Job Details

Job Title

Primary Purpose: Under the direct supervision of the Director of Transportation and/or the Transportation Operations Manager, rides buses and helps driver ensure safe and orderly transportation of students with disabilities.

Qualifications Profile: Any combination of education and experience providing the required skill and knowledge for successful performance would be qualifying. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to: High School diploma or equivalent. Preference given to applicants with prior school bus experience.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide direct/indirect supervision of special education students transported by school bus.
• Maintain close communication with the bus driver.
• Develop a cooperative working relationship with other school personnel serving students transported on the school bus.
• Assist in communicating student needs to appropriate school and transportation personnel. Perform related clerical tasks.
• Issue citations/incident reports as appropriate.
• Prepare students reports as appropriate.
• Collaborate with bus driver in students seating assignments.
• Assist bus driver and staff with safe loading and unloading of students.
• Exhibit at all times appropriate role modeling through language, dress, and hygiene expressing appropriate attitudes toward sex, criminal behavior and the use of drugs.
• Work independently; communicate well, relate to children in a positive way; maintain cooperative, proper relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions; maintain a self-management system including schedules and daily logs.
• Physically assist in the lifting and moving of students as is appropriate.

Experience

Additional Duties: Assist guidance, pupil transportation staff or building administration, as needed. Perform any other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.
• Ability to work with a diverse group of individuals.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding students, employees and others.
• Ability to establish a supportive and compassionate relationship with students with special needs.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, staff and others contacted in the course of work.
• Ability to report work orally or in writing to supervisor as required.
• Effective writing and verbal communication skills.

Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards

• Ability to work outdoors for loading and unloading students.
• Ability to sit in a school bus, a desk, conference table or in meeting rooms of various configurations for varying amounts of time.
• Ability to see, read and distinguish colors, with or without vision aides, instructional materials, rules and policies and other printed matter.
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal conversations.
• Ability to write legibly so that others may read and understand.
• Ability to walk on uneven terrain, school grounds and school buses.
• Physical ability to lift and carry from 40-60 pounds, as well as bend, stoop, walk, reach overhead, and stand as many as four hours per day.
• Physical agility to push/pull, squat, twist and turn.

Note: This list of essential functions and physical requirements is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary in accordance with the requirements of the job.