Inclusion Coordinator ​/ Floater

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REPORTS TO: Program Director

DEPARTMENT: Clinic / COMPASS

JOB TYPE: Limited Part-Time, Non-Exempt

RATE: $22.00 per hour

SCHEDULE: Limited part-time schedule based on program needs, including after school, school-holiday, summer, training, and special-event coverage

OBJECTIVES: Reporting to the Program Director, the Inclusion Coordinator / Floater supports Northside Center's COMPASS After school and Summer Program by helping ensure that all students have equitable access to and meaningful participation in programming, regardless of disability, learning needs, language, medical condition, behavioral needs, or social-emotional support needs.

This limited-schedule position provides targeted inclusion support, coaching to paraprofessionals and direct-service staff, and floating coverage as assigned. The role helps strengthen the program's capacity to support students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), Section 504 Plans, behavioral or developmental needs, medical considerations, and other individualized supports while maintaining a safe, welcoming, trauma-informed, and strengths-based environment.

The Inclusion Coordinator / Floater works collaboratively with the Program Director, Content Specialist, Activity Specialists, Group Leaders, Youth Workers, paraprofessionals, families, school personnel, and Northside clinical or educational staff. This position does not replace licensed clinical, medical, or special-education services and must follow all confidentiality, supervision, and referral requirements.

• Help ensure that students can safely and meaningfully participate in all program activities, including academic enrichment, arts, recreation, meals, field trips, and special events.
• Review available enrollment and support information, as assigned by the Program Director, to identify accommodations, supervision needs, communication needs, triggers, strengths, and strategies that may support successful participation.
• Assist in implementing accommodations and support strategies reflected in IEPs, Section 504 Plans, Behavior Intervention Plans, medical plans, safety plans, and other approved documents within the scope of the after school program.
• Provide targeted one-to-one or small-group support when assigned, while promoting student independence, inclusion, dignity, and connection to peers.
• Support transitions, arrival, dismissal, meals, group changes, field trips, and other high-need times when additional assistance may be required.
• Observe student participation and communicate relevant strengths, concerns, patterns, and support needs to the Program Director promptly and objectively.
• Help ensure activity spaces, materials, routines, and events are accessible and responsive to varied developmental, behavioral, sensory, language, and learning needs.

• Provide practical coaching and modeling to paraprofessionals, Group Leaders, Youth Workers, Activity Specialists, and other direct-service staff on inclusive and strengths-based practices.
• Support staff with differentiated instruction, visual supports, structured choices, transition strategies, sensory supports, positive reinforcement, and developmentally appropriate redirection.
• Model trauma-informed care, restorative practices, relationship-building, co-regulation, de-escalation, and positive behavior supports.
• Reinforce consistency in approved student support strategies across staff, settings, and program activities.
• Help paraprofessionals understand assignments, schedules, boundaries, documentation expectations, and escalation procedures.
• Share observations and coaching needs with the Program Director while respecting supervisory roles and confidentiality requirements.

• Provide floating coverage for staff breaks, absences, transitions, high-need groups, special activities, and other operational needs as assigned.
• Support participant supervision and help maintain required staff-to-student ratios when qualified and assigned to do so.
• Assist with homework support, structured recreation, social-emotional learning, group activities, meals, arrival, dismissal, and field trips.
• Follow the lesson plans and directions of the assigned Group Leader, Activity Specialist, Content Specialist, or Program Director when providing classroom or activity coverage.
• Help maintain safe, organized, inclusive, and welcoming activity spaces.
• Respond flexibly to changing program needs while remaining within the position's training, assigned responsibilities, and supervision structure.

• Collaborate with the Program Director and authorized…