Paraeducator and Transition Services Coach

Para educator and Transition Services Coach

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Schedule and Compensation

Full‑time, 165 scheduled working days during the school year, 8 hours per day on a 4‑day school week (Tuesday‑Friday).

Salary range:
Lane C, Step 3 (50% – Para educator – SSN) and Lane F, Step 1 (50% – Transition Services Coach).

• Significant Support Needs Para educator (2 days per week): minimum $17.30 per hour, salary dependent on experience.
• Transition Services Coach (2 days per week): minimum $20.47 per hour, salary dependent on experience.

Benefits

Medical, Vision, Dental, Life, A&D, FSA, PTO, Voluntary Supplemental Plans, employer‑paid health insurance, optional dental and vision insurance, supplemental life insurance, flexible spending plans, and retirement savings plans.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Tasks – Significant Support Needs Para educator

• Assist assigned teachers with instructional and physical student support.
• Deliver instructional activities according to each student’s Individual Education Plan (IEP).
• Assist with design and implementation of learning environments, assistive technologies, and multi‑sensory materials.
• Support students’ integration into general‑education classrooms and communicate student needs to general‑education teachers.
• Impart life skills such as self‑hygiene and social/emotional skills.
• Supervise and facilitate sensory and movement rest periods between academic activities.
• Assist teachers in implementing positive behavior plans and systems for individual students.
• Provide student oversight during out‑of‑classroom activities, including arrivals, departures, and other assigned responsibilities.
• Communicate with other paraprofessionals and staff to coordinate student movements, schedules, and locations.
• Provide personal hygienic needs, including medication dispensing, meal preparation, feeding, or toileting/diapering, while maintaining HIPAA confidentiality and student dignity.
• Collect and review progress on students’ work toward IEP goals/objectives, working with SPED teachers regularly to ensure compliance.

Job Tasks – Transition Services Coach

• Coordinate vocational tasks at job‑training sites, provide job coaching and follow‑up support.
• Assist employers with supporting students’ rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
• Model and instruct effective vocational, interpersonal, consumer, mobility, domestic, and safety skills.
• Train students in living skills, providing cues, opportunities for problem‑solving, consistent behavior management, and planning for decreased supervision.
• Provide mobility training to enable student access to public spaces and transportation.
• Assist students with alternative communication systems and adaptive equipment or technology.
• Monitor and evaluate students’ health and personal needs through data collection.
• Perform clerical duties and act as liaison between vocational placements and IEP teams.

Other Duties

detailed above; additional duties may be assigned in the future.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Hold an Associate’s degree or higher.
• Demonstrated aptitude for the work to be performed.
• Alternative qualifications may be considered by the Board if appropriate and acceptable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Successfully pass the Work Keys test (via Workforce Center) for Reading, Mathematics, and Business Writing.

Reports To

School Principal, Classroom Teachers, and SPED Director.

Evangelical Confidentiality and Policies

All staff must observe district confidentiality policies. Relevant policies are available on the district’s website.

Equal Opportunity Employer

RE‑1 Valley School District is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. The policy applies to all employment practices, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, and compensation. Hiring decisions are made solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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