What are the responsibilities and job description for the School Receptionist position at Great Hearts Texas?
Title: School Receptionist
Location: Great Hearts Arlington Lower School
About Great Hearts Academies
Great Hearts Academies is the largest network of classical K-12 schools in the country with academies across Arizona, Louisiana, and Texas. With a mission to cultivate the minds and hearts of students through the pursuit of Truth, Goodness and Beauty, we believe the highest goal of education is to become good, intellectually, and morally.
Additional information can be found at http://www.greatheartsamerica.org/.
What does Great Hearts have to offer?
We offer a range of distinctive benefits designed to support the well-being and growth of our faculty and staff:
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Exceptional medical, dental, and vision insurance with minimal employee contribution.
- Retirement Planning: Access to the Texas Teacher Retirement System.
- Supportive & Mission-Driven Culture: Join a workplace centered around true collegiality, collaboration, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Salary: $16-19/hour
Please apply directly using this link: https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg04/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=GREATHEARTS&cws=40&rid=2601
Duties & Responsibilities
Manages all front office traffic including late students, parents, and visitors. In this capacity the receptionist will:
- Visitor credential verification to enter campus site and to pick up students
- Utilizing PowerSchool to locate student schedule for parent pick-ups
- Communicating with teachers on student pick-ups
- Direct late students to SIS Coordination
Maintains copies of forms, events, and related information for the campus site. This includes:
- Organizing essential forms and documents for families.
- Copying materials to ensure there is always a supply of all documents at hand
- Communicating effectively with Campus Lead Team and Campus Ops team to ensure all documents for activities, events, etc. are current
- Maintaining confidentiality of records as appropriate
- Collaborating with appropriate team members to establish a system of transferring student records, ie. Dropping off records in a sealed folder in SIS office, Health Services Coordinators office, etc.
Serves as a liaison between parents, students and team members. This includes:
- Answers phone calls
- Communicating morning announcements to students and team members
- Exercise good judgment and excellent customer service
Qualifications, Competencies, and Strengths
- High School Diploma or GED
- Proficient keyboarding skills
- One year of clerical in-office setting or working in a school’s front office preferred
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships
- Ability to organize confidential data efficiently.
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with students, parents, co-workers and the public at large
- Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
- Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
- We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to a high level of conduct, professionalism, and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students
Additional Requirements
Must complete Texas Department of Public Safety fingerprint clearance and background check.
Physical functions: Requires but is not limited to standing, sitting, repetitious hand and body movements, bending, squatting, and reaching. May be required to move or position equipment up to 15 pounds approximately.
This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not exclude or restrict the additional tasks that may be assigned.
Great Hearts Academies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $16.00 - $19.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
Salary : $16 - $19