Multilingual Instructional Aide - .80 FTE JobID: 2639

Position Type:

Support Staff/ESL/ELL Instructional Aide

Date Posted:

5/30/2024

Location:

Hinsdale South High School

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Job Title: Multilingual Instructional Aide

Calendar Work Days: 10 Months

Supervisor: Multilingual Department Chair

Status: Non Exempt - HTHSSSA

Position Summary:

The Multilingual paraprofessional's primary responsibility is to provide assistance for identified ML students in areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking in ML and general education classes. This assistance is focused on helping multilingual students access the general education curriculum and improving the English language acquisition of students whose first language is not English.   

Quailifications/Skills:

• ELS (PARA) license
  
• Ability to communicate in Spanish, Arabic or Ukrainian preferred
  
• Basic technology skills to assist students required
  
• Good verbal communication skills required
  
• Ability to organize information and problem solve complex situations
  
• Strong interpersonal skills
  
• Experience with high school students preferred
  
• Presents a professional image and interacts professionally with faculty, staff, students and community
  

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PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit and talk or hear. The employee is required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The employee must be able to push and pull a student in a wheelchair and assist students with daily living activities. The employee must be able to climb stairs to enter a bus or to attend off-site field trips with students. The employee must be able to handle medical and PPE supplies including latex. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, such as to read type or hand written material. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet and indoors but can be loud on occasion as consistent with a large high school and sometimes will be outdoors for field trips or PE activities. The employee is continuously interacting with students and staff.

The information contained in this posting is for compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. The individuals currently holding this position perform additional duties and additional duties may be assigned.

Notice of Nondiscrimination:

The District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

For further information on notice of non-discrimination, visit https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr?field_state_value=652 for the address and phone number of the office that serves your area, or call 1-800-421-3481.