Job Title: Elementary School Administrative Assistant Lead
Department: Learning Elementary
Pay Grade: C160
FLSA Status: NonExempt
Reports to: Building Principal
GENERAL PURPOSE
Responsible for providing a wide variety of complex and confidential administrative and secretarial support to the assigned administrator; conveying information regarding department functions and procedures; ensuring efficient operation of support functions; and coordinating assigned projects and site activities.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
Education and Experience
- High School Diploma or its equivalent.
- Minimum of three 3 years of job related experience with increasing levels of responsibility is required.
Certificates Licenses and Other Special Requirements
- Must pass a Criminal Background Clearance.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of basic math including calculations using fractions percentages and/or ratios; read a variety of manuals write documents following prescribed formats and/or present information to others; and solve practical problems.
- Knowledge based competencies required to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job include accounting/bookkeeping principles; business telephone etiquette; common office machines; and concepts of grammar and punctuation; and office methods and practices.
- Skill to perform multiple technical tasks with a need to routinely upgrade skills in order to meet changing job conditions.
- Skill based competencies required to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job including operating standard office equipment; performing standard bookkeeping; preparing and maintaining accurate records; and using pertinent software applications.
- Ability to analyze situations to define issues and draw conclusions.
- Ability to schedule a number of activities meetings and/or events; gather collate and/or classify data; and use jobrelated equipment.
- Ability to work with others under a wide variety of circumstances; working with data utilizing defined but different processes; and operate equipment using defined methods.
- Ability to work with diverse individuals and/or groups; work with data of widely varied types and/or purposes; and utilize jobrelated equipment.
- Ability to analyze issues and create action plans.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to apply critical thinking/problem solving to improve work processes.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality; set priorities; meet deadlines and schedules; work with detailed information; and adapt to changing priorities.
- Ability to set high expectations for self and others; set and monitor progress toward goals; and utilize and offer effective feedback for continuous improvement.
- Ability to work as part of a team; adapt to changing priorities; and apply logical processes and analytical skills.
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements
- Work environment is primarily inside where the noise and temperature levels are moderate.
- The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift carry push pull or otherwise move objects including the human body.
- Must possess the physical ability to work primarily with fingers perceive the nature of sounds make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes express or exchange ideas by the spoken word substantial movements (motions) with the hands wrists and/or fingers and discern letters or numbers at a given distance.
- Additionally the following physical abilities are required: handling hearing manual dexterity mental acuity reaching repetitive motion speaking talking visual acuity and walking.