Receptionist

Position Type:

Secretarial/Clerical/Receptionist

Date Posted:

5/30/2025

Location:

High School North Building

Date Available:

08/18/2025

Closing Date:

Open Until Filled

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Notice of Support Staff Posting

Position: Receptionist Posting # 3748

• West Ottawa High School North

Posting Dates: May 30, 2025 - Until Filled

Reports To: Principal

Beginning: August 18, 2025

Hours: 35 Hours a week

7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Monday to Friday

Full Time/School Year

Job Responsibilities:

• Front Desk Support:

• Perform a variety of receptionist and clerical duties to support the principal, school office, and counseling department, ensuring smooth daily operations.

• Communication & Public Relations:

• Serve as a welcoming and helpful first point of contact for students, staff, families, and visitors. Provide friendly, professional, and accurate communication both in person and via phone/email to represent the school in a positive manner.

Other Information:

• Proficiency with Technology:

• Demonstrated experience and proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) and Google Workspace tools (Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Calendar, etc.).

• Organizational and Communication Skills:

• Must be highly organized with strong clerical abilities, attention to detail, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Welcoming Presence:

• Must be friendly, upbeat, and approachable, creating a positive and professional first impression for students, staff, families, and visitors.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
• The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance.