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Receive and respond to drivers' accidents; drives to accident scenes and conduct internal accident investigations; gather information, take photos and assist students and staff; obtain accident reports from the highway patrol and police agencies. Communicate with school site staff, administrators, parents and outside agencies to exchange information, coordinate activities and resolve issues, concerns and questions regarding transportation services, student behavioral problems and special accommodations for students.

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Description<div><div><div> </div>Role Mission: The Transportation Assistant Manager will assist the Campus Transportation Manager to coordinate and oversee all transportation needs at his/her campus.  The Assistant Manager will work towards learning, adapting and surpassing the goals set forth by the department and includes but not limited to the following:  coordinating school bus routes, scheduling and learn daily operations of buses and bus drivers.  Ensure to follow all federal, state, and local regulations and applicable laws, train and develop the usage of software for mapping, routing, and services that ensure the fleet is running efficiently. What We Offer Compensation: <ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:108%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate ranging between $20.75 for 0 years of experience and $25.50</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:108%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on team performance and goal attainment.</li></ul> Other Benefits:We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Some of the special benefits we offer at IDEA include: <ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">Paid Family Leave: Eligible staff may receive up to 8 weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, based on their tenure with the organization and caregiver designation.</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">Tuition Reimbursement: Staff members may apply for up to​ 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year subject to manager discretion and budget availability.</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health: 5 face-to-face counseling sessions within a year, unlimited 24/7 telephonic counseling, and other work-life services available at no cost.</li></ul> Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses and professional development. IDEA may offer a relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable. What You Bring -- Competencies: <ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Communication skills: Being able to develop the Transportation Assisting Manager (if applicable) to be able to use listening techniques and nonverbal strategies to improve conversations</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Conflict Resolution: Being able to coach the ability to define and identify conflict styles, causes, and methods for handling conflict and improve the department’s or organization’s productivity</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Leadership: Have the ability to delegate and manage a wide variety of skillsets. It is important for supervisors to lead their teams in the most effective way by recognizing where the strengths are, where improvement is needed, and how to properly use the skillsets of each team member</li><li style="color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 51 );font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Time management: Be able to balance a heavy workload and time constraints while managing and delegating other employees and projects is an essential skills</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">Education: GED or High School Diploma</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">Experience: Experience in the operation of large passenger vehicles; or an equivalent combination of experience and training; ability to manage student behavior</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:108%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">License or Certification: Valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with class P (passenger) and S (school bus) endorsements</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:108%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0pt">Completed bus driver safety training course</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Must be over 18 years old</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Pass alcohol and drug tests</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">DOT Physical Examination</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Bilingual Preferred (English/Spanish)</li></ul>What You’ll Do – Accountabilities:  The safe transportation of all students is the #1 priority. This will be achieved by having “0” preventable incidents/accidents.<ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Potential candidates are screened and tested to show they possess or are acquiring excellent skills in operating a school bus</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Drivers are fully trained in Pre/Post Trip inspections</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Culture of safety is placed first in all they do. This means setting the example and holding team accountable for all safety initiatives</li><li style="color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 51 );font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Drivers maintain and carry up-to-date credentials at all times</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Drivers complete all required trainings on time</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Compliance with time schedules and applicable laws, codes, rules and regulations.</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Oversee the daily operations of the dispatch office; monitors two-way radios to effectively address bus problems, lateness and accidents.</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Receive and respond to drivers' accidents; drives to accident scenes and conduct internal accident investigations; gather information, take photos and assist students and staff; obtain accident reports from the highway patrol and police agencies.</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Receive and respond to emergency calls after hours and on weekends.</li></ul>Maintain an efficient operation that does not exceed a Cost Per Mile is <$3.70<ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Develop a schedule for all drivers that creates an environment where drivers are fulfilling their primary role of driving while on the clock</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Continuously audit team’s participation to ensure systems are not being abused. “Inspect what you expect”</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Monitor preventive maintenance to assure costly repairs are avoided</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Serve as a substitute Bus Driver when needed.</li></ul>Create a work environment where team members thrive with a minimum of 85% transportation staff retention<ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Manager will screen employees to ensure only qualified, quality, and dedicated individuals are brought on</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Will ensure employees understand expectations and work conditions before being hired</li></ul>Maintain fleet in safe operating condition while having a 7% savings on maintenance cost over previous year<ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Ensure that maintenance supplies are not over purchased</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Ensure PMs are done in a systematic order</li></ul>Utilize Transfinder to create/update routes at the campus level.<ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 51 );font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">All routes are created and kept up-to-date</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">No route exceeds 10% more than its rosters are rated for</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Driver records are kept up-to-date in Route Finder</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Student Records are kept up-to-date in Route Finder</li></ul>Utilize Synovia to analyze reports<ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Planned vs. Actual Routes</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Know when each bus should be at each stop and see when they arrived</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Generate and analyze reports of the fleet’s overall activity, then drill down into stop-by-stop data to see exactly how each driver and each bus is performing.</li></ul>Provide excellent customer service<ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Communicate with school site staff, administrators, parents and outside agencies to exchange information, coordinate activities and resolve issues, concerns and questions regarding transportation services, student behavioral problems and special accommodations for students.</li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.85pt;padding-left:9.15pt;text-indent:0pt">Communicate with school site staff, administrators, parents and outside agencies to exchange information, coordinate activities and resolve issues, concerns and questions regarding transportation services, student behavioral problems and special accommodations for students.</li></ul>Supervisory Responsibilities: <ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Bus Drivers </li></ul> We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:  <ul style="margin:0pt;padding-left:0pt"><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college  </li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them </li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly </li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes </li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change </li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization </li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes </li><li style="font-family:serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 26.5pt;padding-left:9.5pt;text-indent:0pt">We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students </li></ul> About IDEA Public Schools     At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools.      IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top high schools lists. IDEA serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Florida, Ohio, and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college.       When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.  At IDEA the Staff Culture and Belonging Team uses our Core Values to promote human connection and a culture of integrity, respect, and belonging for all Team and Family members.  Learn more about our Commitment to Core Values here: <a href="https://ideapublicschools.org/our-story/#core-values" rel="nofollow">https://ideapublicschools.org/our-story/#core-values</a> To Apply  Please submit your application online through Jobvite. It’s in your best interest to apply as soon as possible.   <div> </div></div></div>

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