Paraprofessional

Work Schedule

This position is 29 hours a week with the following schedule: Monday-Thursday: 8:30 AM-2:30 PM, Friday: 8:00 AM-1:00 PM. This is a fully on-site, school-based position requiring in-person attendance at one of Democracy Prep's school locations. Remote or work-from-home options are not available for this role.

Who You Are

• An educator with an unwavering commitment to the Democracy Prep mission of college success and authentic civic engagement for our scholars.
• An educator with a desire to assist students with special needs in a rigorous, college preparation learning environment.
• Somebody with the emotional maturity necessary for the specialized work involved.

What You'll Do

• Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by certified staff.
• Assist the certified staff in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Monitor work, correct papers, and supervise curriculum-based tasting and makeup work as assigned by the certified staff.
• Alert the certified staff to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Perform assigned supervision of students (deemed to be) at risk and requiring additional generalized behavioral support during lunch periods, play periods, and on field trips.
• Perform assigned non-instructional classroom duties, such as snack time, bathroom, and clothing routines with students identified for at risk behavioral support.
• When requested, serve as a resource person to the Academic Collaboration Team in response to students requiring intervention level supports.
• Demonstrate ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students in school environment and community.
• Participate in in-service training programs as approved.
• Perform other such duties/assignments as directed by the certified staff.

Compensation

The pay for this position ranges from $19.90 to $24.30 an hour and is commensurate with prior years of equivalent experience.

Our mission is to educate responsible citizen-scholars who will change the world. We strongly believe that by building a DREAM team that represents numerous perspectives, backgrounds, and expertises, we can achieve this goal together. This is a value we highly support and strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.