Highlights
Ability to adjust priorities quickly while helping ensure the school office and administrative team continue to operate efficiently. Answer incoming telephone calls , take accurate messages, respond to routine inquiries, and direct calls appropriately.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Briarwood, New York |
| Industry | Nonprofit Charitable Organizations |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 1891 |
| Website | https://sco.org/careers/working-at-sco |
Description
Qualifications & Responsibilities
- High school diploma or equivalent required; Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Previous administrative experience, preferably in a school, special education, behavioral health, or human services setting.
- Provide daily administrative support to the Principal and other school administrators.
- Manage and organize administrators’ daily schedules, including meetings, appointments, observations, phone calls, deadlines, and other responsibilities.
- Answer incoming telephone calls, take accurate messages, respond to routine inquiries, and direct calls appropriately.
- Demonstrate strong organizational and time-management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Remain calm, professional, and responsive during student or staff crises, behavioral incidents, and emergencies.
- Assist administrators in coordinating staff and student needs during crisis situations and ensure necessary personnel are notified.
- Communicate professionally with students, staff, families, visitors, outside agencies, and community partners.
- Assist with preparing and maintaining correspondence, incident documentation, reports, schedules, records, and administrative files.
- Demonstrate the ability to support and appropriately interact with students with emotional, behavioral, intellectual, and developmental needs.
- Maintain strict confidentiality regarding student, family, staff, behavioral, medical, and administrative information.
- Demonstrate sound judgment, professionalism, and appropriate boundaries when handling sensitive or confidential matters.
- Possess strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrate patience, reliability, flexibility, initiative, and emotional composure, particularly during stressful or unexpected situations.
- Ability to adjust priorities quickly while helping ensure the school office and administrative team continue to operate efficiently.
*Compensation for this position is $18.00-$21.50 per hour, based on experience and qualifications*
SCO Family of Services is an Equal Opportunity Employment Employer.
About Company
In collaboration with others, the mission of Family Service is to provide quality programs and services, which effectively assist and strengthen individuals and families in our community.
Family Service provides more than 5,000,000 meals each year through a USDA food program in 85 Nebraska counties. This program feeds almost 21,000 children in more than 1,312 licensed home child-care facilities.
Family Service delivers the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program to 3,000 people in Lancaster County each month. Services include nutrition and breast feeding education as well as formula, milk and other staples.
Family Service cares for more than 1,700 children who take part in our child care and early childhood programs based in 20 Lincoln Public Schools.
Family Service counsels families and individuals with behavioral health sessions at 13 specific local schools.
Family Service partners with a variety of federal, state, local and non-profit agencies to make available a number of other innovative programs to assist Nebraska families.
Family Service Early Childhood and Youth Development programs granted over $694,000 in free and reduced rate scholarships to children during 2011-2012 school year.
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