Paraeducator and Transition Services Coach

Frontline Applicant Tracking - RE-1 Valley Schools

Para educator and Transition Services Coach

• Position Type:
  Support Staff/ Para educator- SPED Significant Needs and Transition
• Date Posted: 5/18/2026
• Location:
  
  Multiple Locations
• Date Available:
  
  08/11/2026

Full‑time, 165 scheduled working days during school year, 8 hours/day, 4-day school week (Tuesday‑Friday)

Salary range:
Lane C, Step 3 - 50% (Para educator - SSN),
Lane F, Step 1 - 50% (Transition Services Coach) (1 timecard required per position)

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

• 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

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

• Hold an Associates or higher degree
• Demonstrated aptitude for the work to be performed
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable

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

Reports To: School Principal, Classroom Teachers and SPED Director

• Assist assigned teachers with instructional and physical student support
• Deliver instructional activities according to individual students’ Individual Education Plans (IEP) and as assigned and developed by certified/licensed staff, including design and implementation of an appropriate learning environment with assistive technologies and multi‑sensory materials
• Provide instructional support to help students integrate into general education classrooms, communicate with general education teachers regarding student needs, and impart life skills such as self‑hygiene and social/emotional skills
• Supervise and facilitate sensory and movement rest periods between academic activities to increase student engagement
• Assist the teacher in implementing positive behavior plans and systems appropriate to the individual student
• Provide student oversight and supervision during out‑of‑classroom activities, including arrivals, departures, outside breaks, passing periods, and other activities as assigned by the supervising teacher
• Communicate with other paraprofessionals and staff to track student movements, schedules, and locations; may be requested to travel with a student during transportation to and from school/home
• Serve students to provide personal hygienic needs; expectations include maintaining HIPAA confidentiality and personal dignity, and may include dispensing medications, preparing meals, feeding, or toileting/diapering
• Collect and review progress on students’ work toward IEP goals/objectives with SPED teachers on a regular basis to ensure IEP compliance and student needs are met

• Coordinate vocational tasks at job training sites, provide job coaching and follow‑up support, assist employers with supporting student rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), model and instruct effective vocational, interpersonal, consumer, mobility, domestic, and safety skills, train students in positive living skills, provide consistent behavior management intervention, and plan for progressive reduction of supervision
• Model and instruct effective occupational, interpersonal, consumer, mobility, domestic, and safety skills
• Implement vocational placements: provide job coaching and transportation
• Assist students with alternative communication systems and/or adaptive equipment/technology
• Monitor and evaluate students’ health and personal needs by collecting data
• Perform clerical duties and act as a…