Clerk, Mail Location: Fairfax, VA Duration: 11 Months with possible contract to hire Description: Purpose: Collects, sorts, and distributes mail. Essential Functions: 30% Ships and receives office supplies and materials. 25% Weighs and prepares shipments. 25% Operates postage meter. 20% Picks-up packages inside and outside the office. Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education Level : High School Diploma or GED Experience: 1-year clerical experience or mail handling Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) Strong customer service orientation, Proficient Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems., Proficient Basic computer skills., Proficient Excellent communication skills both written and verbal., Proficient The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs. Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time. Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging. Skills: Category Name Required Importance Level Last Used Experience Administrative Research Yes 1 Intermediate Within 6 Months 2 - 4 Years Technical Data Entry Yes 1 Expert Within 6 Months 2 - 4 Years Technical Time Management Yes 1 Expert Within 6 Months 4 - 6 Years Call Notes: Responsibilities: Candidate will be working on incoming mails (Claims and written correspondences), which are batched in bundles. Scanning the documents and performing indexing (Entering the information into system). This is not a mail processing role. Data entry mandatory. 1-2 years of data entry experience along with mail/documents scanning and labelling experience. 80% Data Entry 20% Documents/Mails/Correspondence Scanning Any medical clerk/file clerk who has good data entry skills and document scanning experience will work.