Secretary ; Creekside Community High School

Job Title:

School Secretary 3

Principal and/or designee

0.9375 (7.5 hours a day)

As soon as possible after hire

Creekside is a small, innovative alternative high school grounded in community, mutual support, and a deep commitment to honoring each person’s humanity. We are more than a school—we're a family—and every member of our team plays a vital role in creating a space where students and staff can thrive. We are currently seeking a compassionate, organized, and tech‑savvy school secretary to join our team.

This role is central to the smooth and welcoming daily operation of our school.

• Serve as the warm and professional first point of contact at the front desk, greeting students, families, and visitors.
• Manage and track student attendance records with accuracy and care.
• Support staff and students with basic technology coordination and troubleshooting.
• Maintain clear communication with staff, families, and district partners.
• Assist with general office tasks that support school operations.
• Respond appropriately in emergency and crisis situations.
• Make independent decisions within established guidelines and reporting structure.
• Communicate sensitive information to staff, students, parents, and community members as required.
• Respect the confidentiality of administration, staff, students, and organizations of the community.
• Follow proper procedures for dispensing medication and giving first aid.
• Complete simple to complex assignments with a minimum of instruction or supervision.
• Use math skills to manage accounting needs including purchasing procedures, budget allocations, and spreadsheets.
• Use computer skills to learn district computer programs and systems.
• Use modern professional secretarial skills to produce work in a timely, properly formatted manner.
• Produce correspondence, technical and professional reports, newsletters, booklets, manuals, guides, schedules and forms.
• Identify potential workplace problems and notify appropriate personnel.
• Prioritize multi‑tasks from a variety of sources, ensuring timely completion.
• Assist in building and maintaining an office team to support administration and schools.
• Maintain a calm professional environment during times of interruption and disruption.
• Demonstrate strong command of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, word usage, and sentence construction.
• Follow current office practices and procedures.
• Operate computers and accompanying programs (word processing, database, spreadsheets, district assigned programs).
• Show flexibility in accepting assignments from office manager with deadlines and re‑prioritizing work.
• Comprehend oral and written instructions and complete work within established forms and timelines.
• Be open to suggestions for improvement of skills and performance.
• Perform as a team member of the department and entire school.
• May be assigned substitute clerical staff to train, or student assistants to monitor.
• Spanish speaking preferred.

• Type letters, reports, forms, newsletters, handbooks, bulletins, memoranda and meeting minutes, including confidential material; write letters from rough notes or oral instructions; compose correspondence independently on routine matters not involving deviation from established policy.
• Type instructional materials from handwritten drafts and oral instruction; duplicate and collate material as needed.
• Type daily bulletins, reports, general correspondence, programs, event calendars, schedules, newsletters and announcements.
• Enter student data into computer database; may be required to do extensive computer work.
• Answer telephone and provide general information, relay messages, assist students, staff, parents and general public.
• Assist in recording general and confidential information in student files, sort, and file documents and records according to predetermined classifications while maintaining alphabetical index and cross‑reference fields.
• Provide students with information about school policies and procedures, assist completion of procedures for schedule changes, graduation, financial aid, college entrance tests and…