<p>Job Description:</p> <p>Administrative Assistant (10-month position)</p> <p>Windsor Locks High School</p> <p>Position Start Date: August 2025</p> <p>Application Closing Date: Open until filled</p> <p>JOB SUMMARY:</p> <p>Provides administrative assistant services to assure the smooth and efficient operation of the High School office so that the office's maximum positive impact on the education of children can be realized.</p> <p>ESSENTIAL DUTIES, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:</p> <ul> <li>Maintains an efficient and professional office environment. </li><li>Performs reception duties including assisting parents, students, staff or visitors who enter or call campus, directing inquiries to the proper staff member, scheduling appointments for parents and students, and calling students to the office as needed. </li><li>Prepares student folders and maintains accurate and updated files. </li><li>Assists in language translation as requested by administration. </li><li>Transcribes various types of correspondence, reports, notices and forms. </li><li>Assembles material, compiles and organizes pertinent data as needed and put into usable form. </li><li>Places and receives telephone calls, records messages, makes appointments, schedules conferences, and provides general information regarding procedural matters. </li><li>Greets visitors, parents or students; provides general information or refers to proper office. </li><li>Maintains inventory of equipment, materials and supplies and orders supplies as needed. </li><li>Performs any bookkeeping tasks associated with the specific position, including payroll, purchase orders, accounts payable and personnel records. </li><li>Receives and checks in deliveries to school to assure acceptability and conformity with purchase orders. </li><li>Completes federal, state and local forms and reports as required. </li><li>Maintains as required a systematic filing system and sets of records such as financial and personal (staff and students) for the school or district. </li><li>Performs the usual office routines and practices associated with a busy yet productive and smoothly-run office. </li><li>Composes letters and memos. </li><li>Prepares and distributes bulletins, newsletters, memoranda, directives, reports and statements as required by the Principal. </li><li>Database insertion. </li><li>Assists in maintaining the Master Calendar </li><li>Assists in the planning and organization of special events. </li><li>Assists in the absence of another secretary. </li><li>Performs other duties as appropriate and required. </li></ul> <p>Rate of Pay: Per Contract</p> <p>Windsor Locks Public Schools does not discriminate in any employment practice on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by Connecticut state and/or federal nondiscrimination law. Windsor Locks Public Schools does not unlawfully discriminate in employment and licensing against qualified persons with a prior criminal conviction. Windsor Locks Public Schools is committed to a policy of equal opportunity/affirmative action for all qualified persons.</p>