The Personal Care Assistant is assigned specifically to a student or group of students who regularly need one on one assistance to maintain appropriate and equitable participation in the school setting. Work is performed under the close supervision of the school principal, teacher/case manager, and nurse.
High School Personal Care Assistant
Community Liaison
Position Type: Equity-Nonlicensed
Location: Educational Service Center
Closing Date: Until Filled
Job Summary: Under the direction of the Family and Community Engagement Coordinator, the Community Liaison enhances student learning by helping students, parents, teachers, administrators, and other school staff to center racial equity and cultural relevancy into student engagement, parent engagement, community engagement, and staff development. Furthermore, to build and maintain supportive relationships that strengthen student and family connections to school and support the elimination of racial disparities, racial isolation, and to achieve equitable student achievement.
Responsibilities and tasks include:
Providing an ongoing marketing and promotion plan and public information program aimed at continuously informing internal and external stakeholders about Family and Community Engagement programs and services.
Managing and compiling data regarding Family and Community Engagement outreach activities; developing recommendations for program goals and improvement; assisting in preparation of periodic reports.
Scheduling, planning and conducting meetings with stakeholders for the purpose of coordinating program activities and initiatives.
Identifying and interfacing with local community resources and agencies that work closely with bipoc communities.
Building connections with the diverse communities and assisting families with participation in Family and Community Engagement programs.
Developing relationships between the School District, Family and Community Engagement department, and community resources.
Planning, developing and implementing informational literature, brochures, television, radio, and website information to develop family and community awareness about Family and Community Engagement initiatives.
Maintaining a planned and systematic program of communications and accountability aimed at continuously informing external and internal stakeholders of Family and Community Engagement plans and activities.
Working cooperatively with and collaborating with various community and school agencies, parental and neighborhood groups in the development of Family and Community Engagement outreach initiatives.
Maintain liaison with district, state, and community committees and representatives in the development and implementation of Family and Community Engagement outreach projects and initiatives.
Assist site administrators in providing a climate that supports and welcomes students and families to the School District and helps to raise the awareness level of the district as a whole and Family and Community Engagement services.
Perform other comparable duties of a like or similar nature as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications Include: Bachelor’s degree or 2 year college and 3-5 years related experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities include:
Communicating verbally
Written communication, including word processing and e-mail.
Use of spreadsheet and database computer program applications.
Ability to generate enthusiasm, create effective teams, and continually motivate staff.
Detailed organization and ability to work to work on several projects simultaneously.
Creating collaboration among groups of internal and external groups.
Customer service skills.
Organizational communication through social media.
Synthesizing information.
Taking initiative and working independently.
Salary: $52,680 – $62,183 annually. View salary grid on Page 2, Section 1 of the Salaried Professional’s contract
Schedule: Full-time, School year, 186 days
Bargaining Unit: Salaried Professionals
Osseo Area Schools offers:
Meaningful and impactful work
Opportunities to grow professionally
A variety of benefits
Mentorship programs for teachers and educational support professionals
Summer opportunities
and more
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Osseo Area School District ISD 279 is an Equal Opportunity, and veteran-friendly employer. Osseo Area School District ISD 279 ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of race, creed, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability. Osseo Area School District is committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of the district and strongly encourages persons to apply who can strengthen our diversity. For more information, view the District’s Equal Opportunity and Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment and Violence Policy.
Veteran’s Preference: If you are an eligible veteran, please submit a legible copy of your DD214 with your application.
Accommodation: If you have a disability that requires an accommodation during the selection process, please email Human Resources at [email protected] or call 763-391-7007.
Background Check Upon Conditional Offer: Background checks are conducted upon receiving a conditional offer. Employees must complete a background check and are responsible for the background fee. A passing background is required. Criminal convictions are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Follow these steps to apply and submit an application online by:
Go to www.district279.org/careers
Click “View all job openings”
Choose job category or lookup position on the search bar
Review job description
Click on red “Apply” button top right corner next to JobID
Follow application instructions
When prompted for Referral Source, please select where you first saw Osseo Area Schools career opportunities. (Example: Facebook, LinkedIn, MinnesotaJobs, Handshake, MNASA, etc.)
AESP – Class IV-A – Resource Manager Administrative Assistant
Position Type: Administrative Assistant/Clerical/Resource Manager
Location: Basswood Elementary, Maple Grove, MN 55311
Closing Date: Until Filled
Job Summary: To inspire and prepare each and every scholar with the confidence, courage and competence to achieve their dreams; contribute to community; and engage in a lifetime of learning by providing specialized clerical and technical duties related to the assignment or placement, as well as related responsibilities requiring creative solutions to specialized site/department needs. Answer correspondence and assemble highly confidential and sensitive information. Interact with a diverse group of external customers as well as internal contacts at all levels of the organization. Independent judgment is required to plan, prioritize, and organize and carry out a diversified workload, and make recommendations for changes in office practices or procedures.
Responsibilities and tasks include:
Customer Service:
Delivering customer service that embodies the District mission.
Assisting site/department leaders with communications.
Acting as a liaison between parent(s), student(s), guardian(s), community and site/department staff.
Communicating and coordinating services with internal and external vendors to ensure adequate service to our school system.
General Office:
Delivering support for multiple site, departmental and/or program initiatives.
Performing general office duties such as typing, filing, copying, faxing.
Scheduling and preparing materials, rooms and sites for meetings, events and/or conferences.
Creating, updating and maintaining handbooks and manuals.
Ordering supplies and tracking inventory (general office and equipment).
Verifying and processing vendor invoices.
Processing monetary deposits and/or refunds as needed.
Attending meetings and recording meeting minutes as requested.
Developing and distributing communications to site/department, and internal and/or external vendors.
Maintaining site, department and/or supervisor’s calendar.
Records:
Scanning and/or retrieving information located on the system’s network.
Creating and/or entering data into spreadsheets and/or databases.
Preparing and maintaining records (staff and student records).Maintaining and updating records for site/department.
Creating, updating and maintaining handbooks and manuals.
Coordinating name badge renewal for site/department.
Organizational Management:
Providing work direction for special projects/assignments.
Assisting with staffing database input.
Maintaining records on staff absences.
Assisting with the interviewing process with applicants and supervisors.
Health and Safety:
Assisting and coordinating with Human Resources the access rights to site/building systems.
Maintaining and distributing emergency call lists.
Issuing leave/appointment passes/partial absence slips to students.
Maintaining a safe environment for students.
Supervising students at lunch and recess as needed.
Facilitating communication between site/department leaders/staff to alert about emergency situations.
Coordinating and monitoring drills and evacuations.
Organizing the bus safety program
Performing other comparable duties of a like or similar nature as assigned.
Minimum qualifications include: High school diploma or GED.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities include:
Understanding of data entry concepts.
Knowledge of spreadsheet and database management software and word processing skills.
Fundamentals of general office and general administrative procedures and operational requirements.
Understanding of office equipment and typical productivity software, databases or customized systems/applications.
Knowledge of basic record retention, record/file/database maintenance requirements.
Understanding of data privacy requirements, laws and rules as it pertains to job assignments.
Skilled in:
The attributes of an efficacious learner: resourceful, self-directed, responsible, problem solver and skilled communicator.
The ability to collaboratively solve problems.
The ability to work in an organized, efficient, and process-oriented manner.
The ability to apply and follow record keeping procedures and protocols to maintain and process data.
The ability to perform work assignments requiring attention to detail, confidentiality, precision and accuracy in accordance with set deadlines.
The ability to perform assigned functions with minimal direction in accordance with established set departmental operations.
Salary: View salary grid on Page 5, Section 1, and Classification IVA, Pages 6 – 7, Section 3 of the Administrative Education Support Professionals (AESPs) contract
Work schedule: 8 hrs/day, 219 days per year
Bargaining unit: Administrative Education Support Professionals (AESPs)
Desired start date: ASAP
Osseo Area Schools offers:
Meaningful and impactful work
Opportunities to grow professionally
A variety of benefits
Summer opportunities
and more
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Osseo Area School District ISD 279 is an Equal Opportunity, and veteran-friendly employer. Osseo Area School District ISD 279 ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of race, creed, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability. Osseo Area School District is committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of the district and strongly encourages persons to apply who can strengthen our diversity. For more information, view the District’s Equal Opportunity and Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment and Violence Policy.
Veteran’s Preference: If you are an eligible veteran, please submit a legible copy of your DD214 with your application.
Accommodation: If you have a disability that requires an accommodation during the selection process, please email Human Resources at [email protected] or call 763-391-7007. Background Check Upon Conditional Offer: Background checks are conducted upon receiving a conditional offer. Employees must complete a background check and are responsible for the background fee. A passing background is required. Criminal convictions are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Follow these steps to apply and submit an application online by:
Go to www.district279.org/careers
Click “View all job openings”
Choose job category or lookup position on the search bar
Review job description
Click on red “Apply” button top right corner next to JobID
Follow application instructions
When prompted for Referral Source, please select where you first saw Osseo Area Schools career opportunities. (Example: Facebook, LinkedIn, MinnesotaJobs, Handshake, MNASA, etc.)
Vision Impaired Teacher 1.0 FTE
The Teacher develops material and lesson plans, conducts classroom instruction and evaluates and assess student performance. The incumbent meets with parents, interprets student progress, and informs parents/guardians about student strengths, weaknesses, and progress.
Math Teacher
Full time (1.0FTE) Mathematics teaching position is available beginning the 2024-25 school year at Forest Lake Area Middle School to teach students in grades 7-8.
Special Education Teacher
Special Education Teacher
This position will support our setting IV program located in Chisago Lakes – SOAR (Skill-building Opportunities for Academic Resiliency)
Position Purpose:
The special education teacher develops materials and lesson plans, conducts classroom instruction and evaluates and assesses both instructional materials and student performance. The teacher meets with parents, interprets student progress and informs parents/guardians about student strengths, weaknesses and/or progress. Additionally, the special education teacher facilitates Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and Evaluation Summary Report (ESR) meetings and completes special education paperwork as determined by state and local due process requirements.
Performance Responsibilities:
1. Plans instruction and other student support activities, including the establishment of overall goals and priorities, unit plans, classroom activities, (i.e. laboratory experiments, media presentations, etc.) and daily lesson plans, as applicable to the teacher’s particular assignment. Such plans should be consistent with the district/department goals and objectives; should consider the needs and abilities of the students; and should incorporate basic components of lesson design, as appropriate. Reviews, selects and modifies materials and resources consistent with instructional objectives and students’ participation.
2. Provides instruction to students in a manner which incorporates essential elements of instruction; i.e. teaching to specific objectives, teaching at appropriate levels of difficulty, including methods of extending students’ thinking, uses techniques to monitor student progress and adjusts instruction accordingly, and correctly employs various principles of learning.
3. Establishes and maintains student control/discipline in the classroom, on school premises, and/or in school activities by communicating expectations for appropriate behavior. Provides structure and consistency and encourages student responsibility, cooperation and mutual respect in a manner consistent with district policies and procedures and legal requirements.
4. Participates in parent/teacher conferences. Interprets student strengths, weaknesses and/or problems that the student may be experiencing in the classroom.
5. Collaborates with other professional staff regarding the needs of students, communicating accurately, preserving confidentiality of information and sharing approaches to instructional units and new teaching technologies or procedures available.
6. Develops student tests and evaluates results. Determines student grades for instructional units and reports grades to parents.
7. Develops and maintains adequate knowledge of the subject(s) taught or support services rendered, and demonstrates an understanding of how the subject(s) or support services fit into the overall district and department philosophy, objectives and curriculum.
8. Pursues professional development activities to broaden and deepen knowledge of content and teaching skills and continually identifies professional needs and develops strategies to meet these needs.
9. Collaborates with other professionals regarding the formulation of building site procedures.
10. Facilitates IEP and ESR meetings as determined by state and local due process requirements.
11. Completes all special education paperwork in compliance with state and local due process requirements.
12. Performs related work as apparent or assigned.