Reports to: Principal Location: Jefferson Lincoln Elementary
Bargaining Unit: Part-Time Teamsters FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Job Summary:
Paraeducators collaborate with administration and staff to provide supervision and instruction to a variety of students in a variety of settings.
Required Qualifications:
- Associates’ Degree or 72 quarter college credits or have passed the ETS
- Ability to obtain a Criminal Justice fingerprint clearance
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, possess awareness (for self and others), listen actively, be patient, incorporate humor/lightheartedness into work, be empathic, possess a growth mindset, and be customer-service oriented
- Ability to support the District’s vision, mission, and goals including the belief that all students can succeed
- Demonstrated ability to maintain a positive attitude
- Ability to maintain timely and professional lines of communication with students, families, staff, and building administration
- Ability to create organizational systems and to flexibly respond to changing student needs, meet deadlines, and multi-task when necessary
- Ability to function in a calm, efficient, courteous manner under stress and exercise careful judgment, confidentiality, and tact in the performance of duties
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality, work effectively under pressure, and maintain professional relationships with students, co-workers, and administration
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to speak Spanish
- Positive experience working with adolescents
- Experience working in a K-12 school setting
Essential Functions for this Position:
- Communicates clearly, accurately, concisely, and professionally
- Adapts classroom work under the direction of the teacher for the purpose of providing a method to support and/or reinforce classroom objectives
- Assists teachers for the purpose of implementing lesson plans
- Monitors students in a variety of settings and activities to ensure a safe and positive learning environment
- Provides individual and/or small group instruction to students based on direction from teachers or administrators
- Performs record keeping and basic clerical functions to support the building and other staff
- Attends various meetings to support students
- Listens to student concerns to determine if appropriate action or referral to other staff is needed
- Maintains the physical appearance of work areas to provide an educationally stimulating environment
- Attends trainings as directed or appropriate
- Other duties as assigned
Salary:
- $20.24-$27.20 hourly, depending on experience and qualifications
- $.50 per hour additional for employees with an Associate of Arts degree or higher
- $.50 per hour additional for employees who fluently speak, write, and read Spanish
Work schedule:
Temporary 6.5 hours per day (8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.): M-F (excluding non-school days) for the remaining 26-27 school year.
Benefits:
- Holidays; sick leave and personal leave days; health benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability insurance; State retirement; other fringe benefits as allowed under the Part-Time Teamsters Collective Bargaining Agreement.