Job Description
Substitute School Secretary Location Cleveland, OH (Downtown area) : Position Type: Substitute Job Families Date Posted: 2024-01-02 Location:Administration or As Assigned INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD's approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland's schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district's Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective. Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World: In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment. THE OPPORTUNITY: Supports all functions of the school office including interacting with students, staff, families, and community members in a manner characterized by respect, concern, and commitment to support and serve, performs administrative duties to support principal and supervises the maintenance of records and the preparation and issuance of orders, permits, licenses, certificates, requisitions and reports. Responsibilities
- Becomes familiar with District initiatives including but not limited to The Cleveland Plan, Academic Achievement Plans, etc.
- Meets, greets, and interacts with students, staff, families, and community members in a manner characterized by respect, concern, and commitment to support and serve
- Upon completion of Districts training, ability to utilize various District software packages (i.e., Microsoft Outlook email, FMS, Sierra, etc)
- Answers telephones and relays messages
- Assists parents, staff, students, and visitors
- Opens and disseminates mail
- Address, stuff, and stamp envelopes
- Maintains student permanent records, attendance records, and transcripts
- Types/word processes and proofs a variety of school related materials
- Maintains appropriate files
- Operates a variety of office machines
- Serves as back up in the absence of other secretary/secretaries
- Performs other secretarial-related duties
Qualifications - High School Diploma or GED required
- Computer, word processing, and data entry skills, including creating spreadsheets, letters, and reports using programs such as Microsoft Excel, Word, and Microsoft Outlook email
- Satisfactory skills assessment profile in keyboarding, word processing (Microsoft Word and Language (Basic Grammar)
- Five years secretarial or clerical experience required. Three years of district experience preferred
- Additional business or secretarial training preferred
- Working knowledge of office automation
- Excellent organizational, communication and customer service skills
Education To Apply Please submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen. EEO Statement We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. The District's Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District's Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District's Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District's Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at: 1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800 Cleveland, Ohio 44114 (216)-838-0070 TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org
Job Tags
Permanent employment, Full time, Work at office,