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Bus Monitor - IDEA Harlingen (Immediate Opening)

harlingen, TX

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Job description

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

What We Offer

Compensation: Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate of $10.00/hour

Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses and professional development. IDEA may offer a relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

What You Bring -- Competencies:

Ability to follow verbal instructions and communicate effectively

Ability to operate safety equipment and adaptive equipment

Ability to work well with children with disabilities

Qualifications:

Education: High School Diploma or GED

Experience:

License or Certification:

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 bus and cross street.

Take children into 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 appropriate administrator.

Communicate with teachers and parents on a daily basis regarding student behavior while on bus.

Become familiar with all routes to and from school campus to be of assistance to driver.

Maintain an updated route schedule.

Supervise use of seat belts, harnesses, or car seats by students.

Follow emergency procedures and help 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 driver keep bus clean.

Work irregular hours as needed.

We look for Team and Family who embody the following 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

Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization

Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes

We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to 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.

About IDEA Public Schools

At IDEA Public Schools, we believeeach and everychild can go to college.Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools.

IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top highschoolslists. IDEA serves 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.

When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

At IDEA the Staff Culture and Belonging Team uses our Core Values to promote human connection and a culture of integrity, respect, and belonging for all Team and Family members. Learn more about our Commitment to Core Values here:

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Worksite address

harlingen, TX, 78552, US

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