Generic Job Description Technical Illustrator II Grade C

Representative Duties:

Plans, lays out, draws, and revises illustrations and visual aids.

Determines methods and materials. Establishes time and cost estimates.

Provides information on the design modification of illustrations.

Orders and maintains inventory of supplies.

Performs additional functions incidental to illustration activities.

Family: Technical Support
Job Code: 744 Date: 2/89

The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.

Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 744 Technical Illustrator II Grade C

Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level course work or Associate’s degree; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of a broader field of learning.
Journey-level knowledge of craft or trade.
Limited acquaintance with business, accounting, or commercial procedures.
Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures.

Required Skills
Extracts and compiles a narrow range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking set questions, or from one or several given data bases; coding based on prescribed, simple standards.
Routine use of a major library catalogue or reference database.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical, numerical or chronological system.
Screens complex, technical, or specialized literature for referral.
Write simple, internal memoranda and fills out complex forms.
Occasional use of more complex machines, including word processors or personal computers.

Office and Administrative Skills
Keyboards materials that regularly include medical or legal terminology or foreign languages.
Formats, stores and files data on a personal computer to generate basic, pre-established reports.
Schedules and coordinates appointments.
Advises, screens and refers callers and visitors.

Experience, Education, and Formal Training
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education, or two years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Complexity and Organization
Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.
Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.

Interpersonal Relations
Ongoing involvement outside immediate unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general matters.
Understands and conveys more complex messages and instructions, and takes action accordingly.

Supervisory Guidelines
Work may or may not be reviewed.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign and schedule work jointly.
Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.

Independent Judgment
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by using established procedures.

Leadership Responsibility
Occasionally provides general orientation to routine procedures/policies.
Sometimes distributes and monitors work.

Impact and Consequence of Error
Work affects both outside the work unit and outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals and groups.

Working Conditions
Slight possibility of safety risks.
Regular multiple or conflicting demands, deadlines, emergencies, or time pressures.
Regular sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.