Part-time Special Education Teaching Assistant

St. Mary Academy Bay View seeks a qualified individual to serve as a Special Education Teaching Assistant in our Purcell Promise Program (for Upper School students with moderate learning disabilities) and Center for Learning and Academic Support Services (CLASSroom) three days a week for the 2025-26 school year. The candidate must enjoy being with students who have learning differences and/or need academic support. Candidates must also be committed to an all-girls education and Mercy Special Education Teaching Assistant position is part-time from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for 19.5 hours per week. The candidate has latitude to choose which three days they will work. The person hired for this job must also be willing to become a part of the Bay View community and engage in extracurricular SchoolSt. Mary Academy Bay View is an all-girls independent Mercy Catholic school located in Riverside Rhode Island serving a diverse population of girls from Pre-K through Grade 12. A sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Mercy and Mercy Education St. Mary Academy Bay View fosters academic excellence in an innovative and creative learning environment. For 150 years Bay View has empowered each student to be a confident independent compassionate and socially conscious faith-filled young responsibilities for this position include: Establishing and maintaining a healthy and trusting learning environment and fostering nurturing relationships with students Accompanying Purcell Promise students into regular education classes Being warm compassionate and appropriately caring to each child Assisting teachers with instructional and other direct services to students Assisting and taking direction as needed Being a flexible open-minded and self-driven team member Being dependable punctual and responsible Supporting and serving the schools mission and identity as a Catholic and a Mercy school Collaborating with colleagues and contributing to a positive school environment Supervising and assisting students in the academic resource center Qualifications for this position are: Bachelors degree preferred At least one year of experience working with students with complex learning needsBenefits:St. Mary Academy Bay View offers an Employee Assistance Program tuition remission for daughters as well as paid personal sick and holiday Apply:Visit and download the Non-Teaching Application. Kindly submit application cover letter and resume via email to: or mail to: St. Mary Academy Bay View Attn: Presidents Office 3070 Pawtucket Avenue Riverside RI 02915. An Equal Opportunity Employer St. Mary Academy Bay View commits itself to maintaining a welcoming environment for all people and extends its welcome to those who may be vulnerable to discrimination on the basis of their race color national origin sex religion disability age marital or parental status sexual orientation military status or other legally protected status.