Beaver Country Day School, an independent day school just outside Boston serving grades 6-12, is seeking a creative, innovative, and forward-thinking Front Office Coordinator for a part-time role. This position, roughly 27.5 hours per week during the academic year, serves as the first point of contact for our school community and visitors. The working hours are from 12:30 to 6:00 pm.
About Our School & Our People:
Beaver Country Day School is not your typical independent school. We embrace change and actively seek feedback to continuously improve. Our 'Launch, Test, Refine' mindset fosters flexibility, risk-taking, open-mindedness, and innovation. We provide a future-focused education rooted in real-world context and experience with our students as our clients.
About the Position:
Candidate requirements & responsibilities
The Front Office Coordinator will:
Create a positive first impression for visitors to our school
Serve visitors by greeting, welcoming, and directing them appropriately
Answer phone calls in a pleasant, informed manner to provide information and create a positive image of the school
Manage student attendance recording and tracking
Assist with miscellaneous office projects
Required Skills/Abilities:
Pleasant and professional phone skills
Proficiency in the Google Work suite
Ability to successfully learn, navigate, and use Beaver’s internal programs and systems, including the student information system
Ability to self-motivate, including learning about the school and school events to be able to answer questions
Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy environment
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Team player, able to adapt to multiple situations and tasks
Ability to maintain confidential issues and concerns
Enthusiastic about working in a school environment with visitors, families, students, and faculty
Additional things to know:
Generous Benefits (Health, Dental and more). For more information visit our website.
About Our School & Our People
We are not your typical independent school. Education is not traditionally seen as forward-thinking. But that's not the case at Beaver. We welcome change and seek feedback to continuously improve. Our "Launch, Test, Refine" mindset promotes flexibility, risk-taking, open-mindedness, and innovation. Our business is providing a future-focused education rooted in real world context and experience and our clients are our students.
The Beaver mindset and approach to teaching place our students at the center of learning experiences in all settings, curricular and co-curricular.
•Our students in grades 6-12 are interesting and passionate individuals, who, above all, are genuinely happy to be at Beaver. We provide students with opportunities to be co-creators of their learning, making it a deeper, more meaningful experience. We are committed to providing an educational environment in tune with the real world and doing authentic work.
•Our teachers and educational leaders are committed to—and excited about— expanding the nature of school, and igniting and fueling the passions of all our students.
•Our mindset is to make excellent mistak...es, launch/test/refine, and not be defined by binary thinking. Instead, we look to approach things from a both/and outlook: tradeoffs don’t have to be the answer and instead, that’s where creativity comes in. We are a community of creative thinkers and doers.
•Our values include collaboration, partnership, and above all, creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable environment for our community. This work is a priority and steadfast commitment. It is never “done”, and we will always make decisions with this at the core of who we are. For all Beaver students, faculty, staff and parents to feel a sense of belonging, it’s important that they see themselves reflected in the community, curriculum, and all our programming.
Our goal every day is to create a school that is making an impact – for our students, and for education as a whole. We don’t take that work lightly, we need people that are relentlessly committed to it and excited to do this work—together.
