Building Aide

Building Aide - 6.25 hours/day

Muscatine Community School District McKinley Elementary - Muscatine, Iowa Open in Google Maps

Job : 5903322

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Aug 26, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Muscatine Schools is hiringa Building Aide forMcKinley Elementary School to assist with large Kindergarten class sizes. Building Aides are assigned to work 9-months/year while school is in session.

This position is scheduled for 6.25 hrs/day, Monday through Friday, with an approximate schedule of 7:45am - 2:30pm. Starting pay forthis position is $18.26/hour.

Bilingual preferred or highly desirable.

Please see below job description for a list of the duties and responsibilities of a Building Aide.

An interview, pre-employment background check, and onboarding/training session will be required prior to a candidate beginning as a Para educator with Muscatine Schools.

For assistance with the online application, please contact the Muscatine School District Human Resources Department at .

MUSCATINE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

JOB REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS

POSITION TITLE: Building Aide

EMPLOYEE UNIT: Secretarial/Clerical/Aide/Para educator

REPORT TO: Principal/Assistant Principal

STATUS: Nine (9) month position

Normal Work Day:7:45am - 2:30pm. Hours will be assigned and Principal will schedule based upon student needs.

OBJECTIVE:

Supervise students in various settings and manage appropriate student behavior in these areas.

MAJOR DUTIES:

A Building Aide may be assigned to one or more of these duty stations. The following areas are examples of these duty stations but may not be present in every job:

Assist in kindergarten (high class sizes).

• Monitor students entering the cafeteria during passing period to do so in an orderly fashion.
• Watch students as they go through the lunch lines to make sure they are paying for all items selected and abiding by lunch line rules as time allows.
• Assist in the orderly movement of the lunch lines and manage appropriate student behavior in these lines.
• Circulate among the tables to make sure students are following lunchroom rules.
• Confront students about inappropriate behaviors and discipline them with regard to cafeteria rules and standards.
• May have to confront hostile and insubordinate students.
• Communicate observations, trends in student behaviors, concerns and questions to administration.
• Help maintain a clean lunchroom by throwing away food containers left on some tables.

• Monitor students as they enter and pass through the gym foyer during lunch segments.
• Circulate among students in this area to maintain appropriate behaviors.
• Monitor building doorways and student use of these exits.
• Monitor restrooms.
• Supervise the patio area and/or the area at MHS on the north side the building between the pool and remaining building. Maintain appropriate student use of this area.
• Confront students about inappropriate behaviors and discipline them with regard to rules and standards.
• May have to confront hostile and insubordinate students.
• Communicate observations, trends in student behaviors, concerns, and questions to administration.

• Monitoring students entering and leaving the designated area during passing period so it is done in an orderly fashion.
• Enforce building procedures.
• Circulate among the students and manage appropriate behaviors of students in their free period.
• Confront students about inappropriate behaviors and discipline them with regard to designated AEA rules and school standards.
• May have to confront hostile and insubordinate students.
• Communicate observations, trends in student behaviors, concerns, and questions to administrations.
• Complete other duties assigned by an administrator.

• Maintain a quiet study environment in a large study hall setting.
• Take attendance and maintain accurate daily attendance records.
• May work in conjunction with a teacher in supervising up to 90 freshman students.
• May work alone maintaining a smaller study hall of only 25-30 students in another classroom.
• Move about the classroom to…