Avon Community School
Avon Community School is hiring: Assistant, Library/Media (29 Hrs) in Avon
Avon Community School, Avon, IN, United States, 46123
Position Type:
Student Support/Instructional Assistants/Asst-Media
Date Posted:
1/8/2025
Location:
Avon High School
Date Available:
01/21/2025
Closing Date:
Until Filled Primary Job Functions: The school library assistant plays a crucial role in helping manage and organize the daily operations of the school library. They support both students and teachers in various ways, ensuring that the library is a welcoming and functional space for learning and reading.
Salary Lane: Hourly pay starting at $18.25.
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Assigned Workday Calendar: 181 days (School Year Days)
Job Status: Part-Time (29 Hours per Week)
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:45am - 2:00pm
Benefits: Part-time positions are eligible for supplemental benefits such as vision, life insurance, disability, etc. Eligible for PERF Retirement. (Not eligible for medical and dental insurance.)
Paid Time Off Benefits: Eligible
Holiday Pay: Not Eligible
Qualifications:
Essential Functions:
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance, vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
Avon Community School Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in admission to its programs, services, or activities, in access to them, in treatment of individuals, or in any aspect of their operations. The Avon Community School Corporation also does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.
This notice is provided as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Questions, complaints, or requests for additional information regarding these laws may be forwarded to the designated compliance coordinator.
Ms. Kristin Williams
Director of Human Resources
7203 E. US Highway 36
Avon, IN 46123
(317) 544-6000
Student Support/Instructional Assistants/Asst-Media
Date Posted:
1/8/2025
Location:
Avon High School
Date Available:
01/21/2025
Closing Date:
Until Filled Primary Job Functions: The school library assistant plays a crucial role in helping manage and organize the daily operations of the school library. They support both students and teachers in various ways, ensuring that the library is a welcoming and functional space for learning and reading.
Salary Lane: Hourly pay starting at $18.25.
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Assigned Workday Calendar: 181 days (School Year Days)
Job Status: Part-Time (29 Hours per Week)
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:45am - 2:00pm
Benefits: Part-time positions are eligible for supplemental benefits such as vision, life insurance, disability, etc. Eligible for PERF Retirement. (Not eligible for medical and dental insurance.)
Paid Time Off Benefits: Eligible
Holiday Pay: Not Eligible
Qualifications:
- Education: High school graduate required. Advanced work beyond high school is preferable.
- Certification: None is required.
- Experience: Must have experience working with students with academic and behavioral challenges.
- Skills and Knowledge: In human relations and the ability to convey routine learning processes to pupils. The ability to listen and to have patience with pupils is essential. The ability to be firm, fair, and consistent with pupils in a disciplinary role is also expected.
- Other: Ability to maintain a positive relationship with pupils, staff, parents, and the community.
Essential Functions:
- Organizing Library Materials:
- Assist in the cataloging of books and other resources
- Ensure the books are properly shelved and easily accessible
- Prepare new library books for circulation, including cataloging, stamping, labeling, and covering as needed
- Assist in the weeding process to remove outdated or damaged books from the library to make room for new books
- Assisting Students and Teachers:
- Assist students in finding books, resources, and other materials for their assignments or reading for pleasure
- providing book recommendations based on their interests
- Assist classes with various research projects, using databases, and citing sources
- Assist in managing the Library Media Students each period, training them on various jobs in the library, monitoring their progress, and helping them with class projects
- Help teachers with research materials for lessons
- Print posters and laminate materials for teachers and staff
- Maintaining the Library Environment:
- Ensure that the library remains tidy and well-organized
- Keep bookshelves neat and ensuring resources are in good condition
- Maintain a warm, safe and inviting environment for students to read, study, research, or enjoy some peaceful down time
- Decorate bulletin boards, display cases and the library for each season
- Create book displays
- Managing Checkouts and Returns:
- Handle the circulation of books and materials, checking in and checking out resources, and keeping track of overdue items
- Manage book holds for students and staff
- Track new enrollments and add them to the Library Resources Schoology Page.
- Track withdrawals and generate reports, emails and letters for outstanding library books
- Technology Support:
- Operate a digital system for cataloging and managing books
- Assist with the operation of library technology
- Assist students with printing needs
- Assist staff in setting up their SWANK motion pictures accounts
- Supporting Library Events and Programs:
- Assist in the planning and organizing reading programs or special events related to literacy
- Plan, promote, and execute makerspace activities for students in the library
- Inventory Management:
- Keep track of the library's inventory, ensuring that books and resources are properly accounted for
- Ordering new materials as needed
- Conduct a physical inventory of furniture, computers, printers etc.
- Participate in Professional Development, as assigned
- Other Duties as assigned by the supervisor
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance, vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
Avon Community School Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in admission to its programs, services, or activities, in access to them, in treatment of individuals, or in any aspect of their operations. The Avon Community School Corporation also does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.
This notice is provided as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Questions, complaints, or requests for additional information regarding these laws may be forwarded to the designated compliance coordinator.
Ms. Kristin Williams
Director of Human Resources
7203 E. US Highway 36
Avon, IN 46123
(317) 544-6000