Lunchroom/Playground Monitor

About the role

Supervises and ensures safety of children during recess and lunch time at an elementary school.

Responsibilities

• Monitors playground and/or lunchroom to deter behavioral problems
• Enforces all school rules of student behavior
• Issues verbal warnings, writes up discipline referrals, reports misconduct, and requests assistance from appropriate personnel as required
• Monitors student(s), ensuring their compliance to district/building policies/playground rules and regulations
• Assists students opening milk/juice cartons and food packages
• Assists in cleaning up spills and wiping down tables
• Supervises school grounds/parking lots
• Supervises student(s), checks all student passes, and keeps students out of unauthorized areas
• Inspects playground grounds and equipment, notifying school administrator of necessary repairs and/or improvements
• Locates students sought by building administration and escorts students to office as needed
• Directs visitors to office
• Works with administration to develop and enforce security policies and procedures
• Reports consistently for work as scheduled
• Attains proficient or higher evaluations on established Performance Standards

Qualifications

Required:

• First Aid/CPR - American Heart Assoc. / Red Cross / etc.
• High school graduate - high school diploma or equivalent

Preferred:

• None specified

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with individuals from many diverse backgrounds and professions including supervisors, administrators, coworkers, staff, students, parents, and the general public
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to manage simultaneous demands and set clear priorities
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision
• Ability to work days, hours, locations, and assignments as directed by the supervisor within the position responsibilities
• Ability to create, access, input, retrieve, and manipulate information in various software systems
• Ability to establish and maintain accurate record keeping, document management, and filing systems
• Ability to greet and interact with the public in a courteous and professional manner
• Ability to adapt to changing technologies and to learn functionality of new equipment and systems
• Ability to perform routine bookkeeping and clerical accounting tasks effectively and efficiently
• Computer proficiency including office productivity applications
• Considerable knowledge of policies, procedures, and overall district functions
• Demonstrated ability to manage simultaneous demands and set clear priorities
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team setting
• Demonstrates effective organizational and time management skills
• Detail-oriented
• Energetic, creative, innovative, flexible
• Excellent cooperative, collaborative, and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of Special Education, other educational programming, and associated legal requirements as related to the needs of the students assigned to the teacher
• Promotes a positive climate, culture, and community
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, written, listening, and verbal communication skills
• Student-centered and relationship-focused
• Understanding of data privacy laws and their implications for the educational community
• Willingness to participate in ongoing training as required
• Commitment to the education of students as a primary responsibility
• Communicates effectively with students and adults in a wide variety of settings
• Demonstrates citizenship, compassion, courage, discernment, excellence, honesty, hope, integrity, patience, perseverance, reliability, respect, responsibility, and trustworthiness

Work Environment

• The noise level in the work environment may alternate among quiet, moderate, and loud
• The incumbent is frequently required to interact in person and through communication methods with the students, public, and/or other staff
• The incumbent is required to work scheduled school/work hours and/or days
• The incumbent may be required to work extended school/work hours and/or days as directed
• Work is generally performed outdoors and/or in the school lunchroom
• The incumbent may experience exposure to adverse weather conditions
• The incumbent may experience exposure to high noise levels

Physical Demands

• Sits, stands, walks, stoops, kneels, and crouches/squats while performing duties
• Has oral and auditory capacity enabling interaction interpersonally and/or through communication devices
• Uses eyes, hands, and finger coordination enabling the use of equipment and writing utensils
• Typical demands require staff to lift and carry up to 20 pounds, and may be higher for some assignments depending on position and student need
• Climb stairs, ladders, and/or stools; reach, hold, grasp and turn objects; use fingers to operate computer keyboards; feel the shape, size and temperature of objects

Schedule

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 10
• Hours Per Day: 2.0 hour(s) per day
• Number of Days Per Year: 162 Days
• M-F

Pay

$17.97 - $18.87 per hour

Benefits

Part-time benefits eligible. For more information on our benefits, please visit Employee Benefits | Academy District 20 (asd20.org).