An Ambleside school Office Manager reports to the Head of School and functions primarily as the school business manager handling general office, financial and legal tasks as well as other varied relational and organizational responsibilities. The Office Manager works closely with the school’s senior leadership personnel to establish and maintain a highly professional office and school environment, providing support as needed. The Office Manager serves all constituents of the school (board, senior leadership, parents, teachers and students) and is to become highly familiar with all policies related to school business recorded in manuals for the board and principal as well as handbooks for teachers and parents/students. The Office Manager acts as a primary point of contact for the school, professionally and warmly interacting with all students, parents, teachers, staff, visitors and the community at large, often in a fast-paced, relationally intensive school office environment.

Personal Qualities

Service and others-oriented, teachable, gracious with all persons (children, teachers, parents), joyful, administratively excellent, thorough, punctual, flexible, collegial, articulate, and enthusiastic.