Clerk - Front Office; SY

Job Description

Holyoke Public Schools is a PreK-12 public school district serving nearly 4,800 students, of whom 80 percent are Latino/Latina, in 11 schools. We employ nearly 1,300 people who together educate and support a richly diverse community of learners.

• Maintains a regular filing system
• Screens phone calls; answers inquiries of a routing nature for parents or other callers
• Places and receives telephone calls, and records messages
• Maintains a schedule of appointments and makes arrangements for conferences and interviews
• Welcomes visitors and arranges for their comfort and screens unexpected callers in accordance with a predetermined policy
• Obtains, gathers, and organizes pertinent data as needed and puts it into usable form and maintains this data as required
• Types and files correspondence, notices as well as reports, memoranda, and other documents
• Answers general public inquiries
• Performs other related duties as needed

• High School Diploma or GED Certificate
• Excellent general office skills
• Type a minimum of 40 words per minute
• Documented, successful (3) years secretarial experience
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge of computers and word processing
• Bilingual encouraged to apply

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