What are the responsibilities and job description for the Guild - Head Staff Assistant Grade 28 (Office Manager) (SY22-23) position at Boston Public Schools?
Grade Level: GUILD Elementary and Middle School (PreK-8)
Locations: UP Academy Dorchester
About UP Education Network
UP Education Network manages and operates six schools in Boston, Lawrence, and Springfield, MA. We serve over 3,000 elementary and middle school students. UP is invited by local school districts to restart chronically underperforming district schools as UP Academies. Each UP Academy shares the same mission: to ensure that students acquire the knowledge, skills, and strength of character necessary to succeed on the path to college and to achieve their full potential.
Role
The Office Manager plays a central role in ensuring a well-run, efficient, and responsive school. In addition to maintaining the school’s administrative systems and routines, the Office Manager functions as the primary contact person for all the school’s constituents. The Office Manager must be able to communicate effectively with students, teachers, families, trustees, donors, and visitors.
Specific Responsibilities
Your salary is commensurate with experience; UP Academy follows the salary scales of each UP Academy’s host school district. As an employee of UP Academy and your respective school district, you will receive the same access to personal and sick days, health insurance, and dental insurance as others within your union.
Working at UP Education Network
We know that great staff members directly lead to the success of our students. At UP, your career is shaped by:
The Boston Public Schools, in accordance with its nondiscrimination policies, does not discriminate in its programs, facilities, or employment or educational opportunities on the basis of race, color, age, criminal record (inquiries only), disability, homelessness, sex/gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, genetics or military status, and does not tolerate any form of retaliation, or bias-based intimidation, threat or harassment that demeans individuals’ dignity or interferes with their ability to learn or work.
Locations: UP Academy Dorchester
About UP Education Network
UP Education Network manages and operates six schools in Boston, Lawrence, and Springfield, MA. We serve over 3,000 elementary and middle school students. UP is invited by local school districts to restart chronically underperforming district schools as UP Academies. Each UP Academy shares the same mission: to ensure that students acquire the knowledge, skills, and strength of character necessary to succeed on the path to college and to achieve their full potential.
Role
The Office Manager plays a central role in ensuring a well-run, efficient, and responsive school. In addition to maintaining the school’s administrative systems and routines, the Office Manager functions as the primary contact person for all the school’s constituents. The Office Manager must be able to communicate effectively with students, teachers, families, trustees, donors, and visitors.
Specific Responsibilities
- Oversee the day to day activities of the school
- Serve as the main point of contact in the school reception area, greeting and documenting all visitors
- Manage phones (answering calls, re-directing calls, taking messages, placing calls, creating school announcements, etc.)
- Manage the collection and maintenance of student, personnel, and school information
- Manage school-wide daily systems, including attendance
- Plan and manage logistics and preparations for school events and activities as needed;
- Manage school maintenance and supply systems, office equipment, and furnishings
- Maintain school calendar of events
- A strong belief in UP Education Network’s core values: Students, Community, Humility, Resilience, and Humor
- Fluency in Spanish is highly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree is preferred
- Current authorization to work in the United States – A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment
Your salary is commensurate with experience; UP Academy follows the salary scales of each UP Academy’s host school district. As an employee of UP Academy and your respective school district, you will receive the same access to personal and sick days, health insurance, and dental insurance as others within your union.
Working at UP Education Network
We know that great staff members directly lead to the success of our students. At UP, your career is shaped by:
- Opportunities for immediate impact: UP offers a chance to bring best practices found in high-performing schools to students previously enrolled in struggling schools, and to rapidly unlock the potential of these students
- Talented, mission-driven colleagues: Our staff is enthusiastic, dedicated, and willing to do “whatever it takes” to put every student on the path to college
- Collaboration and teamwork: Staff members collaborate and work closely together on grade-level or content area teams, using data to track student performance as well as guide instructional practice
- Consistent professional growth and development: Members of our staff typically have bi-weekly check-in meetings with their managers where they receive targeted coaching and support and the entire staff participates in weekly professional development sessions during the school year, kick-started by extensive training in August.
The Boston Public Schools, in accordance with its nondiscrimination policies, does not discriminate in its programs, facilities, or employment or educational opportunities on the basis of race, color, age, criminal record (inquiries only), disability, homelessness, sex/gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, genetics or military status, and does not tolerate any form of retaliation, or bias-based intimidation, threat or harassment that demeans individuals’ dignity or interferes with their ability to learn or work.
