Secretary to Principal - Elementary School

Douglas County School District • Larkspur Elementary, TX

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Secretary to Principal role is set up for elementary schools without a full front office staff. In addition to providing administrative support to the Principal, the Secretary is therefore responsible for performing the additional office responsibilities of Health Assistant, Registrar, Receptionist and/or Bookkeeper. The Secretary will also be expected to develop and promote good community relations among various community and school clientele.

Requirements

• High School or Equivalent (Required)

Responsibilities

• Maintains the principal’s calendar, makes appointments, schedules meetings and conferences. May assist in maintaining overall calendar of school and community events.
• Maintains files on personnel, including evaluations and other confidential information.
• Makes arrangements for various meetings, may attend and take minutes and notes and disseminates information.
• Performs other front office responsibilities as school Health Assistant, Registrar, Receptionist or related duties as assigned or requested.
• Coordinates a variety of building and staff activities including but not limited to, beginning and end-of-year check-in and check-out, back to school nights, parent teacher conferences, building security measures.
• Responds to telephone calls, routes calls, takes messages, greets visitors and assists staff, parents and community with concerns and questions.
• Manages a variety of personnel functions such as substitute teachers, staff leaves and leave records, pay sheets, and personnel hiring packets.
• Coordinates, assigns and directs the work of support clerical personnel, serves as a data source for evaluation, and makes routine decisions.
• Drafts and produces letters, memoranda, reports, special projects, such as newsletters, handbooks and other related materials and documents. Deals with matters of a highly confidential nature.
• May coordinate student teacher placements.
• May prepare and distribute a variety of regular and special reports for administration, the district and the state.

Benefits

• health
• vision
• dental
• health savings account (HSA)
• flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• District paid and voluntary additional (supplemental) life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• short and long-term disability
• critical illness and accident voluntary insurance
• employee assistance program (EAP)
• voluntary 401(k)
• 403(b)
• 457 retirement plan options
• paid sick and personal time

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED