Expanded Learning Instructional Aide; El Portal Elementary)(Yosemite National Park

After-School Expanded Learning Program Aide

This position will serve in the after-school expanded learning program for El Portal Elementary School. The position is temporary and may be renewed annually (dependent on funding).

Qualifications:

Required:

Education equivalent to completion of 12th grade and successful passage of the Instructional Aide test or meet the NCLB (No Child Left Behind Act) requirements for paraprofessionals. Valid current California Driver's license. Some positions within the classification may require other specific experience to assist in knowledge and/or skill acquisition. Desirable:
Previous experience in the public school setting. Valid first aid care or certificate. Recent successful experience interacting with youth in an after school program.

This position is part of the Classified Employee Unit at MCUSD/MCOE and will be placed depending on experience on the Classified Employee Salary schedule on Range 14. NCLB (No Child Left Behind Compliant.) would either need to have an AA degree or higher or 48 or more college units (towards a BA) (must provide unofficial transcripts attached to the application) and/or the passing of our district's Instructional Aide Eligibility Test.

If taken and passed at another school district's paraprofessional test, please attach proof or passage to the application. If you need to schedule a test please copy and paste this link to register or see "links" for this posting. MCUSD Educational Services Department offers free tutoring.

Expected start date is August 17, 2026. This position will serve in the after-school expanded learning program for El Portal Elementary School. The position is temporary and may be renewed annually (dependent on funding). This position will serve at the El Portal Elementary School. The position is temporary and may be renewed annually (dependent on funding) El Portal is a small town in the Merced River Canyon fifteen miles west of Yosemite Valley and thirty miles east of Mariposa.

This location provides amazing outdoor learning opportunities for the students of our Necessary Small School. Curriculum and instruction are driven by district-adopted academic standards. Instruction is often theme-based, with strong science, visual, and performing arts components. Physical education includes learning to swim, ski, hike in the mountains and play tennis. Parents and our Yosemite National Park partners contribute to the rich learning environment.

For Google Map location use link here: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Mariposa County Unified School District is located in California's beautiful Central Foothills near Yosemite National Park.

The Mariposa County Unified School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis and/or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, political affiliation, pregnancy and related conditions, race, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, Vietnam Era Veterans' status, or any other basis prohibited by California state and federal nondiscrimination laws respectively, and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

Not all bases of discrimination will apply to both education services and employment. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policies:
Marcia Miller, Deputy Superintendent/Title IX Coordinator; P.O. Box 8;
Mariposa, CA 95338;