Administrative Assistant - Attendance at Southwest… · Fort Wayne

Summary: Southwest Allen County Schools is seeking an Administrative Assistant to provide secretarial support related to school attendance. The role involves processing attendance matters and requires effective communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities:
- Provides a wide variety of secretarial duties/functions as a support for the school and attendance matters
- Help in processing tardies, truancies, and other attendance items
- Uses judgment and initiative to determine the best approach or course of action for daily routine and non-routine situations

Required Qualifications:
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills in order to compose and edit correspondence, newsletters and other documents as well as communicate effectively with students, staff and the public
- Proven telephone etiquette
- Attention to detail, problem solving and organizational skills required with the ability to independently follow-up where necessary while maintaining confidentiality
- Requires basic math skills for daily usage

Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous school secretarial experience
- Proven computer usage as could be obtained by 1-2 years of experience
- Ability to deal successfully with a variety of individuals, including students, as evidenced by previous customer service experience
- Ability to be a team member

Required Skills: School secretarial experience, Computer usage, Customer service experience, Team member

Benefits: Fulltime, 9.5 month position and is eligible for benefits, This position is 8 hours per day