Residential Assistant; Part Time​/DOE Mt Edgecumbe HS - Sitka, AK

Job Description

NANA Management Services is seeking dedicated and caring individuals to serve as Residential Assistants at Mount Edgecumbe High School. In this crucial role, you will build strong relationships with each student, ensuring their health and safety through active supervision and the consistent implementation of school policies. You will guide, mentor, and support students in becoming successful members of the MEHS community and responsible citizens.

Operating in a technologically rich environment, you will utilize school‐provided technology for communication and contribute to a positive and structured residential experience.

• Build and establish healthy, caring relationships with each student.
• Supervise students for purposes of health and safety, including implementation of the school’s Code of Conduct, health and safety rules, and student participation in maintaining a clean, healthy physical environment.
• Guide, mentor, and help students become successful learners of the MEHS community and responsible citizens, providing direct supervision and serving as a positive role model.
• When possible, supervise an activity when most students are not in the dorms and are attending activities in the gym upon assignment of the Residential Principal.
• Treat MEHS day students the same as all other residential students.
• Provide general supervision to the student body in the residential halls or wherever students are located on campus, as applicable, coordinating with the Contract Supervisor.
• Swing shift RAs must plan and carry out at least one recreational activity each week that involves at least five students.
• Assist in solving problems or issues that occur in students’ daily responsibilities, with active collaboration from staff.
• Operate within a technologically rich working environment and must use school‑provided technology to communicate.
• Sort, post, and distribute mail lists and mail.
• Provide care for students who are in a dorm room due to illness or injury when not in sick bay, with additional staffing as needed.
• Transport students to the ER as needed between 1:00 am and 8:00 am, ensuring the child is checked in with medical staff before leaving; the state will provide required supervision if more students require transport than contractor staff available.
• Assist with the snack program during the evening study period in the dorms (snack purchased by the food service vendor).
• Remove snow and ice from dormitory stairways, ramps, and entrances between 1:00 am and 6:00 am on weekdays and whenever needed on weekends.
• Build an effective team of residential professionals; RA’s with unique skills such as emergency medical training, specialized academic knowledge, knowledge of Alaska Native cultures, or recreation/activity skills are highly desirable.

• Must have a high school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Must have a strong desire to engage high school students in meaningful, fun, social, and team‑building activities such as outdoor recreation, leadership development, arts, culturally relevant programming, and more.
• CPR/First Aid certified or able to obtain certification prior to start date.
• Must be able to speak, write, read, and understand English.
• Basic proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite applications:
  Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

• Preferred one (1) year experience in a school setting.
• Preferred one (1) year experience as a camp counselor.
• A valid driver’s license and an acceptable driving record for the past three (3) years to be eligible under NMS’s vehicle insurance policy.

Weather:
Indoors and outdoors, frequently exposed to outdoor weather conditions.

Noise level:
Moderate to loud.

Environment will vary based on the facility assigned to.

Physical requirements:

Employee is required to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Frequently must sit, stand, walk, use hands/fingers to handle or feel, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk/hear, see, taste/smell, and carry weight/lift.

NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. and its subsidiaries are equal employment opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, gender‑identity and sexual orientation), age, disability, genetic information, veteran protected status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. NANA grants employment preference to shareholders of NANA, their spouses and descendants to the extent allowed by law.

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