Career Instructional Support Paraprofessional (ONE YEAR ONLY)

Job Title: Career Instructional Support Paraprofessional (SCHOOL YEAR ONLY)
Supervisor: Principal
Terms of Employment: 185 days

Job Summary:Supports the coordination accountability and delivery of supplemental career readiness activities to high school students.

Essential Duties
1. Assists with the implementation of career readiness activities for students under the direction of the classroom teacher(s) and/or service provider(s).
2. Coordinates with classroom teachers service providers and agency representatives regarding the provision classroom and communitybased activities related to career readiness and workbased learning.
3. Assists with individual or small group instruction developed and supervised by the teacher in the assigned class(es) including but not limited to career readiness and/or career readiness assessment preparation.
4. Communicates with employers and agency representatives regarding student placement and performance in careerreadiness and workbased learning activities and experiences.
5. Assists with securing coordinating and monitoring students workbased learning activities.
6. Collects charts and reports students performance data related to workbased learning activities.
7. Completes all required workbased learning documentation and evaluation forms for students participating in workbased learning activities.
8. Collaborate with school counselors classroom teachers and students to ensure alignment between students individual graduation plan postsecondary individualized education plan (when appropriate) and career readiness activities and workbased learning experiences.
9. Attend and participate in professional development activities as directed by school and district administration.
10. Implement Board policies and administrative rules and regulations relating to the school.

Other Duties: Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Principal or other appropriate administrator/supervisor. Job Specifications To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Must meet therequirements for a paraprofessional which includes one of the following:

• Minimum of 60 college credit hours or an Associates Degree from a regionally accredited college/university (Attach a copy of your transcript)
• Paraprofessional certificate (minimum score of 456 on the exam) (Attach a copy of your test scores) or
• Passed all 4 areas of Work Keys. (Attach a copy of all 4 test results)

• Physically capable of frequently lifting or moving up to 40 pounds;
• Sufficiently mobile to ensure the wellbeing and safety of students including but not limited to positioning transferring and restraining;
• Specific vision requirements include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to focus;
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time;
• Manual dexterity for the purpose of using a telephone and data entry;
• Read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids;
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; and
• Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be conducted in workrelated community settings and/or performed while the student is transported to and from school and/or on study trips away from the school.

Pay Grade:103104

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The Special Education Paraprofessional will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by classroom teacher and approved by the Principal or other appropriate administrator. Horry County Schools reserves the right to update revise or change this job description and related duties at any time.