26-27 Operations Support Staff

About the role

We are looking for a compassionate, organized and student-focused Operations Support Staff to join our team! You’ll work collaboratively with your colleagues to support the school site in a variety of ways. Operations Support Staff may take on any of the following responsibilities:

Responsibilities

General Support

• Attend on campus trainings to prepare for roles and during the year to stay informed of school priorities and needs
• Communicate absence to Director of School Operations and support with sub arrangements when possible/necessary
• Complete other duties as assigned by the Director of School Operations

Lunch & Recess Support

• In the cafeteria:
  • Circulate the cafeteria making sure students have everything they need and are complying with Caliber School rules and procedures
  • Assist in or lead the dismissal process
• On the play yard:
  • Assist in resolving minor student conflicts
  • Ensure students are following the playground school rules and procedures
  • Monitor students in restrooms
  • Lead particular games (training on this will be provided)
  • Collect equipment left in playground areas by students
  • Oversee the distribution and collection of recess equipment

Print Management

• Receive print jobs via email from staff and fulfill their orders, often within a 24 hour period
• Check printed orders for completion and quality ensuring there are no errors in the print job
• Fix paper jams in the printer or request tech support when the printer is not working or a jam cannot be easily fixed
• Complete orders that contain: color printing, black and white printing, posters, booklets, other miscellaneous classroom resources, laminating, and book binding
• Return completed orders to staff mailboxes

Library Assistance

• Checking in books that were returned the previous day
• Reshelving books on a daily basis
• Walking students to library and back to classrooms
• Supporting students to check out books that are at their independent reading level as determined by the teacher (this is about 1-2 letters lower than the instructional level you use in your guided reading)
• Managing around six students in the library for 15 minutes while they select, check-out and return books
• Assisting with check out of books
• Labeling newly acquired books (as needed)
• Preparing, printing and distributing overdue notices (as needed)
• Reminding students and teachers that all books must stay at school and in a safe place in the classroom
• Monitoring check-out times and holding students accountable for returning books after two weeks or renewing once

Office Support

• Filing
• Answering phones
• Data entry
• Helping families or visitors in front office
• Ad Hoc items as needed

Working Conditions

Environment

This job operates in a school/classroom environment. This role routinely uses standard classroom equipment such as laptop computers, photocopiers, whiteboards, fitness equipment, and Chromebooks, etc. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Physical Abilities

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position classification involves sitting with some walking and standing for extended periods of time. Staff may be required to lift, pull or push objects approximately 50 pounds or less. The employee will encounter exposure to ill students. The position requires mobility to climb, kneel, stoop, crawl, reach and bend, and accurate perceiving of sound; near and far vision with the ability to read small print; depth dexterity; and the providing of oral information and direction. The position is primarily located at a school site with outside supervision and some district office visits. The employee will frequently work independently with high work volume and tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Prior work in a school setting preferred
• Live Scan and TB Test required
• Volunteer Registration form required

Preferred

• Strong relationship building skills; appetite for and ability to engage families and community members; cultural competency with at-risk students and families
• Manages multiple priorities simultaneously to accomplish urgent and important needs
• Detail-oriented and highly organized with the ability to keep the big picture in mind
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented

Values

• Caliber staff…are committed to a culture of feedback, development and continuous improvement
• validate and affirm the identities, strengths and passions of each person
• know that It is everyone’s collective responsibility to work in service of and alongside our school communities
• approach situations and people with empathy and kindness