P/T Office Administrator

Position: Office Administrator

Join us if you are seeking to work in a community of dedicated teachers, supportive families, active Board members, and a flat structure school system.

Bright Water Waldorf School is seeking an energetic, collaborative, and warm-hearted office administrator, committed to the ideals of Waldorf education, who would like to join a vibrant Waldorf community. We are a group of dedicated faculty and staff committed to Waldorf principles, mindful land stewardship, and providing our students with opportunities for dynamic learning within an inclusive community.

Our Mission: Cultivating Creative Minds, Capable Hands, and Compassionate Hearts

Bright Water Waldorf School is an independent school serving students Pre-K to 8th grade with a developmentally appropriate, multidisciplinary, experiential, and academically rigorous education that cultivates students’ heads, hands, and hearts. Our home is within the Japanese Cultural Community Center of Washington in Seattle’s Chinatown International District neighborhood. We are called toward a new future and are orienting our school’s evolution toward equity and community. We seek leaders who are excited to be on this journey with us.

Job Duties:

• Front line of the office, answering the phone, door, and addressing student issues as they arise
• Assist in the planning and implementation of BWWS community, fundraising, and curricular events and festivals
• Managing vendors, such as school and janitorial supplies
• Providing additional adult supervision during recess
• Proactively bringing concerns that impact the well-being of the school, including safety, viability, and professionalism to the College of Teachers, Board of Trustees, and/or Staff as applicable and appropriate to advance solutions.

Required Experience:

• 2 years of relevant work, volunteer or lived experience
• Desired Skills and Experience:
• Experience working in a fast paced customer centered environment.
• Experience working within a team to achieve results.
• Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing, with an ability to communicate information clearly and firmly while building trust and demonstrating care for the community, individuals, and diverse perspectives.
• Strong organizational skills, building processes that are clear, easy to use and provide transparency.
• Knowledge or experience with Google Suite, Excel, Zoom, BigSIS, and basic office equipment, and use of various social media channels as an administrator for organizational group page(s) and/or profile(s)

Qualities of a Successful Candidate:

• Commitment to equity; anti-racist, gender-inclusive environments (both office and educational environments); and evaluation of systemic privilege and oppression, with openness to personal and institutional growth
• Collaborator with a demonstrated capacity to build relationships and maintain positivity across constituencies and identities
• Passion for the mission of teaching children, partnering with parents, and working with talented colleagues toward inspired objectives
• Actively seeks on-going personal growth; willingness to seek help when needed; and demonstrated positivity and good humor
• Respectful of the schedules and time constraints of others and a commitment to punctuality

Location: On campus at Bright Water Waldorf School, 1414 S Weller Street, Seattle, WA 98144.

(Located within the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington)

Hours: This is an hourly position, 20 hours/week, 10 am-2 pm

Compensation: Starting at $23.47 depending on experience, salary scale for transparency

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements: Able to manage 50 pounds - lifting, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping and squatting. (Moving boxes, etc.)

Bright Water Waldorf School welcomes, values, and supports ethnic, religious, economic and cultural diversity. Our school seeks a diverse faculty and student body and is committed to having our community reflect the abundant and changing diversity of the United States. We welcome, value, and support single, dual, or multiple parent households and LGBTQ+ parents, faculty and/or students. We are an equal opportunity employer. Visit our website https://www.brightwaterwaldorf.org/about-bright-water

To Apply: Send a letter of interest, resume and three professional references to hiring@brightwaterwaldorf.org

For inquiries contact: hiring@brightwaterwaldorf.org