Bookkeeper-Meadowview Middle School

High School Lead Secretary

School qualifications: Minimum high school diploma or G.E.D. Minimum one year of experience so that with appropriate training, services may be provided in the specific role for which employed. Knowledge of typing, office machines, and computers. Meets health and physical requirements.

Job goal: To prepare, transcribe, systemize, and preserve written communications and records.

Essential functions: Composes or transcribes correspondence, bulletins, and memoranda from rough drafts. Prepares communications using various types of office equipment. Disburses funds, records financial transactions, and audits and balances student organization and other school fund accounts. Maintains an inventory of office and school supplies. Maintains such student records as may be required. As directed by principal, assists teachers in preparing instructional materials. Receives and routes all incoming calls. Greets visitors and maintains log of visitors to the school. Assumes responsibility for knowing and following all safety rules and proper procedures. Supervises student office workers. Schedules meetings, sets appointments, and maintains calendars. Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical demands: This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 25 lbs., with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 lbs. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows: pushing, pulling, climbing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, talking, hearing, seeing.

Vocational preparation: The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following: vocational education, apprentice training, on-the-job training, essential experience.

Temperament: Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria. Adaptability to dealing with people.

Capacity and ability requirements: Intelligence: Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments. Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them. Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. Data perception: Ability to understand and interpret information which may be presented in the form of graphs, charts, or tables. Manual dexterity: Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately. Form perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures. Motor coordination: Ability to coordinate the eyes and hands or fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed. Color discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work conditions: Normal working environment; may not always have privacy or quiet place to work.

Terms of employment: High school lead secretary, 224-day contract. High school lead secretary salary scale.