What are the responsibilities and job description for the Attendance Clerk - High School position at Kentwood Public Schools?
Position: Attendance Clerk - High School
Schedule: 8 hours/day – 5 days/week – 42 weeks/year -Full time with benefits
Essential Job Functions
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
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Kentwood Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in its employment decisions or the provision of services.
Schedule: 8 hours/day – 5 days/week – 42 weeks/year -Full time with benefits
Essential Job Functions
- Provide a positive customer service experience to staff, students and parents/guardians when they are reporting to the attendance office or on the telephone
- Communicate with and assist teachers and administrators as it relates to attendance.
- Record daily attendance information – computer entry – resolve attendance issues and inquiries.
- Responsible for end of day completion of daily attendance activity.
- Maintain detailed attendance recordkeeping with a high degree of accuracy.
- Review daily student attendance on district-wide network.
- Issue tardy/late slips during the school day and provide early dismissals for specific students leaving school early for approved reasons.
- Monitor, identify and correct attendance inaccuracies.
- Schedule students on system to allow teachers to view students for attendance taking.
- Regular, reliable and punctual attendance
- Serve on the school attendance team.Track truancy with a truancy team.
- Assist with attendance audit.
- Other duties as assigned by the Superintendent or his/her designee.
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Able to multi-task in a very busy front office environment.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding students, employees and others.
- Ability to establish a supportive and compassionate relationship with students.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, staff and others contacted in the course of work.
- Skilled in Microsoft Office and other office applications. Willing to learn related software used by the district.
- Ability to report work orally or in writing to supervisor as required.
- Effective writing and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in an economically, culturally and racially diverse environment.
- Ada Requirements: The physical demands, work environment factors, and mental functions described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk, hear (in a quiet or noisy environment), taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust/focus.
- Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually loud to moderate.
- Mental Functions: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to compare, analyze, communicate both orally and in writing, copy, coordinate, instruct, compute, synthesize, evaluate, use interpersonal skills, compile and negotiate.
- High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- Two years of office experience preferred.
Visit the district website: Click kentwoodps/employment.org
Kentwood Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in its employment decisions or the provision of services.
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