Title I/General Education Paraprofessional

General Definition of Work
Performs intermediate human support work monitoring students’ academics and behaviors, providing supervision, and related work as apparent or assigned.  Work is performed under the limited supervision of the Title I Teacher and K-4 Principal.  

Qualification Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions
Follows student intervention plans and communicates with classroom teachers and parents; attend meetings as requested.
Supervises morning activities, lunchroom, recess, after school activities, and bathroom breaks as assigned.
Assists students with clothing (shoes, zippers, gloves, etc.); assists students walking to classrooms and lunchroom, etc.
Monitors students with medical conditions; provide medication in the absence of the School Nurse; administers minor First Aid when required.
Assists in the administration of district assessments
Run math and literacy intervention groups
Collect and record data
Comfortable with technology (laptops, SMART Boards, Google Docs/Sheets, iPads)
Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
General knowledge of interventions and district assessments. Thorough knowledge of standard office equipment and software; ability to make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, students, parents, and elected officials.

Education and Experience
Associate’s degree or higher.

Physical Requirements
This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing, frequently requires standing, walking, sitting, and using hands to handle or feel and occasionally requires stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, pushing or pulling and lifting; work requires close vision and distance vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires observing general surroundings and activities; work occasionally requires exposure to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to bloodborne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment and exposure to bodily fluids; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

Special Requirements
Associate’s Degree or higher is preferred.
Met or willing to meet the requirements for being a highly qualified Title I 
District training upon hire.
 
Rate of Pay:
$17.59/hour Per Union Contract

Benefits include: 

• Medical Insurance 
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Paid Leave Time
• 403(b)
• PERA
• Free School Fitness Center Membership
• and more

See ESP Master Agreement for more details on the NLS Employment page