Hybrid Dedicated Aide

Friendship Public Charter School; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in education is seeking passionate professionals to join their team for the 2025-2026 school year. This role involves creating supportive learning environments and providing individualized assistance to students, particularly those with special needs. The ideal candidate will have a background in youth development or child care and be committed to fostering academic achievement and personal growth in students. With a focus on collaboration and community, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of young scholars. If you believe in the potential of every child and are ready to inspire future leaders, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year experience in youth development or school setting preferred.
• Strong communication skills for effective interactions with team and families.

Responsibilities

• Supports diverse learners with individualized behavior and academic strategies.
• Maintains a safe and engaging classroom environment for children with special needs.

Skills

Youth Development

Child Care

Reading Instruction

Writing Instruction

Mathematics Instruction

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Solution-focused

Education

High School Diploma

General Education Development Certificate (GED)

Job description

Company: Campus Specifics

Why Collegiate Academy?

Friendship Collegiate Academy builds scholars ready for the rigors and rewards of college. By immersing students in a collegiate environment that provides early exposure to college-level courses and experiences, Collegiate achieves some of the highest graduation and college acceptance rates in the Washington area. Collegiate’s roadmap to student success includes 16 College Board Advanced Placement courses among four rigorous career academies that encourage self-discovery and a mastery of core academic content: Early College, Information Technology and Engineering, Fine Arts, and Health Sciences. Our Early College Academy, the first such program at a public charter high school in the city, offers highly motivated students the opportunity to earn up to two years’ college credit before graduation. Today, Early College alumni proudly hold degrees from some of the nation’s most competitive institutions: Princeton, Morehouse, Columbia, William and Mary, Spelman, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia, Maryland, George Washington, UCLA, Georgetown. The list grows year by year. But a Collegiate education is more than cracking books. Students enjoy a variety of clubs and athletic activities that reinforce the core values of integrity, confidence, persistence, and teamwork. From an award-winning robotics team and drama club to the city’s No.1 charter high school football team, Collegiate develops well-rounded scholars ready to succeed at whatever advanced goals they tackle.

Overview

We are excited to consider your application for anticipated vacancies in the 2025-2026 school year. We are thrilled that you’re considering applying for openings expected in the 2025-2026 school year at Friendship Public Charter School. Our formal interview process will begin in January 2025, for our confirmed vacancies only. Non-vacant positions may still be posted during this time.

Friendship Public Charter School operates a dynamic network of college-preparatory charter schools headquartered in Washington, DC. We proudly serve more than 4,800 preschool through 12th-grade students and support a growing network of alumni as they complete college. Our mission is to provide students with a world-class education that fosters ethical, literate, well-rounded, and self-sufficient individuals. We aim to inspire students to reach high academic standards, enjoy the learning process, succeed in their endeavors, and contribute actively to their communities. For 25 years, thanks to the dedication and expertise of our outstanding faculty, our students have excelled—achieving high graduation rates, college acceptance, and success both academically and socially.

We are seeking professionals who are responsible, confident, respectful, caring, committed, persistent, and patient to join our community for the 2025-2026 school year, starting in August 2025. At Friendship, we believe that every child has the potential to reach and succeed in college—and we invite those who share this belief to apply.

Responsibilities

• Supports the creation of environments and instructional opportunities that meet the needs of diverse learners.
• Provides individualized behavior and academic supports to improve children’s achievement of individual academic and behavioral goals in support of children’s IEP goals.
• Consistently implements behavioral and academic strategies outlined in children’s IEPs.
• Uses information and data from a variety of sources to understand children’s instructional needs and progress against IEP goals.
• Maintains records and documentation.
• Keeps other members of the classroom teaching team, appropriate service providers, and families informed of progress and challenges regarding the student.
• Ensures a safe, clean, attractive, and engaging centers-based classroom that encourages both exploration and complex play for children with special needs.
• Fosters tolerance and a sense of community in classrooms, modeling and explicitly teaching acceptance and appreciation of others.
• Works with the teaching team to ensure the classroom contains sufficient supplies and materials for individualized instructional supports.
• Assists young children with personal hygiene, meals, and other daily activities.
• Communicates the individual children’s goals and progress to families and also ways in which the family can support the child at home.
• Plans collaboratively and shares ideas and resources with the instructional team.
• Collaborates with the teaching team to evaluate instructional effectiveness and to modify instructional approaches based on feedback.
• Actively participates in professional development opportunities provided and seeks out additional professional development.
• Maintains confidentiality and treats all information about children and their families in strictest confidence.
• Fulfills the standards of professionalism including appropriate dress, attendance, and timeliness.
• Team members working at one of Friendship’s Online Academies will work in a hybrid capacity, with a potential of 3 days a week in person and 2 days a week virtually in collaboration with other team members, scholars, and learning coaches. Throughout the year, there will also be times when team members will report in-person to support testing, participate in check and connect sessions, field trips, in-person tutoring, professional development, etc. Friendship’s Online Academy Team Members are required to participate in all in-person activities. The number of in-person days varies from month to month depending on scheduled activities.

Qualifications

• Experience in the role preferred.
• Minimum of 1 year experience in youth development, child care or a school setting strongly preferred. Candidates should be prepared to explain how they will support success for children in school settings.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructing reading, writing, and mathematics. Must be energetic, reliable, flexible, and integrity-driven.
• Strong communication skills in order to ensure effective, positive interactions with their teaching team, staff, parents, and children.
• Solution-focused and goal-oriented.
• Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative work environment.
• Ability to maintain a patient and supportive relationship with assigned students required.
• High school diploma or General Education Development Certificate (GED) required.

FPCS’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, status as a special disabled veteran, or any other protected criteria as established by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to recruitment and hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. Employment decisions at FPCS are based solely upon relevant criteria, including an individual’s capabilities, qualifications, training, experience and suitability.