ED PARA,BILIN, SPANISH,C

About the role

The purpose of the position is to provide staff support in an educational environment, with emphasis on providing bilingual communication support to teachers, staff, and students.

Responsibilities

• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous, and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Provides bilingual communication support to teachers, staff and students through interpreting and translating data and information.
• Assists students individually for whom English is a second language in a manner to support comprehension and transition into an English-speaking environment.
• Directly communicates with parents and children in conveying education and school related information to ensure full comprehension of all exchanges.
• Maintains accurate and complete records of a variety of student information which may require the use of a computer terminal to enter student scores and other student data.
• May be assigned monitoring duties, i.e., hallways, lunchroom, restrooms, and bus duty; ensures appropriate student conduct during these periods; escorts students to designated activity areas, i.e., music room, computer room, art classes, assemblies, etc.
• May be assigned to various labs provide assistance to teachers and instruction/information to students; may translate lesson plan and other information to students for better understanding and comprehension.
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by OCPS.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree or higher; or at least sixty (60) semester hours from an accredited institution of higher education (official transcript required to validate education).
• Passing the paraprofessional certification exam can substitute for the educational requirement to meet the highly qualified status.
• All applicants for this position must be highly qualified prior to the start of their employment with Orange County Public Schools.
• Ability to fulfill the dexterity and physical requirements of the work, and effectively attend to the needs of school age children; previous vocational training or work experience in a licensed childcare environment preferred.
• Demonstrated written and oral linguistic skills in English and in a minimum of one (1) target language (Spanish, French, Creole, etc.).

Qualifications

• Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and advisory data and information in both English and the designated target language.
• Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may require ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may require ability to utilize principles of fractions and/or interpret graphs.
• Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.