Receptionist- School

PART TIME RECEPTIONIST

• Fantastic hours 8:00-3:00- 3 days per week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (21 hours/week), working in a therapeutic school for students with Autism.
• Competitive hourly rate $21.00 commensurate with experience.
• Previous administrative/front desk experience preferred.
• Position available starting mid-December.

Make a difference in the life of a child with Autism and join our school team!

Seeking individual to answer phones, welcome visitors, perform clerical/administrative tasks at school front desk, with patience and compassion for individual differences of students with special needs in a one-of-a-kind therapeutic day school in Lombard, IL serving students with Autism, ages 5 to 22 years old.

Essential Functions

• Answers and transfers phone calls, screening when necessary
• Welcomes and directs visitors and customers
• Assist with ordering office supplies and coordinating maintenance of office equipment Reports daily student attendance as required
• Makes building announcements as necessary
• Processes staff ID’s and other items as requested
• Receives and reviews checks for bookkeeper
• Receives mail, documents, packages, and courier deliveries and delivers or distributes items
• Performs administrative and clerical support tasks
• Student attendance tracking (daily)
• Laminating materials for all pods upon request
• Track all staff training (via google
• training sign in document)
• Coordinates facilities maintenance requests and maintain documentation of requests

• Manages building signage and drill information; evacuation routes and instructions
• Works with busing companies regarding scheduling and procedures and updates sheets as necessary
• Maintain parking lot cones as necessary
• Maintain/updates student emergency contact lists and busing contact list
• Maintains confidentiality with information you are privy to in your role including but not limited to: personnel information, personnel issues, SEA practices, policies or programming, student/family information, issues or enrollment, or issues related to placing school districts.
• Performs other related duties as assignedQualifications

· Minimum of a High School diploma or equivalent.

· Previous administrative/front desk experience preferred.

· Ability to modulate and demonstrate affect appropriate to the situation.

· Ability to sustain a calm, positive presence during challenges and throughout the day.

· Professional demeanor.

· Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills with staff, students, parents, districts and the general public using tact, patience and courtesy.

· Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills and appropriate telephone techniques and etiquette.

· Ability to understand and carry out written and oral instructions.

· Knowledge of modern office practices, procedures and equipment.

· Proficient computer skills including Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, G Suite/Google docs, etc.

· Good understanding of clerical procedures and systems such as record keeping and filing.

· Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

· Ability to work independently completing tasks in a timely manner.

· Ability to appreciate and respect each student and interact with children demonstrating patience, kindness and compassion.

· Willingness to accept and request direction/guidance and suggestions from others and apply/implement those suggestions in the position.

· Ability to follow SEA governance and SEA procedures for interacting with and supporting/directing parents and staff when issues are brought to your attention, holding confidentiality.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Ability to act and respond to a student’s dysregulation/behavior/combative and aggressive actions (which may include unpredictable physical conduct by the student against you) according to the strategies recommended by their supporting staff, that have been developed in the student’s Individualized Regulatory Support Plan and Safety Plan.
• Ability to quickly move away from, run and avoid combative/aggressive actions or behaviors of students.
• Ability to bend, kneel, sit (on a chair or the floor) and stand moving easily and quickly from kneel to stand, sit to stand and stand to walk positions.
• Ability to walk up to a mile in distance.
• Ability to sit working at a computer for extended periods of time.
• Ability to bend, kneel or crouch to file materials and reach overhead and above shoulders to retrieve files and materials.
• Ability to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Soaring Eagle Academy (SEA) a not for profit, ISBE approved therapeutic day school located in Lombard, IL, specialized to serve children and young adults with Autism and complex emotional and behavioral challenges, which may result in students becoming verbally and/or physically aggressive (in some cases without warning), within a fast paced, student and family-centered, highly relational and collaborative environment.

We are a trauma-informed school utilizing proactive strategies to interpret the actions and behaviors of students as communication in response to stress, instead of using behavioral methods of time out, consequences and rewards and will only use physical intervention of restraint/carry/holds in times of imminent danger of serious physical harm to student or others and when other less restrictive and intrusive interventions have failed, and only implemented by trained crisis responders/crisis team members. We believe that the "behaviors" others see as impacting education for these students are a result of their lack of comprehension and challenges to process sensory and social/emotional information from their environment and communication partners. With our appropriate interpretation of their intentions, our language-based strategies and emotional and sensory supports- our students are soaring. Join our team! For more information, please visit our website at www.soaringeagleacademy.org

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $21.00 per hour

Expected hours: 21 per week

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program
• Referral program

Work Location: In person

Salary : $21