Non Teaching Assistant-Elementary

American Paradigm Schools • Philadelphia, PA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Non Teaching Assistant is a school support position responsible for maintaining discipline, surveillance, and control during students’ non-instructional activities. The role regulates, monitors, and directs student activities inside and outside school buildings and in adjacent areas. It also includes receiving, storing, and issuing school supplies, operating simple office equipment, and completing routine filing tasks. Assignments may come from the lead Non Teaching Assistant, and employees may be assigned or transferred to different schools as needs arise.

The position is based at First Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, within the Student Support department. It is full-time, exempt, and has a 10-month employment duration.

American Paradigm Schools expect all employees to champion the Caring School Community Program. The program builds positive classroom and schoolwide communities and develops students’ social and emotional learning skills, helping create a warm, safe, and disciplined environment.

Requirements

• Education equivalent to completion of the twelfth school grade.
• One year of volunteer or paid experience working with youth, including responsibility for maintaining discipline or security, directing activities, and/or counseling.
• Pass all required background checks.
• Knowledge and abilities in customer and personal service, education and training, computers and electronics, public safety and security, sociology and anthropology, social perceptiveness, monitoring, complex problem solving, and judgment and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Patrol the school building and surrounding areas before, during, and after school hours to maintain an orderly flow of students entering and exiting.
• Inspect locker and play areas, lavatories, and halls for students who are loitering or in unauthorized areas.
• Question students to ensure they are in the proper location.
• Stop smoking and other unauthorized activities on school property.
• Assist teachers with routine disciplinary cases.
• Monitor students during lunch and recess.
• Supervise the late room and complete late cards and other forms to admit students to class.
• Issue locks and lockers to students.
• Receive, store, and issue school supplies; operate simple office equipment; and perform routine filing tasks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED