Job Descriptions > General
This online career listing will give you an idea of the kind of careers available at Manitoba Public Insurance. It is intended to provide an idea of the kinds of positions held by employees of Manitoba Public Insurance, as well as the career paths available to them. The listings here are only brief summaries and do not cover all the responsibilities of the positions.
The information provided here does not reflect current job vacancies at Manitoba Public Insurance. To see where we're currently hiring, please check out Current Openings.
Please note this is not a complete listing of positions at Manitoba Public Insurance, and does not always indicate career path development.
Clerical
Clerk I
Work Location: Various - Manitoba
Under close supervision, performs routine, repetitive clerical work while gaining familiarization with the functions of the department.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- High school graduation
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Ability to learn assigned tasks readily
- Ability to adhere to an established office routine
- Good written and oral communication skills
- OR an equivalent combination of the above
Clerk II Receiver
Work Location: Winnipeg
Under supervision, tracks location of vehicles in the Holding Compound. Receives and inventories all vehicle equipment and contents upon arriving at the Physical Damage Centre. Provides general information to customers.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- High school graduation
- Experience:
- One year practical experience
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Good organizational skills
- Demonstrated customer service skills
- OR an equivalent combination of the above
Clerk II
Work Location: Various - Manitoba
Under supervision, performs moderately complex clerical work. Decisions are made using established precedents or departmental policy.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- High school graduation
- Experience:
- One year office experience
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated customer service skills
- Familiarity with Corporate software is preferred
- OR an equivalent combination of the above
Clerk III
Work Location: Various - Manitoba
Under general supervision, performs complex clerical work of a semi-technical nature. Decisions are made using established precedents or departmental policy.
Qualifications
- Education:
- High school graduation
- Experience:
- Three years office experience with at least one year in a function related to this position
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Proficient in applicable office software
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated customer service skills
- OR an equivalent combination of the above
Clerk
IV
Work Location: Various - Manitoba
With minimum supervision, directs the application of departmental policy and procedure in the day-to-day activities of the section. The incumbent performs highly responsible and complex clerical work of a technical nature. Particular emphasis is placed on the incumbent's responsibilities for supervision of subordinates, preparation of management information reports, systems and procedural control and communications with Corporation personnel and/or the general public where applicable to the section.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- Grade XII
- Experience:
- A minimum of three (3) years practical experience and at least one (1) year related experience in a responsible position
- Or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Extensive knowledge of the departmental program with which the incumbent is directly concerned as well as a good basic knowledge of the overall departmental policy
- Ability to plan, assign, review and supervise the work of a number of subordinates
- Ability to deal effectively with the public and other departmental employees personally or by correspondence
- Ability to operate office machines as required
Clerk Typist
I
Work Location: Various - Manitoba
Under close supervision, performs routine and repetitive word processing and clerical work.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- High school graduation
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Demonstrated keyboarding skills (approximately 40 wpm)
- Ability to learn assigned tasks readily
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Familiarity with Corporate word processing software is preferred
- OR an equivalent combination of the above
Clerk
Typist II
Work Location: Various - Manitoba
Under supervision, performs moderately complex typing and clerical work. Decisions are made using established precedents or departmental policy.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- High school graduation
- Experience:
- One year office experience
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Demonstrated keyboarding skills (approx. 50 wpm)
- Proficient in applicable office software
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated customer service skills
- OR an equivalent combination of the above
Clerk
Typist III
Work Location: Various - Manitoba
Under the direction of a department manager, completes complex assignments using departmental software and performs complex clerical work in an administrative assistant capacity. Decisions are made using established precedents or departmental policy.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- High school graduation
- Experience:
- Three years office experience
- Special skills
and/or requirements:
- Demonstrated keyboarding skills (approximately 60 w.p.m.)
- Proficient in applicable office software
- Ability to work independently
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated customer service skills
- OR an equivalent combination of the above
Clerk
Typist IV
Work Location: Various - Manitoba
This is highly responsible clerical work where the employee spends at least 50% of their time on difficult and complex typing assignments, often composed on their own. The employee will be responsible for a single unit of work from start to finish, or will have a great variety of tasks. The employee is expected to plan their own duties, referring decision on policy or deviation from precedents to their superior. Will have supervisory responsibilities. Work of this class differs from that of a Clerk Typist III in that the application of established procedures requires the making of final and responsible decisions of a routine nature or in a well-defined field. The employee is responsible for the supervision of subordinate typists performing a variety of typing assignments unrelated to their duties. Is responsible for the setting of typing priorities and the training of subordinate typists.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- Grade XII
- Experience:
- Minimum of four (4) years practical experience
- Or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Demonstrated keyboarding skills (approx. 60 wpm)
- Proficient in applicable office software
- Ability to draw on practical knowledge and experience to perform new tasks from general instructions
- Should possess the tact and maturity to direct the work of others and deal effectively with the public
- Ability to work with little or no direction
- Ability to plan, assign, review and supervise the work of a number of subordinates
Electronic
Media Publisher
Work Location: Winnipeg
Under the direction of the Manager, Business Practices and Training, the Electronic Media Publisher performs specialized tasks requiring expertise in web site design and maintenance, developing multimedia presentations, application testing, online documentation and desktop publishing. The incumbent is required to work in a fast-paced environment with inflexible timelines and to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- Certificates in graphic design or web/multimedia development from a recognized post-secondary institution.
- Superior knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications.
- Experience:
- Two (2) years experience creating and maintaining web pages.
- Two (2) years demonstrated experience in laying out and producing on-line/paper documents, using personal computers and software applications, in an environment where material is timely, highly complex, highly sensitive, and requires extreme accuracy.
- Or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience:
- Special skills and/or requirements:
- Demonstrated proficiency in applicable
office software, Dreamweaver and hand-coding of web pages with HTML.
- Demonstrated knowledge of typography and page layout issues.
- Demonstrated knowledge of punctuation, grammar, and spelling rules.
- Demonstrated skill in word processing, layout, spreadsheet, database, and presentation applications used in the department.
- Demonstrated ability and knowledge of various file types and demonstrated knowledge in transferring data files across platforms and software applications.
- Demonstrated 50 w.p.m. keyboarding skills.
- Ability to plan, organize and execute production of large complex documents.
- Ability to draw on practical knowledge and experience in order to perform new tasks from general instructions.
- Ability to work on multiple assignments simultaneously.
- Ability to exercise good judgement, and make informed and objective decisions.
- Must have successfully passed the knowledge and skill tests.
