Township High School District 113 Position Description
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Position Title: Instructional Assistant
Tier I
Department: College & Career
Resource Center (CCRC)
Building: Deerfield High School
Reports To: College Counselors and
Counseling Chair
Hours: 7 1/2 Hours/Day/183
Days/Total = 1372.5 Hours
Application Deadline: Open
until filled
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SUMMARY:
Deerfield High School has a job
opening for a College & Career Resource Center (CCRC) Specialist to work
alongside the College Counselors in the College & Career Resource
Center. This position is perfect for someone interested in going back to
school to attain school counseling certification. It is an hourly, ten-month position
that spans the traditional school day so it affords the person the opportunity
to take evening and summer classes while maintaining full-time
employment.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The CCRC Specialist will perform a
variety of duties, including but not limited to overseeing the Resource Center,
assisting students with applications/essays, maintaining Naviance (database) as
well as Parchment (transcript program) and
managing about 20 local scholarships. Excellent communication,
technological, and organizational skills and a genuine desire to work with
students are required.
REQUIRED
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:
- Ability to work with
students and adults in a positive manner.
- Ability to comprehend and
follow written and verbal instructions.
- Possess common sense,
problem-solving skills and reasoning ability to appropriately deal with
supervisory situations.
- Ability to build and
maintain relationships with colleagues that supports a cooperative work
environment.
- Ability to set goals and
establish methods for achieving these goals.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Mathematical and analytical skills appropriate for the position.
- The ability to understand social and cultural diversity.
- Appropriate technological skills coupled with the willingness to
learn required skills.
- The ability to maintain appropriate confidentiality of information.
QUALIFICATION
REQUIREMENTS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able
to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill,
and/or ability required. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform
the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or
EXPERIENCE:
Minimum of 30 hours of college credit required. Some experience with counseling or college admissions
preferred.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The physical demands described here are representative of
those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential
functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform
the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
regularly required to stand, walk, sit, bend, write, type, speak, and
listen. In addition the employee may
occasionally be required to bend, twist, reach and climb. Specific vision abilities required by this
job include close, peripheral and distant vision. Ability to work in office environment,
sitting, standing, light lifting, filing, operate office machines and computer,
communicate with staff and others.
Occasional lifting, otherwise non-demanding office activities.
The noise level in the work environment ranges from
quiet/moderate to loud. The employee is
frequently required to interact with the other staff. The employee is directly responsible for the
safety and well-being and of students.
The statements in this job description are intended to
describe the general nature and level of the work to be performed by (an)
individual(s) assigned to this position.
They are not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities
related to the position. This job description
will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with
business necessity and School Board Policy and procedures. Essential and marginal job functions are
subject to modification.
The information
contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with
Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed
for this position. Additional duties are
performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional
duties may be assigned.
