Metro Heights Academy

Metro Heights Academy is an Area Learning Center (ALC) designed to help students achieve their educational and career goals in a nontraditional learning environment. We offer a comprehensive and rigorous high school curriculum delivered within a personalized, flexible, and nurturing environment. Students receive assistance in meeting graduation requirements and have opportunities to gain vocational skills and work experience. To learn more about Metro Heights Academy, click here.

Position Information

This positon is an 8 hour/day position, scheduled to work 260 days per year. The starting hourly rate is $23.61 per hour. This position is fully benefit eligible, please click here to review the full contract and benefits offered.

Nature of Work

Incumbents are responsible for performing standard clerical and office support. Responsibilities may include: answering phones and directing calls; greeting visitors; sorting and distributing mail; and maintaining records and reports.

Typical Class Responsibilities

Performs reception duties including: greeting students and visitors in person or over the telephone; answering phones and directing calls; maintaining visitor security procedures, logs, and badges; and notifying staff of visitor arrivals.
Performs routine clerical duties including: receiving and distributing mail and packages; maintaining employee mailroom mailboxes; filing, faxing, copying, and printing; setting up meetings; maintaining office supplies; and issuing and maintaining parking permits.
Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

Training and Experience Requirements

High School diploma or equivalent (G.E.D)

Knowledge Requirements

Customer service principles
Filing principles and practices
Office procedures, methods, and equipment
Recordkeeping and report preparing principles
Computers and related software applications

Skill Requirements

Providing customer service
Filing
Keyboarding
Keeping records
Operating modern office equipment
Operating a computer and applicable software applications
Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction

Physical Requirements

Positions in this class typically require: reaching, standing, walking, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.

Commitment to Equity

At Northeast Metro 916, equity means that everyone has access to what they need in order to learn, grow and thrive.

Northeast Metro 916 will not discriminate against individuals based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, parental status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Office Assistant