Educational Aide; Special Education Assessor

Summary

About the position:
This position is located at the DoWEA Americas Southeast District Field Office, Fort Benning, GA. Description of Working Environment:
Work is performed in a classroom setting.

• Communicate with parents, staff or others regarding scheduling meetings with Assessor via email and phone.
• Communicate with appropriate personnel to notify them of suspense dates and when each phase of the assessment process is completed.
• Use judgment to answer recurring questions, resolve problems, and control and restrict personal information to those with a “need to know”.
• Organize and maintain assessor files beginning with assessment planning through eligibility completion.
• Develop and maintain data system for tracking status of the assessment process.
• Enter assessment data into school level data management system.
• Provide information to students, parents, staff or others while adhering to school's policies and procedures.
• Provide clerical support under the direction of the assessor(s).

Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions. Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions. Credits or degrees earned from a foreign college or university must be evaluated prior to acceptance. Three evaluation procedures are acceptable: a. The work must be evaluated and interpreted by a current member of National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). This website provides a list of current organizations who can perform your evaluation.

You must select and work directly with one of these organizations. b. The foreign institution that awarded the degree is on a list endorsed by a regionally accredited university or on a list endorsed by a state department of education for the purpose of teacher certification in that state (this procedure will require an English translation of the transcript and a copy of the document awarding the degree, together with an authenticated list produced by an American university or a state department of education);

and c. The work may be evaluated by the graduate division of a regionally accredited university and declared the equivalent of similar undergraduate or graduate work in a U.S. institution. Graduates of non-accredited institutions may have their undergraduate work validated by admittance to graduate school and completion of a minimum of 5 SH of credit in a regionally accredited graduate college.

Permanent Educational Aides working over 32 hours per week may be required to have their pay spread per their local bargaining unit. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Applicants with a disability who need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should notify David Walton at ra.