High School Building Monitor

Under the guidance of the High School Principal and the High School Resource Officer, the building monitors help to ensure the safety and well‑being of the student population and assist the administration and faculty in maintaining a positive school environment.

• Supervise the orderly flow of students in the school building and on school grounds, as assigned.
• Check lavatories, hallways, stairwells, parking lot, and other locations within the building and on school grounds on a regular basis to ensure students are on task.
• Monitor students during the lunch period and ensure students behave appropriately and dispose of their trash in an orderly fashion.
• Monitor the student tardy table to ensure tardy students sign in and are accounted for.
• Monitor visitors to the building, ensuring they sign in and out as required by School Committee Policy.
• Monitor students during detention duty.
• As assigned, pick up students from classrooms and escort them to the main office to meet with the Assistant Principals on discipline/attendance issues.
• Periodically check the faculty copy rooms to report any machine malfunctions or supply needs.
• Understand all student and faculty rules and report all violations and/or student behavioral incidents to the Building Principal, the School Resource Officer, or school administrator.
• Perform any similar duty or responsibility as assigned.
• Ability to take direction from the building principal and to work cooperatively with administration and faculty in providing a healthy, safe, and positive environment for students.
• Ability to understand the behavioral expectations established in the Student Handbook and other related documents and work with adults to address student issues if they arise.
• Ability to work with and understand adolescents and de-escalate potential confrontations.
• High school diploma required; work experience with adolescents preferred.

Building monitors will be hired on a part‑time basis. Start and end times may vary according to assignments, but all will fall between the hours of 7:00 AM and 3:00 PM.

Building monitors will work for 182 days: the two days before school is in session and the 180 student‑day calendar. Otherwise, monitors will report to work only when school is in session for students and will not work on school holidays or during vacation periods.

Duties may require prolonged standing and/or walking while at work.