Front Desk Officer at the Learning Place

The Learning Place School is an international Montessori school for boys and girls aged 1 - 12 years. At TLP, we know that your child’s education and well being are of primary concern. Our teachers love what they do and stop at nothing to get ultimate learner outcomes.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Front Desk Officer

Location:  Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

Responsibilities
The responsibilities for the role are:

• Welcoming, receiving, signing in and dealing with staff, pupils, parents, school visitors and other stakeholders as appropriate
• Dissemination of information and enquires to relevant departments to action
• Actioning all enquires within specified time
• Share information broadly with administrators, teachers, and students’ families through emails, flyers or phone calls, ensuring that necessary information is properly transmitted.
• Managing the staff, pupil, parents and visitor school entry system
• Responsible for providing information on a variety of topics, including rules, disciplinary measures, and day-to-day operations of the school.
• Ensure presence at the welcome desk at all times
• Ensuring all tools required to respond to queries/parents are present and assessible especially with regards specials and extra-curricular activities.

Customer Service Duties:

• Responsible for all customer related correspondence
• Receiving calls from customers and parents and disseminating for action to relevant departments
• Up to date with all extra-curricular/specials activities to be able to respond to all enquires
• Acts as a resource in resolving customer issues brought to the Department by utilizing excellent TLP process knowledge
• Work tirelessly towards ensuring all customer complaints are resolved
• Build and develop strong and positive relations with other heads of department
• Develop parent liaison and relationships ensuring that word of mouth comments is positive
• Positively represent the school at all times
• Provide focused and high quality of customer care at all times.
• Relate to all TLP/TLPC Customers and provide professional customer service always.
• Attend to parent issues and give prompt response, solutions and comfort always.

Admission Duties:

• Attend to Admissions enquiries, grant tours of the building and arrange play dates
• Manage the application process for new families including application processing, answering questions, communicating clear expectations and maintaining the admissions database
• Follow up on enquiries and set up Parents interview.
• Upload and update Enquiries/Admissions Database
• Arrange student Admission letter and Parents orientation sessions.
• Follow Admissions standardized procedures and contribute to the effective development of best practice in terms of operation and delivery
• Be aware of our key messages and promises, and ensure these are consistently communicated to potential or existing parents.

Communication Duties:

• Operating the school’s main telephone in a professional manner, transferring calls, or taking and delivering messages as appropriate
• Managing the school’s main inbox, replying, forwarding messages and making
• appointments for staff as appropriate
• Managing the school’s public noticeboard, adding and removing content as needed

Requirements

• The ideal candidate should have a OND / HND, up to 3 years’ experience and be digitally savvy.

Application Closing Date
Friday; 14th October, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: careers@thelearningplaceng.com using the Job Title (e.g. Front Desk Officer) as the subject of the email.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.