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Job Description
Definition & Distinguishing Characteristics
Join a team where your accounting and bookkeeping skills make a direct impact. The Department of Public Works is seeking a candidate to join the team in performing a variety of paraprofessional and technical accounting and bookkeeping duties, including the processing, maintenance, and review of financial and related records. This role supports the accuracy and efficiency of departmental operations and contributes to the timely completion of financial processes. If you're interested, check out the job description HERE.
This recruitment will be used to fill a current vacancy and establish an eligibility list to fill other potential openings without reposting.
What's this Job All About?
This position supports the Public Works Department by performing a variety of administrative and operational support duties. The role assists with processing and maintaining records, coordinating information across departments, and helping ensure day-to-day operations run smoothly. It plays an important part in supporting the overall efficiency and effectiveness of Public Works services.
How do we make a difference?
The Department of Public Works supports the community by helping ensure essential services and operations run efficiently behind the scenes. Our work contributes to the reliability, safety, and overall functionality of public services that residents depend on every day.
What are the benefits?- A beautiful, safe community in which to work and serve.
- A caring, empathetic, & fun work family that you will be welcomed into - where we work hard, but play hard, too!
- A job with WORK-LIFE BALANCE
- Competitive salary commensurate with education & experience
- A LIFETIME PAYCHECK(3% @ 60 for Classic Members and 2% @ 62 for New Members) - As long as you work for 5 years and vest in the CalPERS system, you will receive a retirement paycheck for the rest of your life.
- Amazing health care BENEFITS at NO COST to you - Unless you choose a premium health care plan.
- Authentically kind and engaged leadership who truly enjoy developing staff.
- 457 Deferred Compensation.
- PAID vacation, PAID holidays (15), and PAID leave if you get sick.
- Vacation Parity - Previous service with a public agency counts towards vacation accrual at Colusa County. A public agency includes cities, counties, districts, military and similar entities. To learn more about vacation parity please see our benefit summary.
COME WORK FOR COUNTY OF COLUSA: WE HAVE A SPOT JUST FOR YOU!
Supervision & Examples of Duties
Receives direct supervision from higher level supervisory or management staff.
May exercise functional and technical supervision over lower-level accounting clerical staff.
Qualifications
Experience and Training Guidelines - Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:
Experience:
Four years of progressively responsible clerical accounting or bookkeeping experience.
Training:
Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade supplemented by specialized course work in bookkeeping, accounting or a related field.
Supplemental Information
The salary range above consists of 15 steps. Steps 1-6 are annual merit steps with approximately 5% difference between each step, based on successful performance. Steps 7-15 are additional merit steps, requiring 2 years of satisfactory performance at the previous step. Steps 7-14 provide 2.5% increases, while Step 15 offers a 5% increase. The final salary offered will depend on the applicant's experience and qualifications, ranging from steps 1 to 15.
Colusa County offers an excellent benefit package. For a summary of benefits, please click here: 2026 Benefit Summary
Closing Date/Time: 6/7/2026 11:59 PM Pacific -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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County of Colusa
Show moreThe County of Colusa, nestled in the heart of the Sacramento Valley approximately 60 miles north of Sacramento and 100 miles northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, is a vibrant community rich in history and tradition and, offering a wonderful environment in which to live, work and play. The County, with approximately 22,000 residents, includes two incorporated cities; Colusa, which is the county seat, and Williams. The local economy is largely agriculturally based producing crops valued at more than $900 million each year and exporting farm commodities throughout the United States and to about seventy countries worldwide.
County government business is still conducted within the antebellum court house which was built in 1861 and has operated continuously ever since. The County’s annual General Fund budget is roughly $28 million; the total budget is about $78 million. The workforce is comprised of approximately 350 full-time equivalent positions that are assigned to five represented bargaining units.
Colusa County also offers many diverse outdoor recreational opportunities and is considered to be a sportsman’s paradise. The Sacramento River meanders through the County. Portions of five national protected areas are located within the county: Butte Sink Wildlife Refuge; Colusa National Wildlife Refuge; Delevan National Wildlife Refuge; Mendocino National Forest and; Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Recreational opportunities such as hiking, bird watching, camping and water sports abound. The Sacramento River and local lakes, offer world class fishing -