Paraeducator Special Education

Chimacum School District 49; Chimacum (WA); On-site; USD 40,652,000 - 48,497,000; Full time

Job summary

Chimacum School District is seeking a Transition Services Paraeducator to support new students and help manage classroom overloads and IEPs. The position involves direct student assistance in community settings under a building administrator’s supervision.

Responsibilities include teaching real-world skills, serving as a job coach, documenting progress toward IEP goals, and collaborating with families and local partners to promote student success.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct compassionate support to students with special needs during community-based instruction (e.g. grocery stores, pharmacies, public transit and job sites)
• Teach and reinforce real world skills such as handling money, navigation, social interaction, safety awareness and job specific tasks.
• Serve as a job coach offering hands on training prompting modeling and feedback tailored to students’ individualized needs.
• Collaborate closely with teachers, transition specialists, families, and external partners (e.g. local businesses, transit agencies).
• Maintain detailed documentation of student progress toward IEP or transition goals and communicate updates to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure safety, dignity, and empowerment for students during all community engagements.

Job description

Applications will be accepted beginning
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 12:00 AM
(Pacific Standard Time)

School: Chimacum Jr/Sr High Special Education

School Year: 2026-27

Reports to: Building Principal

Bargaining Unit: CIA

Status: 2026-27 School Year

Due to Classroom Overloads

Start Date: When Filled

Days Per Year: 180

Wage Range (Salaries are stated as an estimate only. Actual salary is confirmed only upon hire/job offer.)

$23.42 - $27.94 / Hour DOE

Note: Employees are paid the last working day of each month.

Position Summary

This position is needed to support the influx of new students in the district. This position will assist with classroom overloads and IEPs.

Supervision and Controls over the Work

The employee works with a high level of independence and professional discretion under the general supervision of a designated school administrator. The employee’s work is governed, controlled, and evaluated by acceptable professional practice, school and district policies and regulations, provisions of Washington Administrative Code and Revised Code of Washington, direction of the supervisor, and performance standards and expectations as set forth in the collective bargaining agreement.

Essential Duties for a Transition Services Paraeducator

• Provide direct compassionate support to students with special needs during community-based instruction (e.g. grocery stores, pharmacies, public transit and job sites)
• Teach and reinforce real world skills such as handling money, navigation, social interaction, safety awareness and job specific tasks.
• Serve as a job coach offering hands on training prompting modeling and feedback tailored to students’ individualized needs.
• Collaborate closely with teachers, transition specialists, families, and external partners (e.g. local businesses, transit agencies).
• Maintain detailed documentation of student progress toward IEP or transition goals and communicate updates to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure safety, dignity, and empowerment for students during all community engagements.

Qualifications

• High school graduation or equivalent.
• Demonstrate positive student management strategies that promote student success.
• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with others to promote a positive environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in math, reading, and oral /written language skills.
• Demonstrated qualities of adaptability, dependability, humor, and tolerance.
• Demonstrated ability to carry out the work assignment with minimal supervision.
• Commitment to professional growth.
• Demonstrated willingness to accept feedback related to job performance improvement.
• Meet Title 1 requirements for highly qualified (pass exam or have 72 college credit hours).

Additional Job Information

This position may be combined with other assignments depending on qualifications.

Physical and Environmental Requirements of the Position:

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, move about, hear, and speak, and be visually observant of classroom behavior and learning activities.

The employee may occasionally lift, restrain, or move up to 100 pounds – most typically when required to intervene in student safety issues.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, or consistent with the subject being taught, but can be abnormally loud on occasion.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally work in outside weather conditions and be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, temperature fluctuations, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals commonly used in instruction and/or cleaning. It may be expected that the individual could be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials during the course of their duties. The employee may be exposed to infectious disease as carried by students.

The employee may be required to travel on school owned or leased vehicles while supervising and assisting students.

Questions regarding completion of application? Please contact:

[phone]

About Chimacum Schools:

Surrounded by farms and forests at the base of the Olympic Mountains and the edge of the Salish Sea, Chimacum Schools are the heart center of a proud and vibrant rural community. We offer a deeply rewarding work environment with dedicated colleagues, enriching professional development, community partnerships, and regionally competitive compensation.

Chimacum provides PreK-12 students engaging place-based and hands-on learning, opportunities for accelerated learning like College in the High School coursework, locally produced school lunches, and an invitation to educational innovation and support, among other amazing professional opportunities.

OUR PURPOSE

To be a caring community for courageous learners

OUR PROMISE

The Chimacum Promise to our community is Every student is known by name, strength, and need, and aspires to learn, dream, and become. We are deeply dedicated to authentic collaborative practices and not fads to meet our students’ needs in the classroom setting, regardless of their academic, social, or behavioral differences.

Chimacum School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:

Civil Rights Coordinator: Stephanie McCleary , HR Director, 360.302.5894

Title IX Coordinator: Ryan Stevens , CJSHS Principal, 360.302.5905

HIB Compliance Officer: Ryan Stevens , CJSHS Principal, 360.302.5905

Section 504 Coordinator: Sarah Walker , CCP Principal, 360.302.5823

Gender-Inclusive Schools Coordinator: Sarah Walker , CCP Principal, 360.302.5823

Chimacum School District will also take steps to assure that national origin persons who lack English language skills can participate in all education programs, services and activities. Contact Katie Bensch at [phone] for information regarding translation services or transitional bilingual education programs.

NOTE: All new employees are required to undergo a criminal history check via fingerprint cards with the Washington State Patrol and FBI. Employment is conditional pending a satisfactory background check.

Chimacum School District is a smoke and drug free workplace which includes nicotine delivering devices.

Primary Location Chimacum Junior/Senior High School

Salary Range Salary Schedule (csd49.org, Departments, Human Resources, Collective Bargaining)