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Receptionist- IDEA Kyle (Immediate Opening)

Employer
IDEA Public Schools
Location
Kyle, TX, United States
Salary
Competitive

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Description

Role Mission: The mission for the receptionist is to support students, families and team members by providing excellent customer service and serving as the first point-of-contact for students, parents, visitors and phone inquiries. The receptionist will focus primarily on ensuring parent satisfaction and ensuring families' needs are met by sharing information, coordinating with other team members, and greeting all visitors.

What You'll Do - Accountabilities:

Manages all front office traffic including late students, parents, and visitors. In this capacity the receptionist will:
  • Ensuring each visitor has the appropriate credentials to enter campus site and to pick up students
  • Utilizing PowerSchool to locate student schedule for parent pick-ups
  • Communicating with teachers on student pick-ups
  • Direct visitors to appropriate team member
  • Direct late students to SIS Coordinator

Maintains copies of forms, events, and related information for the campus site and IDEA Public Schools. This includes:
  • Organizing essential forms and documents for families including FARM applications, uniform guide, applications, etc. in a binder, portfolio, etc.
  • Copying materials to ensure there is always a supply of all documents at hand
  • Communicating effectively with Campus Lead Team and Campus Ops team to ensure all documents for activities, events, etc. are current

Coordinates and transfers student records to appropriate team member. This includes:
  • Maintaining confidentiality of records as appropriate
  • Collaborating with appropriate team members to establish system of transferring student records, ie. Dropping off records in a sealed folder in SIS office, Health Services Coordinators office, etc.

Answers phone calls by providing general information and/or connecting call to appropriate team member. This includes:
  • Familiarizing with various roles and duties of team members ie. SIS manages all schedule changes, APO manages all student absences inquiries, etc.
  • Managing a list of extensions and ensuring list remains updated throughout the year

Serves as a liaison between parents, students and team members. This includes:
  • Communicating morning announcements to students and team members
  • Exemplifying IDEA core values and exemplar customer service skills
  • Provides lead team support as needed. This includes:
    • Recruiting students for the following school year if needed
    • Exercise good judgment and excellent customer service:
      • Answering all phone calls
      • Greeting parents, students, visitors

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:
  • Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
  • Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
  • Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
  • Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
  • Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
  • Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
  • Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
  • We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students


What You Bring -- Competencies:
  • Mission Focus - focuses on IDEA's core purpose of getting all students into college
  • Record of Results - holds high expectations for self and others to achieve and surpass intended goals
  • Problem Solving - able to synthesize, analyze, and prioritize data and opportunities to develop strategies for achieving quantifiable goals
  • Communication - effectively conveys information using a variety of channels and techniques
  • Continuous Improvement - proactively identifies opportunities to improve and consistently reflects on past actions to guide future decisions

Qualifications:
  • Education: High school diploma or GED
  • Experience: One year of clerical experience in office setting


Knowledge and Skills:
  • Proficient keyboarding skills
  • Effective organization, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to follow written instructions and operate multi-line phone system

What We Offer

Compensation:
  • Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate ranging between $16.43 for 0 years of experience and $18.45


Other Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, com-muter benefits, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan. We also offer an inclusive environment where staff are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work every day. IDEA may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

To Apply

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About IDEA Public Schools

At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States.

IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report's top high schools lists. IDEA serves nearly 75,000 college-bound students in 137 schools across Texas, Southern Louisiana and Florida and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you-with new launches in Jacksonville, FL (2022). Cincinnati, OH (2022), and Arkansas (2023)!

When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.

Company

IDEA Public Schools believes that each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States. IDEA currently serves nearly 66,000 college-bound students in 120 schools across Texas and Louisiana and is gearing up to open schools in Florida for the 2021-2022 school year.

Interested in learning more about working at IDEA Public Schools? 

Visit us at www.ideapublicschools.org/careers.

Company info
Website
Telephone
956-377-8000
Location
2115 W. Pike Blvd
Weslaco
TX
78596
US

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