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PARISH: St. Bonaventure Church, Hurricane Branch, Indian Grove
LOCATION: Marceline
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Full-Time Hourly (with benefits)
Please note: Group insurance and Retirement Plan Eligibility are governed by plan documents.
DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE TO: Rev. C. Paschal Ihediohamma
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Greets visitors to the office in a professional and friendly manner
- Responds to mail, emails, voicemails, and telephone calls
- Assists other staff members when time, energy, and skill permit
- All other secretarial duties needed such as scheduling parishioners to meet with Fr. Paschal when needed, running copies of flyers, etc.
- Maintains accurate records of meetings as directed by the pastor (brings principal report/update to meetings; shares important information with the council’s involving diocese/parish by preparing packets a week prior to their meetings and keeping them up to date on financial situations)
- Keeps vital statistics for the parish (including IG and HB)
- Statistics including but not limited to:
- Sacraments
- Deaths
- Marriages
- Council Minutes
- Virtus Training – making sure those who need Virtus training also has their training done as well as any other training and certs needed to volunteer/work
- Mass parishioner counts – report turned in monthly
- Keeps pastor informed of vital concerns within the parish
- Creates a weekly Bulletin and Monthly Calendar for St. Bon, HB, and IG and makes sure that the Bulletins are emailed, published to our site, and placed in the Churches.
- Keeps records of Bulletins and makes sure they are published each year
- Schedules Mass Intentions and makes sure they are paid for and deposited for St. Bon, HB, & IG
- Schedules Eucharistic ministers and Liturgical Ministers
- Maintains a positive relationship with parish council and other volunteers
- Maintains a reasonable inventory of church supplies
- Handles routine questions about policies and procedures of the Parish
- Assist with payroll/onboarding when needed
- Obtain payroll reporting for QuickBooks
- Assist onboarding for new employees
- Help employees with Paylocity and walk them thru on how to use Paylocity
- Make sure FMLA, Term, New Hire, Workers Comp, etc. paperwork is sent to the correct place.
- Prepare bank deposits and records of receipts
- Make sure all finances are logged and tracked in QuickBooks
- Reconcile all accounts
- Run 10% Tithe reports monthly
- Run Quarterly and Yearly reports
- Prepare vouchers, including coding and payment of outstanding invoices for the Church, Rectory, and School
- Bills IG, HB, and IC for the priests salary and mileage for reimbursement as well as Priest Institutes and Retreats
- Year End Financials for the Diocese and any other reports the Diocese may ask for
- Prepares financial statements as requested
- Prepare tax statements for the parish yearly
- Makes sure all Parishes (St. Bon, HB, and IG) are following Diocese guidelines and passes along any new information or flyers that come from the Diocese
- Attends training seminars when they arise
- Performs other duties as assigned

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