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Jobs Washington – Receptionist | Sidwell Friends School September 2024

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Jobs Us – Sidwell Friends School is a PK–12, co-educational Quaker day school founded in 1883. Our Lower School (PK–4) is located on a five-acre campus blocks away from Metro in Bethesda, Maryland. Our Middle and Upper Schools are housed on a 15-acre campus in Washington, DC, less than a mile from Metro’s Tenleytown/AU station and on several bus lines.

 

Sidwell Friends School, jobs Washington

 

 

Sidwell Friends School is a dynamic educational community grounded in the Quaker belief that there is “that of God in everyone.” Individually and collectively, we challenge ourselves to pursue excellence in academic, athletic, and artistic realms. We are committed to the joys of exploration and discovery. Differences among us enhance intellectual inquiry, expand understanding, and deepen empathy. The Quaker pillars of the School inspire active engagement in environmental stewardship, global citizenship, and service. We find strength in reflection and shared silence. At the heart of each endeavor, we strive to discern deeper truths about ourselves and our common humanity, preparing students and adults to “let their lives speak.”

 

 

Sidwell Friends School affirms the centrality of diversity and inclusion in all aspects of academic and campus life. Honoring a multiplicity of voices, we celebrate shared joys and address tensions productively. Together, we are guided by Quaker testimonies and seek to answer the question, “How do we nurture a sense of belonging in our community and demonstrate our commitment to a just world?”

 

 

 

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Job Description :

  • Sidwell Friends, a coeducational Quaker day school with campuses in Washington, DC, and Bethesda, MD, seeks a full-time Receptionist for the Middle School (Grades 5-8). This 10-month position starts mid-August and ends mid-June of each school year. The Receptionist hours are 7:45am- 4:00pm, M-F.

 

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities :

 

  • 8:00am – 8:05 am Monitor late attendance, including ensuring that the student has signed in on the proper iPad during Silence. Provide frequent updates to the Office Administrator during the am Attendance process.
  • Be sure that all students arriving after 8:00am, sign-in on the late iPad and do not proceed upstairs until after silence at 8:05am. Be sure that all students arriving late sign in.
  • Be alert and attentive to anyone arriving at the entrance, as it is a perimeter entrance to the campus.
  • Ask questions to determine the identity of the person and only buzz in MS students who late arrival is – ensure they enter from 37th Street and sign in on the iPad.
  • Direct any visitors to Campus Services.
  • Answer MS phones with patience and calm presence and deliver messages and/or packages in a timely manner to faculty, students and staff.
  • Create and send the MS Daily Bulletin using Google slides. (Information from Faculty/Staff for inclusion will be sent by noon for the following day’s bulletin.).
  • Handle unexpected student/parent situations in the absence of Office Administrator, Principal or Assistant Principal.
  • Call nurse when student presents with medical issue.
  • Monitor office supplies every Tuesday in MS office, faculty room, and copy rooms. Monitor laminator and rolls of paper and alert Office Manager when the last roll is in the laminator. The Office Administrator orders paper from Staples. All other orders the Receptionist will place on Amazon for approval by the Office Administrator.
  • Oversee SmartTrip cards (Metrorail and Metrobus) – Maintain via a spreadsheet, balances for all cards. Ensure all cards are numbered and returned following use.
  • Filing, photocopying, collating and distribution of documents and packets as needed.
  • Actively uphold student expectations in lobby and other common space.
  • Provide support as needed to MS Faculty and Staff.
  • Attend required all-school professional development as makes sense.

 

 

Required Skills, Experience and Education :

 

  • Candidates must have a two- or four-year degree.
  • Two to five years’ experience in an administrative support role (preferred)
  • Proficiency with technology (Excel, Outlook, Google, Google Docs, Microsoft, Data Management system).
  • Ability to independently seek and share information as appropriate based on questions received.
  • Ability to manage work in an open environment.
  • Ability to work with adults and students alike.
  • Ability to multi-task.

 

 

Sidwell Friends School

3825 Wisconsin Ave, Washington, DC 20016

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