About Spring Lake Park Schools:
Welcome to Spring Lake Park Schools! We are a vibrant school community serving about 5,800 students from the suburbs of Blaine, Fridley and Spring Lake Park, in the northern Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Our district purpose — “High expectations, high achievement for all. No excuses” – provides our focus to meet the unique and varied needs of each student.
Spring Lake Park Schools is recognized for our commitment to personalized learning, creating a culture of innovation and creativity through human-centered design thinking. We are working to create a system – a culture with a methodology and set of processes – where teachers and staff have the freedom, flexibility and invitation to design new ways of learning centered around deepening student engagement to continuously improve student success.
Position Overview:
A management assistant/executive assistant to the Student Services/Special Education Department at the District Services Center, reporting to the Director of Student Services and providing administrative support to him and two Student Services Coordinators, as well as the District’s Special Education staff. The position is year-round, Monday through Friday.
Primary Responsibilities:
Duties of this job include, but are not limited to…
keeping student information for approximately 750 Special Education students up to date, confidential, and in compliance with Due Process law in the Infinite Campus database;
coordinating interviews and completing paperwork for new hires;
coordinating district training events, such as CPI, multiple times a year;
supporting Special Education classroom teachers by completing supply orders and registering staff for professional development;
processing invoices and balancing a purchasing card;
updating Special Education financial information in the Department of Education’s SEDRA database
sending and receiving tuition agreements to other school districts;
assisting in completing and submitting grants and audits to the Department of Education;
collecting data for and submitting reports to the Department of Education, such as restrictive procedures;
providing superb customer service and acting as a resource for students’ families and Spring Lake Park staff;
collecting and processing time sheets, percentage of time worked reports, and mileage reports for approximately 80 Special Education staff members;
acting as the District’s homeschool liaison and registrar, as well as the contact for non-public schools;
keeping information on the district’s website for Student Services/Special Education up to date; and
other administrative duties, as assigned.
Working Conditions: Assignment is in an office in a fast paced environment with multiple high priorities.