id='p17617_46167'>Special Education Paraprofessional JobID: 17617
Position Type:
Special Education/Special Education Paraprofessional
Date Posted:
8/4/2026
Location:
Oxford Virtual Academy
Date Available:
August 2026
District:
Oxford Community Schools Additional Information: Show/Hide
Special Education Paraprofessional
Oxford Virtual Academy & Oxford High School
2026-27 School Year
Primary Function: To provide instructional, technical, and supervisory support to staff and students in the building; monitor and supervise progress and behavior in the online classroom; utilize PBIS and de-escalation/choice strategies while supervising student(s) in lab environment; provide daily updates for counselor administration.
Qualifications â Education & Experience:
- Associates degree or equivalent preferred, minimum high school diploma.
- Ability to effectively relate with students, staff, and parents.
- Ability to assist with the instruction of students.
- Ability to lift and maneuver 50 pounds, unaided.
- Meet requirements set forth in applicable state and federal laws.
- Ability to manage students in individual, small group, and whole group situations.
- Must exhibit a pleasant personality and positive attitude toward working with students, administration, staff, and community members.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Supervise and monitor students relating to before, during and after school activities as directed by the building administrator(s).
- Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills assigned by the teacher.
- Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
- Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
- Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by teachers.
- Serve as a source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
- Participate in job related in-service training programs.
- Aid students needing assistance in self-care, including toileting, intermittent catheterization, and other health care duties, as required and with proper training.
- Demonstrate the ability to be flexible when working with students, teachers, and administrators.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the student's disability and display a positive attitude toward his/her capabilities and to the student as an individual.
- Maintain regular and predictable in-person attendance.
- Support the vision and mission of Oxford Community Schools.
- Other duties as assigned by the Executive Director of Special Populations or Building Principal.
OESPA 2026-27 base hourly rate: $17.20
Schedule:
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday mornings; Oxford High School (745 N. Oxford Rd.)
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday afternoons; Oxford Virtual Academy (775 W. Drahner Rd.)
- Wednesdays all day; Oxford Virtual Academy
To begin: August 2026
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