Position Type:
Administrative Support/Clerical/Administrative Assistant
Date Posted:
7/24/2023
Location:
Parchment / Central Office District Administration
District:
Parchment School District - website
POSITION: Administrative Assistant (Business Office)
M-F: 30-40 hours/week
52 Weeks
$16-$18 per hour to commensurate with experience
PURPOSE: The administrative assistant will perform a variety of office support and/or secretarial duties for the district business office, such as composing a variety of standard documents and correspondence, relaying and resolving routine telephone and/or walk-up inquiries, scheduling calendar items and meetings, making travel arrangements, processing forms, performing data entry, and establishing and maintaining records. Edits and proofreads documents to ensure accuracy. May perform duties involving simple mathematical calculations.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- 1-2 years experience working in an office setting
- Typing proficiency minimum 40 words per minute and ability to operate office equipment, business machines and computer software programs
- Must maintain confidentiality and integrity at all times
- Must be accurate, efficient, and capable of handling detailed work assignments
- Ability to get along and communicate with staff, administrators, public, and others
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Performs a wide variety of assignments which may be confidential in nature and require research to complete; operates personal computer to compose, edit, revise, tabulate, and print letters, tables, reports, and other materials
- Greets and directs visitors, resolves routine administrative problems, and answers inquiries concerning activities and operations of department/division; accepts, screens, and routes telephone calls; maintains log of inquiries as required
- Performs a range of staff and/or operational support activities; may serve as a liaison with other departments on basic administrative and/or operational matters
- Sorts, screens, and distributes incoming and outgoing mail, drafts or prepares responses to routine inquiries, and operates a variety of office equipment
- Establishes, maintains, processes, and updates files, records, certificates, and/or other documents
- Arranges meetings and conferences, schedules interviews and appointments, and performs other duties related to maintaining one or more individual schedules; makes travel and lodging arrangements, either directly or through travel agencies
- Orders, stocks, and distributes office supplies
- Performs basic, routine bookkeeping functions, which may involve simple billing and cash receipt activities
- May instruct and oversee the activities of student employees performing the same type of work
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES:
- Ability to perform simple accounting procedures
- Knowledge of supplies, equipment, and/or services ordering and inventory control
- Records maintenance skills
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Ability to maintain calendars and schedule appointments
- Ability to understand and follow specific instructions and procedures
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of records and information
- Word processing and/or data entry skills
- Skill in the use of operating basic office equipment
- Ability to create, compose, and edit written materials
- Organizing and coordinating skills
- Receptionist skills
Qualified candidates please apply via Applitrack https://www.applitrack.com/kalamazoo/onlineapp
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, and talk. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and depth perception.
NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION - The Parchment School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, including sexual orientation and/or transgender identity, disability, age, religion, height, weight, marital or family status, military status, ancestry, genetic information or any other legally protected category in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities. Inquiries by applicants, students and/or parents/guardians relates to discrimination on the basis of disability/status should be directed to: Superintendent of the Parchment School District, 520 N. Orient Street, Parchment, MI 49004. Phone Number 269-488-1050.
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