Front Desk Receptionist

Receptionist

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:

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

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Excellent phone etiquette and communication skills.
• 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.