Guild - Head Staff Assistant Grade 28 (Office Manager) (SY24-25)

Grade Level:GUILDElementary and Middle School (PreK-8)

Locations:UP Academy Dorchester

About UP Education Network

UP Education Network manages and operates six schools in Boston Lawrence and Springfield MA. We serve over 3000 elementary and middle school students. UP is invited by local school districts to restart chronically underperforming district schools as UP Academies. Each UP Academy shares the same mission: to ensure that students acquire the knowledge skills and strength of character necessary tosucceed on the path to college and to achieve their full potential.

Role

The Office Manager plays a central role in ensuring a well-run efficient and responsive school. In addition to maintaining the schools administrative systems and routines the Office Manager functions as the primary contact person for all the schools constituents. The Office Manager must be able to communicate effectively with students teachers families trustees donors and visitors.

Specific Responsibilities

• Oversee the day to day activities of the school
• Serve as the main point of contact in the school reception area greeting and documenting all visitors
• Manage phones (answering calls re-directing calls taking messages placing calls creating school announcements etc.)
• Manage the collection and maintenance of student personnel and school information
• Manage school-wide daily systems including attendance
• Plan and manage logistics and preparations for school events and activities as needed;
• Manage school maintenance and supply systems office equipment and furnishings
• Maintain school calendar of events

Qualifications

• A strong belief in UP Education Networks core values: Students CommunityHumility Resilience and Humor
• Fluency in Spanish is highly preferred
• Bachelors degree is preferred
• Current authorization to work in the United States A candidate must have such authorization by hisor her first day of employment

Compensationand Benefits

Your salary is commensurate with experience; UP Academy follows the salary scales of each UP Academys host school district. As an employee of UP Academy and your respective school districtyou will receive the same access to personal and sick days health insurance and dental insurance as others within your union.

Working at UPEducation Network

We know that great staff members directly lead to the success of our UP your career is shaped by:

• Opportunities forimmediateimpact: UP offers a chance to bring best practices found in high-performing schools to students previously enrolled in struggling schoolsand to rapidly unlockthe potential of these students
• Talented mission-driven colleagues: Our staff is enthusiastic dedicated and willing to do whatever it takes to put everystudent on the path to college
• Collaboration and teamwork: Staff members collaborate and work closely together on grade-level or content area teams using data to track student performance as well as guide instructional practice
• Consistent professional growth and development: Members ofour staff typically have bi-weekly check-in meetings with their managers where they receive targeted coaching and supportand theentire staff participates in weekly professional development sessions during the school year kick-started byextensive training in August.

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply for any open position for which they are qualified. Our students must be exposed on a daily basis to a diverse group of powerful role models. Therefore we have a responsibility to recruit retain develop and reward a diverse and talented staff from a wide range of backgrounds to join our creative mission-driven team.

The Boston Public Schools in accordance with its nondiscrimination policies does not discriminate in its programs facilities or employment or educational opportunities on the basis of race color age criminal record (inquiries only) disability homelessness sex/gender gender identity religion national origin ancestry sexual orientation genetics or military status and does not tolerate any form of retaliation or bias-based intimidation threat or harassment that demeans individuals dignity or interferes with their ability to learn or work.

Required Experience:

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