School Secretaray/Bookkeeper

COWETA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT; Newnan (GA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Coweta County School District seeks a school bookkeeper for Atkinson Elementary School to provide essential secretarial and financial support. The role covers attendance reporting, file maintenance and processing deposits, POs, packing slips and invoices, with a focus on accurate record-keeping and timely communications.

Typical duties include maintaining financial records, handling checks, and responding to calls while ensuring excellent attendance and punctuality.

Qualifications

• Minimum high school diploma with secretarial/clerical or bookkeeping training or experience.
• Three years clerical experience; preference for education sector.
• Infinite Campus experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide secretarial services for the school principal, staff and teachers.
• Maintain teacher/employee attendance reports and school financial records.
• Process deposits, purchase orders, packing slips, invoices and prepare checks.
• Answer telephone, take messages and respond to inquiries.
• Maintain files and comply with directives from school staff.

Skills

Business English

Clerical skills

Word processing

Interpersonal skills

Telephone etiquette

Education

High school diploma

Bookkeeping training

Tools

Infinite Campus

Job description

POSITION TITLE:

School Bookkeeper Atkinson Elementary School

$17.76 an hour / 8 hours a day / 215 days

Job Description

Provide secretarial services for the school principal, administrative staff and teachers. Perform customary office routines and practices as may be required to assure the smooth and efficient operation of the school. Maintain teacher/employee attendance reports. Possess sound interpersonal skills necessary for meeting parents and the public. Maintain files. Comply with any reasonable oral or written directive of the school principal or other appropriate school staff. Answer telephone/take messages/respond to caller's questions appropriately. Excellent attendance and punctuality required. Maintain the financial records for the school. Process deposits, purchase orders, packing slips, invoices Prepare checks.

Required Education, Certification Or Training

Minimum high school diploma, secretarial, clerical, bookkeeping/accounting experience, and/or appropriate training.

Required Skills

Practical knowledge of business English, general vocabulary, spelling, and modern office practices. Ability to transcribe varied materials and compose routine memoranda and letters. Ability to maintain clerical records. Performs all advanced secretarial skills, word processing and computer skills. Sound interpersonal skills to meet and deal with the general public in an effective and tactful manner.

Required Experience

Three (3) years acceptable clerical experience, preferably in education. Infinite Campus experience preferred.

The Coweta County Board of Education reserves the right to accept equivalent

Qualifications As The Board May Deem Appropriate And Acceptable.

The Coweta County School System does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, color, national origin or disability in its educational programs, activities or employment practices.