Communication Skills, Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Physical Demands, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Special Education, Special Needs, Team Player, Training/Teaching
Special Educational Assistant - IRR JobID: 4020
Position Type:
Support Staff/Special Education Assistant
Date Posted:
6/5/2026
Location:
Great Lakes Elementary School
Date Available:
08/27/2026
Closing Date:
Until filled
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Notice of Support Staff Posting
Position: Special Educational Assistant - IRR Posting # 4020
Posting Dates: June 5, 2026 Until Filled
Reports To: Principal
Beginning: August 27, 2026
Hours: 35 hours per week
8:15AM 3:45PM
School year/Part-time
Qualifications:
- CPI training preferred
- Good communication/collaboration skills
- Must meet Federal Standards of Every Student Succeeds Act requirement of
- 60 credit hours OR Associates Degree OR pass ETS parapro assessment
Job Responsibilities:
- Assistance with students with special needs
- Knowledge of behavioral strategies
- Work closely with teachers to collaborate on accommodations and IEP requirements
- Assist classroom teacher with individual's instruction in core subjects
- Successfully work in a team environment
- Other duties as assigned
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
- Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable in-person attendance.