Diocese of St. Augustine · 1 week ago
Parish Secretary
The Diocese of St. Augustine is seeking a Parish Secretary for St. Mary, Mother of God Catholic Church. The role involves various church office functions, including managing calls and visitors, maintaining records, and scheduling ministry volunteers.
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Responsibilities
Screen, prioritize, and route calls to the appropriate personnel or provides direct assistance to individuals within scope of responsibility
Greet and receive visitors in a courteous and professional manner, directing them to the appropriate parties
Respond to work assignments and projects in a timely manner and provides regular status updates on projects and estimated timelines for completion
Maintain website and parish bulletins
Meet with families to plan funerals
Schedule Liturgical Ministry volunteers for Daily, Weekend Mass, and Holy Days of Obligation
Schedule Mass and organize flower purchase for intentions
Maintain an organized, neat, and efficient filing system and creates, updates, and maintains accurate databases, files and other records and information
Perform other related duties as assigned by pastor
Qualification
Required
High School diploma or GED and a minimum of one year of administrative experience
Customer service experience
Excellent organizational skills
Communicate effectively and follow instructions
Maintain a respectful and quiet atmosphere in the office
Demonstrate professionalism, empathy, tact, courtesy and diplomacy
Maintain a high level of respect, confidentiality, and discretion with sensitive information
Must successfully pass the required criminal background check prior to employment and every five years
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, vendors, employees, and the public
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus
Flexibility to work evenings and weekends, when necessary, and ability to travel and drive one's own vehicle to various diocesan locations
Preferred
Practicing Catholic preferred. Must respect, promote, accommodate, and not be in conflict with the mission, moral and social teachings, doctrines, and laws of the Roman Catholic faith
Company
Diocese of St. Augustine
The Catholic Diocese of St.
Funding
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