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Appleton, WI

Business Office Administrative Assistant


St. Mary Parish in Appleton is looking for a dynamic, organized, and engaging Administrative Assistant. This role is responsible for the activities of the front office including reception and phone calls, mailings, calendars, parishioner data, and supporting the team in their ministries. The person in this needs to be skilled in using office productivity software such as Word, Excel, email, and Google Calendar. An aptitude for learning new tools is critical. to be successful in this position. We utilize a number of applications unique to our work such as Gabriel, Flocknote, and Vimeo.

JOB DESCRIPTION:  Business Office Administrative Assistant

PURPOSE:  To provide secretarial and administrative support to Parish Staff.

DUTIES: Act as the primary reception for the Parish Office including managing the volunteer receptionists. Coordinate the regular and bulk mailings. Use the Gabriel system to input and update parishioner information. Assist the business administrator with tasks related to the offertory and bank deposits. Aid the ministry team with projects and activities related to faith formation, discipleship, stewardship, and more. Support the pastor in his daily activities.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this position successfully, an individual must demonstrate regular, predictable attendance and be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. They must conduct themselves in a manner, which is consistent and supportive of the mission of the parish while maintaining confidentiality.  The individual must be able to successfully pass background checks. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge and skill required.

Ability to relate well; trustworthy, maintains confidences, focus on results, commitment, spirit of caring, thirst for knowledge, personal integrity, positive attitude, dependability, flexibility to adapt to varied situations at any given moment in time, effective time manager, communicator and problem solver, accomplishes goals through own efforts and cooperation with others, needs an intangible spirit requiring a wide-range of sensitivity to others, multi-task oriented with constant interruptions.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:  Requires excellence and exhibits competence in secretarial and technical abilities (business manners, organizational skills, communication skills, computer skills, graphic design skills, census database management, office equipment proficiency, spelling, grammar, and etiquette.)

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

SCHEDULE AND BENEFITS: This is an 80% hourly position with regular hours scheduled Monday to Thursday. The position is benefits eligible including health, vacation, retirement, and Xavier Catholic Schools tuition discount.