Status: Part-time, nonexempt
Pay rate: $25 per hour
Location: Lopez Island, WA
General work hours: 2 hours per student per week (dependent on number of clients), not to exceed 10 hours per week total.
Time and dates will be scheduled and arranged with clients and tutor’s availability.
Reports to: Program Manager
Position will be posted for 10 days and lasts from hire date until end date of 12/20/2024. send a resume and cover letter to Align@lifrc.org by 10/6/24.
General: Parapros tutoring for preschool through high school aged children who have an IEP, 504. Referrals from Parents, Lopez Island School, Lopez Children’s Center. Advocates of Lopez Island Gathering for Neurodiversity will assign students with tutors. Contractors must arrange time and meeting location directly with the client’s parents. All referrals and scheduled meeting plans and locations must be approved by ALIGN.
Location requirements: Library, school or another agreed upon public meeting location approved by ALIGN.
Planning
Plan and provide weekly parapro tutoring supports customized for the client’s school subjects and needs determined by client’s parent or teacher, with the ability to organize, perform and evaluate a comprehensively designed individualized program of varied activities with a minimum of supervision.
Tutoring goals and subjects will be pre-determined by parent or teacher.
Tutors will need to record and report weekly to the assigned supervisor.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge and background in working with neurodivergent and disabled youth and able to assist in school subjects.
Required:
- Will be required to receive ALIGN approved training prior to assignments.
- Committed to the LIFRC mission, vision and values listed on the next page.
- Knowledge & commitment to principles of confidentiality.
- Creative, imaginative, fun approach to support and learning.
- Ability to be flexible and consistent.
- Desire to make a connection with students and take a personal interest in their literary growth.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Effective written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated record of personal safety and ability to promote safety in the workplace.
- Satisfactory background check.
Equity and Inclusion
- Demonstrate the initiative to learn and enhance skills promoting anti-racism, cultural competency, and understanding oppression and its impact
- Participate in intentional learning efforts, including events relating to understanding institutional racism and building cultural competency
Community Expectations
- Model respectful communication and foster cooperative relationships
- Commit to the mission and values of LIFRC
Essential Physical Skills
These physical demands represent the requirements for an employee to perform the job’s essential functions successfully. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to carry a box of curriculum materials across the school to and from their designated space daily. The employee will need to safely escort their student to and from their designated space daily as well.
Lopez Island Family Resource Center
The Mission of the Lopez Island Family Resource Center is to provide resources and guidance necessary to meet the basic needs of the entire community. Building on this foundation of well-being, we also provide educational and community engagement programs and advocate for a more just and equitable community.
We envision the Lopez Island community as a family in which each person enjoys a positive, meaningful quality of life, knowing our own and our neighbors’ basic needs are met. We are committed to lifelong growth and self-improvement in an environment of respect, kindness, and compassion.
Our core values:
- We believe in an inclusive and just community with opportunity for self-improvement for all.
- We focus on the well-being of our clients.
- We maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
- We meet people where they are.
- We treat our clients with dignity and respect.
- We keep our clients’ information confidential.
- We use best practices.
- We strengthen our community by connecting people and organizations.
- We collaborate among staff and with other individuals and organizations.
- We are a team of self-empowered individuals.
- We are active listeners and have candid, honest, and positive communication.
- We accept input from others.
- We act with integrity and responsibility.
- We continuously evaluate and improve.
- We adapt to the changing needs of our clients and the community.