Teacher Aide-Bus Monitor - Full Time

Starting Wage Range: $18.86/hr. - $24.07/hr.

Job Summary:

To assist in any area of the Youth Education program as instructed by the coordinator. 

Essential Functions:

• Works with staff in the classroom, on the playground, and in field trip supervision. Also works with cook as needed.
• Assists in keeping classroom facilities clean.
• Replenishes materials and supplies for classroom activities.
• Assists staff in preparing snacks.
• Assists in craft and culture classes.
• Communicates bus rules prior to boarding and exiting the bus to insure order and safety
• Maintains discipline on bus at all times.
• Assists with boarding children onto and off of the bus, making sure each child is secured in his/her safety harness before departure and remains restrained while in travel.
• Enforces child drop-off procedures/policies.
• Assists with any necessary paperwork.
• Provide childcare during parent meetings and classes
• Performs a variety of other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Education, Experience, and Licenses:

• Requires a high school diploma or GED equivalency, and a minimum of six (6) months working with children.
• OR equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Qualifications,Registrations, and Certifications:

• Ability to work well with children and staff required.
• Must be dependable and willing to participate in additional training.
• Requires TB and Hep B vaccinations and a physical every three years.
• First Aid certification required.
• Food handler’s card required.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to Native American culture required. Native American employees preferred. 

Environmental Factors and Conditions/Physical Requirements:

• Continually requires the ability to express or receive detailed information or important instructions through oral communication.
• Continually requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm. Requires repetitive movement of wrists, hands and/or fingers. Often requires walking or moving about to accomplish tasks.
• Requires standing and/or sitting for sustained periods of time, raising objects from a lower to a higher position and/or moving objects horizontally.
• Continually requires color identification, close vision, far vision, and depth perception.

• The worker is frequently subject to classroom noise.
• Occasionally requires lifting of up to 40 pounds.
• Due to the nature of the interactions with other employees and the public we serve, employees may be required to provide documentation of, or receive, certain health vaccinations.
• This position is frequently subject to inside environmental conditions which provide protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes, and is occasionally subject to outside environmental conditions.
• May be called upon to serve as a Disaster Reservist during Emergencies, or when the Tribal Emergency Operations Center is opened.
• Local travel is occasionally required. Travel outside of the state is infrequently required.

Background Check:

• Candidates for this position will be subject to criminal and character background checks and may be subject to fingerprinting.
• Must maintain registration in the State of Oregon Central Background Registry.