Office Assistant

Quora Secondary School

Opened in the fall of 2018, Quora Secondary School is designed to meet the unique needs of students in grades 9-12+, with expertise in EBD, ASD, and DCD. The team at Quora ensures that students unique interests and perspectives are reflective in their school experience, where students can make clear connections between what they learn in school, and what they need to succeed. At Quora, everyone is treated with respect, dignity and compassion.

Position Information

This position is a school year position, summers are off. Working Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (7 hours/day). The anticipated start date is August 2024.

Nature of Work

Incumbents are responsible for performing standard clerical and office support. Responsibilities may include: answering phones and directing calls greeting visitors sorting and distributing mail and maintaining records and reports.

Typical Class Responsibilities

• Performs reception duties including: greeting students and visitors in person or over the telephone answering phones and directing calls maintaining visitor security procedures, logs, and badges and notifying staff of visitor arrivals.
• Performs routine clerical duties including: receiving and distributing mail and packages maintaining employee mailroom mailboxes filing, faxing, copying, and printing setting up meetings maintaining office supplies and issuing and maintaining parking permits.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

Training and Experience Requirements

High School diploma or equivalent (G.E.D)

Knowledge Requirements

• Customer service principles
• Filing principles and practices
• Office procedures, methods, and equipment
• Recordkeeping and report preparing principles
• Computers and related software applications

Skill Requirements

• Providing customer service
• Filing
• Keyboarding
• Keeping records
• Operating modern office equipment
• Operating a computer and applicable software applications
• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction

Physical Requirements

Positions in this class typically require: reaching, standing, walking, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.

Commitment to Equity

At Northeast Metro 916, equity means that everyone has access to what they need in order to learn, grow and thrive.

Northeast Metro 916 will not discriminate against individuals based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, parental status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age or sexual orientation.