Office Assistant

Office Assistant

This is an 11-month position starting on the first Monday of August and ending on the last Friday of June. July is off without pay. This position assists the office staff and superintendent in accordance with Calhoun Community High School goals and applicable laws and regulations.

Job duties include answering phone, taking messages or forwarding calls as necessary, greeting persons entering school, determining nature and purpose of visit, and directing or escorting them to specific destinations. The role also involves filing and maintaining records, collecting, sorting, distributing, and preparing mail, providing information about school to the general public, answering inquiries and obtaining information for general public, students, visitors, and other interested parties, maintaining district website, assisting with completing the Registry of Educational Personnel report, assisting with purchasing and graduation, beginning enrollment process with new enrollees, establishing an organizational system for the office, attending board meetings if Business Office Coordinator is unable to attend, and other duties as assigned.

Supervises none.

Education and experience:

high school diploma required, some college or bachelor's degree preferred.

Physical and mental requirements: job requires extended use of computer. Ability to sit, stand, walk, speak, listen, taste, and smell. Ability to understand meaning of words and articulate effective responses. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

Work environment: typically, quiet environment with sporadic periods of loud noise. Office environment with heat and air conditioning.

Pay and benefits:

$17.00 per hour, 20% 401K, medical benefits paid for single person.