23016-3117 Waiahole Teacher/Tutor/Enrichment (after-school)

Malama 21st Century Community Learning Centers

Kailua/Kalaheo Complex 

Job Position Description

Teacher/Tutor/Enrichment (after-school) - Waiahole Elementary School

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:  Bachelor's Degree preferred. Previous work experience in educational programming or recreation preferred. Additionally the coordinator needs knowledge of the community and experience in collaborating with a variety of community partners. Other characteristics needed include: excellent organizational and problem-solving skills, good interpersonal and communication skills.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

JOB SUMMARY:  Teacher/Tutor/Enrichment, referred to as the “Teacher.”  The Teacher serves as  the instructors for after-school activities as employees of Pacific American Foundation in accordance with the School’s team program plan. 

Instructional Design: The Teacher is responsible for planning, conducting, and measuring the 21st CCLC activities in keeping with the Program’s framework of the cultural themes and academic enrichment objectives.

1. Assists to implement their school’s program plan in keeping with the goal and objectives of the Program.  Supports the planning and design of the plan’s activities.  After-school instruction will promote alignment between afterschool and regular instruction in keeping with the school’s academic initiatives, enhance integration, and alignment with regular school day instruction and with the State’s common core standards.
2. Stays thoroughly familiar with the approved and revised Program Proposal.
3. Assists to troubleshoot, recommend, and implement midcourse corrections to operational problems.
4. Supports the training needs of instructors, parents, community partners and other staff.
5. Supports the school’s involvement in the Program’s annual schedule of joint activities.

Teaching: Provides afterschool instruction as planned by the schools team and student needs.

1. Recruits students to participate in after-school activities and their parents and families to participate in various family engagement activities.
2. Collects and transmits attendance records using the reporting protocols established to ensure timely submittal.  Explains, distributes, and collects necessary Program forms and HIDOE forms from students and their parents for fieldtrips, evaluative surveys, and other participation requirements.
3. Explains, distributes, and collects necessary student and parent forms from the program and the HIDOE for fieldtrips and participation requirements.
4. Administers pre-surveys and post-surveys for evaluative measures of student impact.
5. Program’s School Handbook:  Contributes artifacts documenting activities on a weekly basis including transmits attendance records using the reporting protocols established.

Tutoring: Provides tutoring on both one-to-one and group basis during after-school sessions as referred by teachers and connect their after-school students to the University of Hawai‘i at Mnoa’s Online Learning Academy services. 

Support Innovations:

1. If selected, attends quarterly program advisory meetings.
2. Supports the collection of information for preparing dissemination presentations for meetings and conferences as needed as well as information to the Lead Teacher for their monthly progress report required at the end-of-month.
3. Submits timesheets will be submitted at the end of each pay period.
4. Encourages programmatic improvements to increase student retention and enthusiastic student and parent participation. Plans and conduct parent and family involvement events, 1 per quarter.

Student Recruitment, Retention, and Parent Engagement:

1. Recruits students to participate in afterschool activities according to their needs for support and interests for enrichment.
2. Assures student enrollment records are up to date with parents and students.
3. Recruits students’ parents and families to participate in various family engagement activities.
4. Encourages students to participate in fieldtrips, weekend, intersession, and summer activities.

Community Partnerships: Work in partnership with the school and other partners and if possible, attends and assists with MKMH partnership events.

Student Safety: Troubleshoots operational problems and assists to resolve situations involving student supervision and late pickup of students.  Will assist in finding arrangements for students to get home if stranded in late pickup situations.

Other Duties:

1. Will consider invitation to serve in separate position as summer bridge program teachers.
2. Perform other duties as assigned. 

Work Schedule:  This position supervises students during all program hours.

Program Calendar Period: Student program services to begin as soon as August 1st, and no later than and end no later than May 31st each year.

Weekly hours are scheduled to be 12 hours per week for grades K-5, 15 hours per week for grades 6-8, and 10 hours per week for grades 9-12.

Final Work Schedules:  Teaching schedules will be arranged in collaboration between each school’s team in consultation with the school’s administration in keeping with the school’s afterschool workplan.

Summer Bridge Programs: Scheduled for at least two weeks in summer break, to be scheduled by school teams at all participating schools. Bridge (or transition) programs to be developed for incoming middle and high school students.

Preparation and Planning Time for Afterschool Teachers: Teachers are entitled to use 5% of their paid hours for planning and coordination of their instructional plans.

Outside Employment:  Program Staff will become employees of the Pacific American Foundation, a private educational non-profit organization, and hiring decisions remain the organization’s sole determination.

Background checks and fingerprinting will be required by Pacific American Foundation at the organization’s expense, independent of previous background confirmations.

Equal Opportunity Employer: The Pacific American Foundation is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.  The Pacific American Foundation believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion allows for varied perspectives, generates innovative ideas, and allows growth through collective impact amongst one another.