SUMMARY OF JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide a safe and healthy afterschool environment for children in Pre-K-6th grades
- Responsible for following all program standards for position to meet agency and regulatory standards
- Plan and provide afterschool participants with developmentally appropriate activities and experiences that meet a broad range of skills and interests
- Complete and implement lesson plan sheets weekly
- Establish positive interpersonal relationships among all individuals in the program
- Provide constant supervision of all children at all times.
- Use approved discipline techniques when dealing with a child's inappropriate behavior
- Consider each child in relation to cultural and socioeconomic background, treating each child with dignity and respect
- Assist with food and meal service distribution
- Display sound judgment in all situations; Exhibit self-control
- Share upkeep of facilities used by the agency; Observe scheduled work hours by being punctual and prepared
- Maintain confidentiality of parent, children and staff information
- Function as a cooperative member of the team; Attend staff meetings and agency training when available
- Recognize, document and take appropriate action of suspected child abuse and neglect, illness or accident
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:
- Self-Awareness: Ability to fully understand the impact emotions have on performance, assessment of strengths and weaknesses, relationships, and others. Demonstrates self-confidence, initiative, motivation, optimism and flexibility.
- Self-Management: Ability to manage behaviors, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious and productive way. Models the ability to implement self-control in assessing frustrations and failures and models resilience and courage. Understands personal responsibility in different aspects of life and work, and what is needed to fulfill that responsibility.
- Social Awareness: Ability to understand and learn about the diverse perspective of others. Includes listening, honoring others views, assessing impact of words, and the desire to serve others in effort to meet their needs appropriately and professionally.
- Relationship Skills: Ability to build relationships which model caring, concern and healthy conflict. Demonstrates positive methods of collaboration and conflict resolution. Ability to positively lead and inspire others and integrate such models personally. Demonstrates ability to support positive work culture, which encourages results from others.
- Responsible Decision Making: Ability to make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on ethical standards, safety concerns, and social norms; the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions; and a consideration of the well-being of oneself and others.
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS:
- Requires daily standing, sitting, bending and stooping (sitting will be limited to about 5% of your day)
- Requires normal range of hearing and vision
- Requires the ability to lift 40 pounds
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Ability to work within a public school setting
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
- No or very limited exposure to physical risk
- Exposure to childhood diseases
This position description does not list all the duties of the job. Incumbent may be asked to perform other functions and duties. Incumbent will be evaluated in part based upon performance of the responsibilities in this job description.
