FTE School Monitor

Job Details

• Position Type:
  Other/ School Monitor
• Date Posted: 11/19/2025
• Location:
  
  Palmer Jr. Middle School (High-Needs School)
• Closing Date: 12/01/2025
• District:
  Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
• Position:
  School Monitor
• Position FTE: .25 FTE
• Pay Grade: 2
• Starting Wage: $17.45
• Days Per Year: 192
• Shift hours: 2 hours per day

Under direct supervision monitors student behavior and safety while on school grounds. Monitors student activities during lunch periods and recess (both indoors and outdoors) to ensure appropriate behavior and safety is maintained according to established guidelines. Directs students in proper use of school equipment/facilities and prevents and/or intervenes in student arguments/fights.

• Monitors student activities during lunch periods and recess (both indoors and outdoors) to ensure appropriate behavior and safety is maintained according to established guidelines. Directs students in proper use of school equipment/facilities and prevents and/or intervenes in student arguments/fights.
• Intercepts unfamiliar personnel on school grounds, requests identification and/or directs them to school office.
• Assists instructors in providing first aid to students and/or accompanies injured students to the school nurse.
• May be required to perform basic clerical and/or support duties including providing library or office assistance (e.g. filing, copying, answering phones, sorting/distributing mail).

Knowledge of children's games and outdoor sports desired. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions in written, oral, or picture forms. Ability to deal with problems involving several variables in children's play situations. Will be required to supervise students outside to temperatures of
-10.

Position requirements at entry:
High School Diploma. Previous education, training, work or life experience which provides reasonable evidence of the successful performance of the various tasks listed.

A valid Alaska Driver's License.

Light Work:
Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work.

Apply online. Applications and/or Transfers must be received in the Human Resources office by 4:30PM of the closing date. Days per year are subject to change.