Treasurer

Treasurer

Serves as the District's Treasurer and chief fiscal officer, responsible for the receipt, investment, safekeeping, and disbursement of all district funds. Oversees the District's financial operations, accounting systems, payroll administration, financial reporting, and compliance with applicable federal and state laws, regulations, and Board policies.

Essential Functions:

• Financial Management and Accounting
• Payroll and Budget Administration
• Board Governance and Records Management
• Compliance and External Reporting
• Financial Planning and Labor Relations
• Communication and Professional Responsibilities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Five to ten years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, finance, governmental accounting, or a related field.
• Appropriate State of Ohio certification and/or licensure.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of governmental accounting principles, financial reporting standards, and school finance practices.
• Proficiency in accounting, payroll, and spreadsheet software applications.
• Knowledge of budget development, financial forecasting, and investment management.
• Ability to research, interpret, and apply applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

Working Conditions:

• Occasional travel, including overnight travel.
• Occasional evening, weekend, and summer work.
• Occasional operation of a motor vehicle in adverse weather conditions.
• Occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling of materials weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Frequent use of a computer, calculator, telephone, and other office equipment requiring repetitive hand movements.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching, bending, kneeling, stooping, speaking, hearing, and viewing computer screens.
• Occasional interaction with disruptive or unruly individuals.
• Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and other potentially infectious materials.

About Our District:

The Garfield Heights City Schools collaboratively and cooperatively serve students and families of the City of Garfield Heights. Located in Cuyahoga County and bordered on the north by the City of Cleveland proper, and on all other sides by the first ring communities of Northeast Ohio. Our District proudly serves approximately 3,500 students in three Kindergarten through Grade 5 schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district also provides an award-winning Preschool program to educate the youngest students in our community at William Foster Elementary. All those who seek academic, co-curricular, student leadership, diversity, and community engagement success, can find these things and more in the Garfield Heights City Schools.

As a product of our community-based strategic planning process completed in 2021, our district's mission is: As the heart of the community, Garfield Heights City Schools fully prepares students to pursue their dreams and give back as engaged citizens and future leaders. Our vision is: to become a premier educational institution, recognized throughout Ohio as fully preparing students to be leaders equipped with real-world skills to contribute to a global society.

The Garfield Heights City School prides itself on providing a rigorous and comprehensive pre-k through 12th-grade educational curriculum that clearly focuses on student success through college and career readiness. To that end, Garfield Heights High School offers a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including AP English, AP Government, AP American History, Honors Chemistry, Honors Calculus, Honors Physical Science, and more. While the District offers these high-level academic courses, the GHCS also proudly sends more than 225 students on an annual basis to the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center for those individuals deeply interested in learning a skilled profession or hands-on expertise in one of the trades. Middle School students have increasingly greater opportunities to prepare themselves for high school and parents are readily encouraged to be involved. Elementary School students in the GHCS also participate in such valuable literacy programs as LETRs and social/emotional initiatives as the Zones of Regulation. The GHCS places a great deal of emphasis at all levels of education on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (P.B.I.S.) and each school has won awards from the State of Ohio for encouraging and promoting positive behavior. A wide variety of co-curricular offerings are available to students of all ages in the Garfield Heights City Schools as well. Such opportunities include more than 18 varsity sports, the district's show choir, Music Express, Marching Band, Theater, A Capella Choir, National Honor Society, Student Council, Glass Ceiling, Future Engineers, and more. These co-curricular offerings are award-winning on the state, regional and local levels. Students can expect success when they become involved in the various academic, co-curricular, and student leadership organizations in this District.

Garfield Heights City Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, genetic information, race, color, age, religion, disabilities, military status, sexual orientation, or national origin in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities.

Application Deadline: Until position has been filled. To Apply: On-line