Program Assistant – Learning Assistance - Part-time

h2About the Department/h2pdiv style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: center;"strong style="font-weight: 700; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"Firebaugh Center/strong/divstrong style="font-weight: 700; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"br/strongdiv style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: center;"strongProgram Assistant - Learning Assistance/strong/divdiv style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: center;"br style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"/divdiv style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: center;"strong style="font-weight: 700; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"Classified Range 39/strong/divdiv style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: center;"span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"strong style="font-weight: 700;"Hiring Range:/strongnbsp;$20.41 - $21.65 per hour/span/divdiv style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: center;"span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"strong style="font-weight: 700;"Full Range:/strongnbsp;$20.41nbsp;/spanspan style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"- $26.63 per hour/span/divdiv style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: center;"br style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"/divdiv style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: center;"strong style="font-weight: 700; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0;"Schedule:/strong/divdiv style="text-align: center;"Monday to Wednesday - 8:00am - 2:30pm/divdiv style="text-align: center;"Thursday - 8:00am - 3:30pm/divbrdiv style="text-align: center;"25 hours per week/12 months per year/divstrongbr/strongdiv style="text-align: center;"strongGrant Funded/strong/div/ph2Position Duties/h2pp style="margin: 0;"stronguspan style="color: inherit;"Summary/span/u/strong/pp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"Provides tutorial and technical assistance to students with learning disabilities, special, and/or remedial learning need, either in a classroom or similar laboratory setting, and who are involved in all levels of course work offered by the College.nbsp;brnbsp;/span/pp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"stronguDistinguished Characteristics/u/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"The Program Assistant supports instruction in classroom, scheduled classroom labs, and walk-in learning labs.nbsp;/span/pp style="margin: 0;"br/pp style="margin: 0;"stronguspan style="color: inherit;"Essential Duties and Responsibilities/span/u/strong/pp style="margin: 0;"strongspan style="color: inherit;"Learning Disability Assessment Testing/span/strong/pdiv style="margin: 0;"ul style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"li style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"Facilitates post-testing exercises designed to improve student visual-perceptual (visual memory, speed, and accuracy), cognitive memory, auditory discrimination skills./span/li/ul/divp style="margin: 0;"strongspan style="color: inherit;"Tutoring and Laboratory Support/span/strong/pul style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"lispan style="color: inherit;"Tutors and instructs students in small group and individual settings within a laboratory environment to develop and increase skills in auditory discrimination, advanced spelling, decoding and multi-sensory learning strategies, and programs to enhance visual memory, speed, and accuracy, and cognitive memory skills./span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Orients students to the Center’s programs and services, providing materials and technical assistance, and assisting with exercises. Instructs students in laboratory procedures, and the purposes and uses of materials, including computer-aided instructional applications.nbsp;/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0;"strongspan style="color: inherit;"Learning Disabled Student Accommodations/span/strong/pul style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"lispan style="color: inherit;"Provides reasonable accommodations for learning disabled students.nbsp;/span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Provides information to instructors about the determined needs and rights of students with learning disabilities and available test-taking facilitation services./span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Proctors and reinforces instructor’s directions for examinations.nbsp;Ensures security of test materials and documents.nbsp;Logs students in and out for testing.nbsp;Maintain a quiet testing environment and appropriate testing conditions.nbsp;Maintains active and accessible files for tests, forms, contracts, and related documents./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"strongAdministrative Support/strong/span/pul style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"lispan style="color: inherit;"Compiles and enters into files and computer-aided records, confidential student demographic, testing, medical, and Student Education Plan information. Compiles statistics of accommodations provided disabled students. nbsp;nbsp;/span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Provides information and assistance about services and accommodations provided or facilitated by the Center and other programs to enhance and expand learning disabled students’ educational opportunity.nbsp;Develops and updates printed materials./span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Verifies enrollment status and eligibility for assistance in areas such as priority registration, special textbooks, and classroom note-takers.nbsp;Registers students for laboratories.nbsp;May assistnbsp;students with actual registration./span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Implements individualized programs for learning disabled students, guided by a student education contract./span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Assists in the development of policies and procedures for the Disabled Students Programs amp; Services department.nbsp;Participates in the development of learning training programs for students with disabilities./span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Serves as an outreach liaison to, and advocate for the interests of learning-disabled students.nbsp;Meets with College staff, students and parents, and secondary schools to introduce and promote the Center./span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Performs regular and recurring clerical functions.nbsp;Prepares routine correspondence and reports that may contain private student information.nbsp;Ensures that students sign into the High Technology Center.nbsp;Records testing attendance./span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Serves as a liaison between the student and instructors and tutors. Keeps instructors appraised of student testing progress.nbsp;/span/lilispan style="color: inherit;"Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position./span/li/ul/ph2Minimum Qualifications/h2pp style="margin: 0;"strongspan style="color: inherit;"Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities/span/strong/pp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"Requires knowledge of the range of materials that can be used to enhance or supplement learning. Requires knowledge and awareness of learning disabilities/problems with respect to the study of pre-college and college curricula. Requires knowledge of pertinent aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Requires working knowledge of tutorial and instructional techniques. Requires a working knowledge of computer-aided instructional techniques and general purpose and software applications that enhance learning. Requires knowledge of and skill in using proper English grammar, vocabulary, syntax, spelling, and punctuation. Requires sufficient human relation skills to convey technical concepts to others and to facilitate a small group learning process. Requires sufficient math skills to tally sums, ratios, and statistics. Requires a basic knowledge of standard and common office clerical practices.brnbsp;br/spanspan style="color: inherit;"Requires the ability to carry out all the responsibilities of the job including general instruction support, providing general education tutoring and instruction for adult students of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and skill levels. Requires the ability to assess learning disabilities by administering the adult-norm diagnostic instruments used by the College. Requires the ability to administer pre- and post-testing exercises and feedback. Requires the ability to tutor/instruct students individually and in small groups. Requires the ability to make informal presentations to small peer groups, for example study groups. Requires the ability to relate positively to students in a teaching/learning environment, develop and maintain productive working relationships, and facilitate learning to students having learning disabilities. Requires the ability to listen actively and effectively, identify and solve problems, facilitate learning for students, and build student confidence in general learning ability. nbsp; Requires the ability to supervise students, administer tests, and perform general clerical tasks. Requires the ability to operate computer hardware and utilize software applications that are dedicated to the subject matter.brnbsp;/span/pp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"strongPhysical Abilities/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"The incumbent performs work that is largely of a sedentary nature. Requires sufficient ambulatory to move to workstations. Requires sufficient arm, hand, finger dexterity to use a personal computer keyboard and other office equipment and apply learning exercises. Requires normal hearing and speaking skills to communicate with staff and students in one-on-one and small group settings. Requires visual acuity to read numbers and words and to observe students perform tests and assignments.br/span/pp style="margin: 0;"br/pp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"strongWorking Conditions/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0;"span style="color: inherit;"Work is performed indoors where minimal safety considerations exist./span/pbrstrongspan style="color: inherit;"Education and Experience/span/strongbrspan style="color: inherit;"This position will require an associate’s degree and six months experience in a tutoring or special learning environment. /spanbrbrspan style="color: inherit;"Bachelor’s degree preferred.brnbsp;/spanbrspan style="color: inherit;"strongstrongLicenses and Certificates/strong/strongbrRequire a valid driver’s license./span/ph2Other Qualifications/h2pu style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0"strong style="font-weight: 700"REQUIRED MATERIALS:/strong/ubr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0"ol style="padding: 0 0 0 40px; margin: 0 0 3pt; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0"li style="padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: justify"Completed Online Application/lili style="padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: justify"Professional resume./lili style="padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: justify"Unofficial transcripts verifying course work completed/li/olp style="margin: 1em 0; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"strong style="font-weight: 700"*It is the candidate's responsibility to make sure that all required materials have been received. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.*/strong/pp style="margin: 1em 0; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"West Hills Community College District is an equal opportunity employer committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender status, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, genetic information or covered veteran's status consistent with applicable federal and state laws. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for applicants with disabilities who self-disclose./pp style="margin: 1em 0; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"strong style="font-weight: 700"strong style="font-weight: 700"Background Check: /strongAll of our positions require the ability to pass a background and live scan./strong/pp style="margin: 1em 0; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"strong style="font-weight: 700"strong style="font-weight: 700"Selection Process: /strongDepending upon the number of applicants who meet the minimum qualifications, the examination process may include a qualifications screening by a committee. Those demonstrating the strongest backgrounds related to the position will be invited to interview./strong/p/p