorts, opens, and prioritizes incoming mail and correspondence.
• Compiles information for accreditation surveys and certification visits.
• Provides guidance and direction to lower-level clerical staff in all departments reporting to the Assistant Facility Director including individual records, quality enhancement and educational and vocational departments.
• Maintains supervisor’s schedule.
• Develops and maintains files for monthly timekeeping report of staff at the facility.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of two (2) years of secretarial or business college and two (2) years of secretarial experience OR c ompletion of high school and four (4) years of secretarial experience.
• Requires the ability to keyboard accurately at 55 wpm.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years of secretarial experience for a public or private organization.
• Two (2) years of experience meeting deadlines with strong attention to detail while multi-tasking multiple projects.
• Two (2) years of experience working in a public or private organization maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information with professionalism.
• Two (2) years of experience conducting special projects which include evaluating existing and proposed programs, policies, and procedures for a public or private organization.
• Two (2) years of experience researching and developing correspondence to internal and/or external individuals.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Access, and Excel.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires the ability to operate electronic office equipment, including computers.
• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends, and holidays.
• Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties, with overnight stays as appropriate.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.

*All conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

Work Hours: Mon - Fri, 8:30am - 5:00pm; 1-hour unpaid lunch
Work Location: 114 N Orchard Dr Park Forest, IL 60466-1200

Division of Developmental Disabilities

Ludeman Developmental Center

Assistant Center Director of Programs
Agency Contact: [email protected]
Posting Group: Office & Administrative Support; Social Services

About the Agency

The Illinois Department of Human Services uplifts individuals and communities across Illinois. Our mission is to respond to the needs of all people in Illinois so they can lead healthy, safe, and enriched lives. Our vision is the future we are shaping with dignity and the well-being for everyone in Illinois. Our values are the principles that guide us as we work to remove systemic barriers and create lasting opportunities with Compassion, Accessibility, Responsibility, and Equity.

As a State of Illinois Employee, you will receive a robust benefit package that includes the following:

• A Pension Program
• Competitive Group Insurance Benefits including Health, Life, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 3 Paid Personal Business Days annually
• 12 Paid Sick Days annually (Sick days carry over from year to year)
• 10-25 Days of Paid Vacation time annually - (10 days in year one of employment)
• Personal, Sick, & Vacation rates modified for 12-hour & part-time work schedules (as applicable)
• 13 Paid Holidays annually, 14 on even numbered years
• Flexible Work Schedules (when available dependent upon position)
• 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Deferred Compensation Program - A supplemental retirement plan
• Optional Pre-Tax Programs such as Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP), Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP)
• Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility
• GI Bill® Training/Apprenticeship Benefits eligibility for qualifying Veterans
• 5% Salary Differential for Bilingual Positions
• Commuter Savings Program (Chicago only)

For more information about our benefits please follow this link:

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If you have questions about how to apply, please see the following resources:

State employees: Log in to the career portal for State employees and review the Internal Candidate Application Job Aid

Non-State employees: on Illinois.jobs2web.com – click “Application Procedures” in the footer of every page of the website.

State employees should include temporary assignment in the application profile. Temporary assignment verification forms can be uploaded to the Additional Documents section.

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