School Culture Assistant (7th - 12th) - Paraprofessional (2024 -2025 School Year)

Crossroads Charter Schools is looking for highly effective, highly qualified and highly motivated individuals to join our organization. Ideal candidates will have experience in urban education and be committed to our four core values: High Expectations, Authentic Learning, Creative Culture, and Educational Equity.

Crossroads Charter Schools organization is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to sex, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other factor prohibited by law.

Job Description: School Culture Assistant (Paraprofessional)

Direct Supervisor: Principal, or designee

School Summary:
At Crossroads Charter Schools, we...

• Understand the significant difference between equity and equality. Every student deserves to receive what he/she needs to succeed (equity), not that every student receives the same amount of resources, instruction, attention, etc. (equality).
• Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
• Interrupt the "school to prison pipeline" - policies and practices that are directly and indirectly pushing the most at-risk students out of school and on a pathway to the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
• Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
• Build the capacity of diverse teams that are more reflective of our students.
• Nurture an open, collaborative, and trusting environment because the work is enormous, deeply personal, emotional and often difficult.
• Engage in on-going job-embedded professional development through co-teaching and co-planning

Position Summary:

The primary responsibilities are to provide continuous safety support to the overall educational environment by monitoring attendance and hallways. The School Culture Assistant tracks and analyzes data in order to identify attendance and supervision trends. In addition, the School Culture Assistant collaborates with the building behavior and admin team to implement systems and student supports. Also, the School Culture Assistant works with the District Safety Manager/Dean of Students to monitor student behavior and navigate safety situations. The School Culture Assistant collaborates with staff to accommodate special needs, diversity and educational backgrounds of the students; and overcome challenges constructively. The School Culture Assistant is a hardworking, collaborative and enthusiastic professional.

All applicants must apply on the Crossroads website at: https://www.crossroadsschoolskc.org/careers

Position Responsibilities:

• Help create and sustain a positive and safe learning environment for all students.
• Monitors attendance at the beginning of each class period
• Communicates with appropriate team members and families regarding absence anomalies
• Monitors hallways, bathrooms, and stairwells throughout the school day to ensure student safety and maximize learning time
• Communicates safety concerns with building admin and District Safety Manager proactively to maintain a safe environment
• Collect, analyze, and disseminate hallway data with social emotional and admin team
• Monitor arrival and dismissal procedures.
• All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established as part of the annual performance planning process or as the result of organizational planning.

Expected Salary - One of your application questions will ask you to indicate your expected salary. To respond to the question, please review the 10-month Compensation plan to indicate your expected salary

Skills and Qualifications:

• Two years of relevant professional work experience with children preferred.
• Strong familiarity with education and child welfare policies and best practices and a motivation to continue expanding that knowledge base.
• Excellent organizational skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities simultaneously.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and an ability to keep multiple stakeholder groups, including parents, teachers, staff, volunteers and partners, informed of critical issues, activities and schedules.
• An ability and enthusiasm for promoting the school and its mission to a broad and diverse group of people.
• Excellent teamwork skills and an ability to collaborate closely with colleagues and partners to identify challenges and to design and implement solutions.
• Strong computer skills; must be proficient in the use of email, the internet, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Donor Perfect and Google Apps and be able to apply these skills towards the necessary organization, documentation and communication requirements of this position.
• Excellent work ethic, positive attitude and exceptional people skills
• Must pass extensive background check

Key Working Relationships in Addition to Supervisor:

Teachers, Students, Parents, Volunteers, Office Staff, Support Staff, Assistant Principals, Principals, District Leadership Team, Central Office Team

Both federal and state law requires all public school personnel to submit to and pass a criminal background check prior to employment by the school. Crossroads Charter Schools is required by law to exclude from employment any person who has pleaded to or been found guilty of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of the State of Missouri, any other State of the United States or any other country, whether or not a sentence is or was imposed.

Please be advised that Crossroads Charter Schools does not seek information related to the conviction of crimes unrelated to those described in this question. Your conviction of a crime not otherwise listed above is not an automatic disqualification from employment consideration. The school will consider the nature of the offense and the relationship between the offense and the position for which you are applying.