School Receptionist

We are looking for an enthusiastic Receptionist to join our team.  The Receptionist plays a crucial role in providing exceptional customer service to staff, students and school visitors as well as supporting the attendance processes of the school and general administrative support.

This is a part time role, working Thursday 8.00am to 4.30pm and Friday 8.00am to 4.00pm, term time only.

This is a temporary position until the end of the 2024 school year (13 December 2024), with a possibility of extension. 

The Receptionist is responsible for the following:

• Ensuring full coverage of the reception desk during your allocated shifts
• Greet visitors and students in a pleasant and helpful manner
• Answer calls, resolve queries where possible and direct calls to the appropriate channel.
• Database entry using the school’s management system, including students entering late or leaving early and recording of absences.
• Communication with parents regarding absences or general queries as required
• Managing visitor and casual teacher sign-in during school drop off hours
• Ensuring the reception, meeting rooms and common areas of the Administration building is kept neat, tidy and organised at all times
• General administrative assistance as required.

The following skills are essential for this role: 

• 2 years+ experience as a Receptionist
• Great customer service skills and phone manner
• Ability to work calmly under pressure
• Confidence and professionalism in liaising with staff, students, parents and external providers at all levels
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple and competing tasks and deadlines
• Maturity and diplomacy in handling sensitive issues
• High level confidentiality
• Ability to use initiative
• High level attention to detail
• Excellent computer skills, including high level knowledge of Office and Google Apps. Experience would School Management Systems (TASS) would be advantageous. 

Experience working in a school would be seen favourably, though not required. 

For more information on Emanuel School and to read a full role description, please visit our website at https://www.emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au/about-our-school/employment/.  

About our School

Emanuel is an independent, co-educational, Jewish day school situated in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Students from Pre-school to Year 12 learn, play and flourish on our beautiful heritage-listed campus in Randwick.

Our students grow into innovative, enterprising, global citizens, who understand their responsibility for Tikkun Olam (repairing the world). We focus on empowering and unleashing individual potential as an inclusive, diverse community, which is open to all and has a strong Jewish identity. Our motto, Mind Spirit Being, encapsulates our School. We aim to open the mind, awaken the spirit and engage the whole being within a culture of excellence, respect and the desire to strive for one’s best.

For more information on Emanuel School, visit our website. 

How to apply

Apply via seek or email to ***********@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au. All applications should include a CV and Cover Letter. 

Applications close Wednesday 1 May 2024.

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Emanuel seeks to be a child safe school

Emanuel School is committed to promoting the safety, welfare, and wellbeing of our students as our paramount priority. We seek to maintain a preventative, proactive and participatory approach to child safety, promoting student voice and agency. 

Emanuel School has zero tolerance for child abuse and has established systems and policies to protect children, while in the School’s care, from abuse and to promote physical, emotional, and cyber safety. The protection and wellbeing of students is the responsibility of all members of the Emanuel School community, and encompasses:

• a duty of care to ensure that reasonable steps are taken to prevent harm to students which could reasonably have been foreseen
• obligations under child protection legislation.

Emanuel School welcomes and celebrates diversity and remains committed to promoting the safety of every child.