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Posted: 13-Jan-23
Location: Christchurch, Virginia
Type: Full Time
Salary: Competitive compensation
Categories:
Registrar
Salary Details:
Benefits: Christchurch School offers a highly competitive compensation package for this full-time position with benefits to include excellent health plan options, retirement benefits, professional development, and networking opportunities.
Christchurch School is a co-ed Episcopal boarding and day school serving grades 9—12. Founded in 1921, Christchurch is located on a 125-acre waterfront campus on the Rappahannock River in Virginia. The school’s Mission is to inspire and guide each student's unique journey to self-confidence, purpose, and identity within a caring, structured community, where they discover their infinite value and develop the skills to become compassionate, successful, and engaged global citizens.
Position Overview: Christchurch seeks a committed and enthusiastic applicant to serve as the school’s Registrar and Administrative Assistant to the Studies Office, College Counselor, and Head of School. This position reports to the Dean of Instruction and the Head of School. The job duties for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provide administrative support as needed to the Studies Office, the College Counselor, and the Head of School
- Maintain student and alumni transcripts and other school records
- Produce student and alumni transcripts as needed
- Manage the school's online student textbook system, including working with department chairs on specifying new books as needed
- Produce transcripts, letters, and other paperwork for parents as needed for college applications
- Maintain the school's course eligibility records with the NCAA
- Fulfill statistics requests for professional organizations as needed
- Process student grades each marking period
- Schedule substitutes for teachers
- Share school phone coverage with other administrative assistants
- For graduation, oversee and coordinate faculty regalia, as well as other general commencement matters as needed such as student awards process and diplomas
- Maintain inventories of classroom supplies, awards, and certificates
- Taking minutes at faculty meetings
Equal Employment Opportunity: The School is an equal opportunity employer. The School provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and job applicants without regard to an individual’s race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions including lactation, age, disability, genetic information or any other factor prohibited by applicable law. All aspects of personnel management – including hiring, promotion, demotion, transfer, recruitment, layoff, discipline, termination, compensation, benefits, training and working conditions – will be administered in accordance with this policy. Each employee is expected to do their part to maintain a working environment free of discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
Conditional Offers: An offer of employment for this position is contingent upon the applicant’s right to work in the United States, authorization for and completion of successful background checks as may be requested by the school or required by law.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Ability to learn quickly
- Administrative office experience
- Prior experience working with official records in an administrative capacity including record retention, database management, and data entry is preferred
- Prior experience working in independent schools is preferred
- Proficiency with technology in general, and with Blackbaud software in particular
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office, specifically Google Sheets and Excel.
- Willing to learn new software and new systems as needed
- Understanding of timelines and deadlines to meet the needs of a busy school
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to multitask
- Strong sense of integrity and confidentiality
Physical demands:
- Ability to work at a desk and computer screen for extended periods
- Ability to be mobile around campus and buildings
Work environment:
- Fast-paced, small boarding and day school
- No travel required
- Primary hours approximately 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily with the occasional need for weekend hours for special events
About Christchurch School
Christchurch School: we combine strong community with innovation to deliver our mission to meet students where they are and help them to find their infinite value in a rapidly changing world. Our traditions encompass being a coeducational Episcopal boarding and day school with an academically diverse student population of 220 college-bound students in grades 9 - 12. We believe strongly in being a mission-driven community. Our teachers know our mission and believe in it, and try to live it everyday. Prospective faculty members should embrace the mission, values and aspirations of our school, and want to live and work with students of many different kinds. Prospective teachers should also be committed to our progressive approach to education, which uses a highly relational, mastery, and place-based approach to build competencies and make meaningful connections so that learning is relevant. More details about our innovative curriculum--as well as our co-curricular programs, which include successful athletics and place-based outdoor immersion programs--are available on our website.
Situated on the banks of the Rappahannock River in rural Tidewater, Virginia, Christchurch is near
...to the village of Urbanna and the towns of Gloucester and Kilmarnock. We are forty-five minutes from Williamsburg (home of the College of William and Mary), and one hour from both Richmond and the Hampton Roads area. With a student population of 220 and a teaching faculty of 30, the atmosphere on campus is collegial, friendly, personal, and above all, community-oriented.
80% of faculty members and their families live on campus, where housing includes utilities. Faculty families are welcome for all regular meals when school is in session. Resident and non-resident members of the faculty participate in the full life of the school-from morning assembly and chapel to classroom and after-school activities, athletics, residential life oversight and weekend activities, as well as special events and awards ceremonies.
The standard load carried by faculty members is 4 classes, 2 co-curricular seasons or the equivalent, and rotating dorm duty. All positions include competitive salary commensurate with experience and education, as well as benefits (major medical insurance, dental, and vision, TIAA-CREF, disability insurance, life insurance, meals, and professional development) and may include housing and utilities.
One of six schools in the Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia, Christchurch is also a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, the National Association of Episcopal Schools, and the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. We are accredited by VAIS through the Virginia Council for Higher Education, the Commonwealth of Virginia's authorized accrediting agency for independent schools. We subscribe to the principles of good practice of these organizations.
The School is an equal opportunity employer. The School provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and job applicants without regard to an individual’s race, color, national origin, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related conditions including lactation, age, disability, genetic information or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.
Check out our website and our mission, values, and aspirations: we believe in fostering the infinite value of each student, and we try to live that everyday. Great Journeys Begin at the River!
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