Bus Monitor - IDEA Harlingen (26-27)

Description

Role Mission: The Bus Monitor will ride buses and help the driver ensure safe and orderly transportation of students with disabilities.

What We Offer

• Compensation: $10.00/hour
• Benefits: Dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, and professional development
• Relocation Allowance: Available if applicable

What You Bring

• Competencies: Ability to follow verbal instructions and communicate effectively, ability to operate safety and adaptive equipment, ability to work well with children with disabilities
• Qualifications: High School Diploma or GED, License or Certification required

What You’ll Do – Accountabilities

• Lift and carry students with disabilities on and off the bus according to their individual needs
• Supervise students as they board and leave the bus and cross streets
• Take children into the building and help them find their way
• Learn and adapt to each student’s special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs
• Manage student behavior and report student discipline problems to the appropriate administrator
• Communicate with teachers and parents on a daily basis regarding student behavior while on the bus
• Become familiar with all routes to and from school campus to assist the driver
• Maintain an updated route schedule
• Supervise the use of seat belts, harnesses, or car seats by students
• Follow emergency procedures and help the driver administer first aid, if necessary
• Operate equipment according to established safety procedures
• Follow established procedures and techniques to perform job duties including lifting, assisting students, etc.
• Become familiar with and follow procedures established by transportation and special education offices
• Help the driver keep the bus clean
• Work irregular hours as needed

Values and Characteristics

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Sets and reaches ambitious goals every day
• Is excited to continue to grow with IDEA
• Works relentlessly to make college for all a reality

About IDEA Public Schools

• At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college
• IDEA Public Schools grew from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools serving over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Florida, Ohio, and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to a high level of conduct, professionalism, and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students

Working Conditions

• Maintain emotional control under stress
• Frequent walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, pushing and pulling
• Moderate lifting and carrying
• Work outside and inside
• Work around vehicles and machinery with moving parts
• Moderate exposure to extreme temperatures and vehicle fumes

To Apply

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