Clerical Substitute 25-26 School Year
Clerical Substitute
Position purpose: Under the direct supervision of the building principal or other administrator, to provide a wide variety of complex and confidential administrative and secretarial support and address a variety of issues and/or provide general support necessary to ensure efficient and effective school district operations.
Essential functions:
- Composes routine and complex documents.
- Prepares copies and distributes notices, memoranda or other correspondence.
- Assists visitors to the office, including students, parents, substitutes teachers, maintenance workers and others.
- Process incoming mail for the purpose of sorting items in terms of importance and known priorities; send outgoing mail.
- Responds to inquiries (including telephone calls) from students, parents and employees, providing information, facilitating communication among parties and/or providing direction.
Additional duties: Performs other related duties, as assigned, for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the office and school building.
Equipment: Uses standard office equipment such as personal computer, copy machine, fax machine, telephone.
Travel requirements: Limited travel to and from various buildings on campus may be required.
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
- Ability to describe problems and work orally or in writing to supervisor as needed.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others contacted in the course of work.
- Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide, and perform arithmetic computations.
- Ability to understand, apply and use personal computers and software applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Ability to problem-solve job-related issues.
- Ability to work with a diverse group of individuals.
- Ability to process paperwork accurately according to standardized procedures.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding students, employees and others, financial information, etc.
- Organizational, scheduling, and time management skills.
Physical and mental demands, work hazards: Works in standard office and school building environments. Ability to work outdoors during outdoor student activities.
Qualification profile: Any combination of education and experience providing the required skill and knowledge for successful performance would be qualifying. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to: Graduation from high school. Associates degree with course work in business, word processing, office procedures/record keeping beneficial. Successful experience of an increasingly responsible nature in public service, and executive administrative assistance or executive secretarial position.
DSD is an Equal Opportunity Employer