Front Desk Receptionist

SUMMARY: The receptionist provides clerical support to students, parents, staff, and community members. This position exemplifies quality customer service and ensures that the front desk operates efficiently and effectively.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Places, receives, and routes telephone calls; records and delivers messages, and makes appointments.
2. Greets visitors in a professional and courteous manner and ensures that visitors complete the check-in process to enter the building.
3. Receives, sorts, and distributes mail to appropriate staff.
4. Maintains confidentiality of information.
5. Assists in providing information and/or assistance as directed by administration to staff.
6. Prepares correspondences, forms, etc. for the office staff.
7. Promotes a positive image of the school district to the public.
8. Reports regularly and punctually to assigned work location and notifies supervisor or designee of impending absence in a timely manner.
9. Any other duties as assigned by district-level administration.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

1. High school diploma or GED.
2. Excellent phone etiquette and communication skills.
3. Proficient typing, data entry, and filing skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT:

Environment: Standard office and school settings; moderate travel; exposure to potentially stressful environments; regularly perform inside and/or outside with potential for exposure to adverse environmental conditions.


Physical: Sufficient physical ability to perform moderate lifting up to 20 pounds; regularly required to walk, sit or stand for prolonged periods of time; may require climbing, stooping, kneeling, or crouching.


Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents.


Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction; the noise level in the work environment is moderate.