QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum two-year Associates Degree in Business Management or related field and/or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated record of successful employment as a secretary.
- Demonstrated Skills in the following: Construct/Compose a Business Letter, Edit/Correct a Business Letter, Excel with Mail Merge, Access, Typing (45 WPM), Google Documents, Google Calendar.
- Knowledge of the following: general office practices, PowerSchool, Red Rover, photocopying, scanning, and email.
- Ability to communicate with the public in a positive and professional manner including confidentiality.
- Ability to work without close supervision.
- Ability to perform accurate detail work.
- Willingness to attend seminars and workshops to help with the successful operation of the departments.
JOB GOAL: To assist the Director of Disability Services in the daily operation of the department by maintaining the needs, goals, and interests of the school district, students, parents, and/or general public.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
General
- Act as liaison between the director, staff, students, parents, general public and school related agencies.
- Create, distribute and update departmental forms, district forms and provide communication to staff, students and the public.
- Perform normal secretarial duties, i.e. answering phones, correspondence, greeting public
- Contact company for office machine service
- Maintain the binder of the annual operating procedures.
- Provide assistance with duties pertaining to the Student Support Services Secretary Level V.
- Responsible to enter personal absences and clock in/out via the Red Rover System.
- Responsible to check your district email account on a regular basis, and to communicate as needed via email.
- Perform such other tasks and assume such other responsibilities, from administration, as necessary for the successful operation of the department.
Special Education
- Maintain in office special education files for identified students with disabilities.
- EMIS information
- Proactive tracking of IDEA timelines
- Notification of overdue IEPs to Intervention Specialist, Psychologist, Speech Therapist
- Obtain and organize pertinent data needed for state and or federal funding such as child count; blind report, vision screening; ELA; etc.
- Organize and distribute re-evaluation folders to psychologist, update database and file when completed.
- Work with Student Services secretary to verify enrollment documents (Evaluation/IEP) for accurate dates and signatures.
- Enroll non-public, Autism Scholarship and Jon Peterson Scholarship students. Create file and maintain.
- Manage Same Goal/IEP Anywhere; liaison between intervention specialist; related services; and administration. Set up accounts and troubleshooting.
- Maintain psych files- update database; file reports; consolidate graduates and over 22-year-old.
- Process request for records from outside agencies i.e. Social Security, Courts and Law offices. Send current evaluation and IEP only if release of records is provided.
- Process request for records from other districts. Check file for current evaluation and IEP.
- Track court placed students and required district notifications.
EMIS
- Correct special education errors when sent from EMIS coordinator
- Use Crosscheck system to correct errors within Powerschool student programs
- Maintain ODDEX pages for court placed students in Sylvania Schools.
- Assist preschool coordinator with ELA report twice a year.
- Collaborate with the Director, Treasurer, EMIS and transportation to collect information and process for Excess Cost (court placed students) including sending contracts; filing with Area Coordinator (annually).
- Collaborate with the Director, Treasurer, EMIS and transportation to collect and process information for Catastrophic Cost (Sylvania Students) file with Area Coordinator.
Preschool
- Distribute all preschool enrollment packets- special needs and typical students.
- Enroll all preschoolers with disabilities and typical students.
- Collect monthly payments for typical students
- Maintain database of medical forms; send reminders to parents of due date.
- Coordinate with preschool psychologist evaluation database; email evaluation request packet to families (cold calls). Update database when report is completed.
Advanced Placement Screening
- Maintain database of request for Advanced Placement.
- Email packet to families that have submitted a request.
- Set up screening schedule with school psychologist.
- Contact families that returned the packet to schedule an appointment
- Email results to families.