Part-time Instructional Assistant
Part-time Instructional Assistant wanted for the School of Economics at UMB in Kansas City, MO. The School of Economics is a non-profit organization, focusing on elementary aged students. The mission is to provide high quality, reality-based educational experiences that prepare young people to understand and apply basic marketplace concepts and skills and expose them to business-related careers. The employee will be expected to work up to 3-4 days a week, with the possibility of working more hours with varied days.
Critical Skills:
- Ability to maintain regular and good work attendance and come to work on time.
- Ability to work constructively and cooperatively with others.
- Ability to respond to information requests in a courteous, timely and helpful manner.
- Ability to access, input, and retrieve information from a computer.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of student and staff information.
Physical Requirements:
Ability to go up and down multiple flights of stairs, stand/walk up to four hours a day and the ability to lift 25 lbs. The employee is required to interact with staff, students and volunteers.
Essential Functions:
- Participate in staff trainings
- Demonstrate knowledge of literacy, math and economics
- Exemplary inter-personal skills required
- Create a culture of respect and rapport
- Establish and maintain a culture for learning
- Implement and maintain safe classroom procedures
- Organize space for learning
- Communicate clearly and accurately
- Engage students in learning
- Provide timely feedback to students, teachers, volunteers and staff
- Demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness
- Enjoy working and interacting with students
Job Qualifications:
Associates Degree or equivalent work experience and Bi-Lingual (Spanish) is preferred
Send Cover Letter and Resume to: Jamie.batschke@schoolofecon.org
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