HEAD START - RXII - Substitute Classroom Aide, Seasonal

pspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"strongSUMMARY OF PRIMARY FUNCTION/strong/span/p p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"span style="background: white;"The Classroom span style="color: black;"Aide/span (Sub) is responsible for assisting the Classroom Staff in the implementation of a classroom program designed to give each child an opportunity to participate in experiences that will enrich his/her development in a safe environment. Classroom span style="color: black;"Aide/span Subs take the place of classroom staff absent for a period of time on an as needed basis, i.e.: illness, vacation, or training.They also /spanhelp recruit potential parents by providing information to them about the various program services and benefits offered to enrolled children and families./span/p p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"strongESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES/strong/span/p p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"emstrongClassroom Operations/strong/em/span/p ol style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assists classroom staff with implementation of daily activities and classroom management principles./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assist in implementing classroom activities around concepts that incorporate the interests of the classroom community and meet goals and objectives outlined in the Creative Curriculum./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Maintain enough flexibility to allow childrenrsquo;s interests to guide classroom direction./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Be responsible for and lead some activities as requested by the Teacher,nbsp;span style="color: black;"Preschool /spanAssistant Teacher span style="color: black;"or center leadership. /span/span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Establish and maintain positive, pleasant and trusting relationships with parents, respecting their individual needs and maintaining professional and appropriate boundaries./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Know all medical conditions/needs of the children in the classroom (including allergies) and how to respond to these needs.nbsp;/span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Discuss what will be communicated to parents with the classroom team in order to give parents consistent messages in accordance with the Data Privacy policy./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Tends to children's personal hygiene needs including diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assume other duties as requested by the classroom staff or span style="color: black;"center leadership/span./span/li /ol p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px;"nbsp;/p p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"emstrongSafety amp; Sanitation/strong/em/span/p ol style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Maintains a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and hand washing, and assures the well-being and safety of all of the children in that environment./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Utilizes disciplinary measures appropriately as outlined in the Behavior Guidance Policies and Procedures./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Protects all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse by anyone in any program activity, and immediately reports any such incident to the person in charge./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Provides for the physical safety of each child from arrival time until departure time./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assures that safety and sanitation policies and procedures are followed appropriately./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assures that children are dressed appropriately for the weather and type of play in which they are engaged./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assures that children are supervised at all times./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Have or obtain within 90 days of hire a First Aid and CPR Certification as well as maintain the certification during employment. Administers First Aid and/or CPR (if trained) when necessary./span/li /ol p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px;"nbsp;/p p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"emstrongCommunication/strong/em/span/p ol style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Greets children and their parents warmly and with enthusiasm./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Maintains a cooperative attitude of working together with other staff, parents and volunteers in planning and implementing activities for the program/classroom./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Maintains a positive, calm attitude and a pleasant, soothing voice, and models this attitude and voice for parents and others working or volunteering in the program./span/li /ol p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px;"nbsp;/p p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"strongMINIMUM REQUIREMENTS/strong/span/p ol style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Must be at least span style="color: black;"16 /spanyears of age; span style="color: black;"candidates strongly encouraged to obtain their high school diploma or GED./span/span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Excellent communication skills./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Must enjoy and respect young children and their families./span/li li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Comfortable working with computers, willing and able to learn program specific systems./span/li /ol p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px;"nbsp;/p p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"Tri-Valley is a non-profit community action agency. /spanspan style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"We believe in the value of all human beings. It is that belief that drives our efforts to identify needs, seek resources and provide opportunities for people to thrive./span/p pspan style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"Our work is committed to strengthening our communities so that its citizens have better places to live, work, worship and enjoy./span/p pemstrongspan style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"The mission of Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc. is to provide opportunities to improve the quality of life for people and communities./span/strong/em/p pemspan style="font-style: normal; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: #fdfdfd;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"If you are an applicant with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources at 218-281-0536 or a rel="noopener" href="mailto:hr@tvoc.org" target="_blank"hr@tvoc.org/a./span/span/em/p pnbsp;/p pstrongemspan style="font-style: normal; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: #fdfdfd;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"Application Deadline: Until Fillednbsp;/span/span/em/strong/p pstrongemspan style="font-style: normal; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: #fdfdfd;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"Employee Type: Seasonal Substitute/span/span/em/strong/p pstrongemspan style="font-style: normal; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: #fdfdfd;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"Hours per Week: As Needednbsp;/span/span/em/strong/p pstrongemspan style="font-style: normal; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: #fdfdfd;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"Shift Schedule: As Needed/span/span/em/strong/p pstrongemspan style="font-style: normal; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: #fdfdfd;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"Service Area Coverage: Danube, MN/span/span/em/strong/p pstrongemspan style="font-style: normal; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: #fdfdfd;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"Benefits: /span/span/emESST/strong/p pstrongemspan style="font-style: normal; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: #fdfdfd;"span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"If any questions about the position, please contact: Sandra Whited, SANDY.WHITED@TVOC.ORG/span/span/em/strong/p pnbsp;/p