Out of School Time Special Education Educational Assistant

Overview

Position Type: Support Staff/ Special Education Educational Assistant

Date Posted: 7/22/2025

Location: District Wide

Date Available: September 2025

Mission and Values: We demonstrate passion, pride, and perseverance. We acknowledge and disrupt oppressive systems. Our diversity fuels learning. We fiercely lead in justice-centered education. We stand front and center.

• Group Life and AD&D Insurance
• Supplemental Life and Dependent Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability (LTD) Insurance
• Full-service community school
• Pet Insurance
• All One Health:
  Supportive counseling and coaching
• Breastfeeding Friendly Certified Workplace
• Staff Wellness Opportunities:
  Annual benefits fair, wellness challenges and campaigns, free yoga and personal trainer sessions
• Good Human Work:
  Free onsite therapy service
• Onsite Health Clinic:
  Free, onsite medical care to help you improve your overall health and wellness. The clinic offers all of the primary care services you would expect from a family physician/general practitioner.

Dates: The position will run September 8, 2025 through May 22, 2026

Hours: Hours will vary depending on employee's BCCS assignments, but will be within 1:45 to 4:30 at BCE and 3:15 to 6:00 at BCS, Mondays through Thursdays.

• Assists and tutors students with disabilities with instructional and non-instructional activities including academic work, enrichment activities, toileting, feeding, dressing, mobility, etc.
• Establishes positive relationships with students and acts as a role model for appropriate social skills and behaviors in all situations.
• Adapts after school program activities, assignments and/or materials for the purpose of supporting and reinforcing activity objectives with the student’s disability and needs in mind.
• Helps academic instructors, program staff, and community partners support student behavior by applying proactive strategies.
• Assumes safety responsibilities for students in all environments.
• Reviews student IEPs.
• Reinforces instruction through individual or small group activities; keeps students focused on tasks assigned by staff.
• Oversees and supervises students throughout the program, including field trips, program events, boarding and unboarding buses, meal and snack periods, recess and other settings where staff may not be present; chaperones students to and from activities.
• Assists students with learning organizational and computer literacy skills.
• Maintains service logs and records on students.
• Prepares lesson and activity materials
• Observes students  performance and records relevant data to assess progress.
• Supports students with disabilities in using assigned assistive devices, supportive technology and assistance accessing facilities.
• Organizes and supervises games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental and social development.
• Attend staff meetings
• Collaborates with Community Schools Site Coordinator, OST Lead staff, and students IEP team as needed regarding student needs.
• Supports data collection for after school program grant funding requirements
• Other duties as assigned.

Associates Degree or 60 credits undergraduate level; experience working as an educational or teacher's assistant, paraprofessional, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Or a passing Para Pro exam (This may be completed 30 days after hire). Para Pro exam information can be found on the district website.

Pay: $20.47/hr - $25.69/hr based on experience

Dates: The position will run September 8, 2025 through May 22, 2026

Hours will vary depending on assignments, but will be within the stated windows above.

• Group Life and AD&D Insurance
• Supplemental Life and Dependent Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability (LTD) Insurance
• Full-service community school
• Pet Insurance
• All One Health:
  Supportive counseling and coaching
• Breastfeeding Friendly Certified Workplace
• Staff Wellness Opportunities:
  Annual benefits fair, wellness challenges and campaigns, free yoga and personal trainer sessions
• Good Human Work:
  Free onsite therapy service
• Onsite Health Clinic:
  Free, onsite medical care to help you improve your overall health and wellness. The clinic offers all of the primary care services you would expect from a family physician/general practitioner.

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