Elementary School Secretary- MacArthur for the 2025/26 school year

Position:                      Elementary School Secretary (2025/26 School Year)

Qualifications:             Minimum 2-year Associates Degree or above (preferred)

                                    High School Diploma or GED (required)

                                    Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills

                                    Demonstrate an ability to work well with colleagues

                                    Demonstrate an ability to work well with children

FLSA Status:                Non-Exempt, Hourly 

Reports To:                  Building Principal

Essential Job Functions: 

• Utilize technology to effectively create a variety of correspondence, reports, notices, recommendations, monthly newsletters, and daily bulletins
• Maintain a daily teacher attendance log and all documentation regarding substitute teachers
• Prepare and process requisitions for instructional material and classroom supplies
• Organize and maintain an effective filing system
• Request, receive, and process all incoming and outgoing student records, update cumulative files, and process student records upon request from receiving schools
• Communicate effectively, including answering the office telephone and responding appropriately to requests for information
• Process incoming and outgoing correspondence as instructed
• Welcome all school visitors courteously, determine their needs, check appointments, and direct or escort them to the proper person
• Supervise the collection of attendance reports from the classroom and maintain the daily attendance sheets
• Provide attendance information to the guidance counselors and principal, specifically those cases of chronic absenteeism, tardiness, or truancy. 
• Maintain a complete and systematic set of records of all financial transactions of the school
• Calculate and record cash receipt summaries
• Assist with coordinating and scheduling meetings such as parent meetings, 504 meetings, IEP meetings, etc, under the guidance of the principal
• Other administrative duties as assigned
• Regular attendance at work

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions:

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
• Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
• Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead

Terms of Employment:  Salary and work year will be determined by the Board

Evaluation: Performance will be evaluated according to the provisions of the Board’s policy on evaluating Classified Personnel.

Fort Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, or promotion on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, veteran's status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status under local, state, or federal law.