Avon Community School Corporation is hiring: Assistant, Media (29 Hrs) in Avon

Position Type:
Student Support/Instructional Assistants/Asst-Media

Date Posted:
2/11/2025

Location:
Avon Intermediate School East

Date Available:
02/24/2025

Closing Date:
Until FilledPrimary Job Functions: The school media 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: ASST - 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

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: A high school education is required. Advanced training is preferred.
• Certification: None is required, but certification through training and professional associations is desirable.
• Experience: None is required, but office experience and knowledge of library science is preferred.
• Skills and Knowledge: Human relations, clerical practices, machine operation, Microsoft Works and data processing required.
• Other: Ability to maintain a positive relationship with pupils, staff, parents, and the community.

Essential Functions:

• Student Assistance
  • Helping students locate information.
  • Work with students regarding their overdue materials.
  • Copy reference material for reports.
  • Library supervision.
  • Circulation of materials.
  • Sign students in and out of media center.
  • Train student aides and parent volunteers.
• Processing required includes catalog cards, letters, forms, purchase orders.
• Process new books, software and equipment.
• Check in weekly/monthly periodicals.
• Repair damaged books and A-V materials and equipment. Replace bulbs in A-V equipment, maintain copier, and keep an accurate count of number of copies run during the school year.
• Computer skills:
  • Word processing, electronic cataloging, computer programs, media newsletters, and lessons.
  • Follett Circulation/Catalog Program: this includes student information, needed bibliographies (Category Reports) for special projects, and issue an overdue list once a week.
  • Create bibliographies of cataloged AV software and distribute to teachers.
  • Maintain inventory of equipment, repairs and teacher check-out of equipment.
  • Maintain monthly/yearly circulation's statistics.
  • Maintain computer reading programs.
  • Have knowledge of Daily Bulletin Board if Data Entry Secretary is absent.
  • Generate computer lists/reports as needed.
• Media Retrieval: Assist teachers when needed with programming media events. At the end of the school day, load and unload tapes, laser discs in retrieval racks. Print schedule of daily events.
• Input data into Synergy Program.
• Maintain retrieval remotes and troubleshooting retrieval problems.
• Assist Media Specialist with daily news broadcast.
• Pull books and related materials (from computer category reports) for classes using Media Center.
• Assist with Book Fair, displays in Media Center, issue receipts for lost books, order library supplies.
• Verify that all materials have been returned before a student withdraws. Issue a list of all materials not returned to School Secretary and Guidance Office.
• Before school starts in fall, check in materials, magazines, and new equipment received during summer and have equipment ready for teacher check-out when school begins. Assist Media Specialist "finalize" inventory.
• Periodically send students bills for overdue materials. Before school is out send bills to student's parents for materials not returned.
• After school is out, assist Media Specialist with a complete inventory of Media Center. Clean and check equipment for operation. Keep an accurate record of equipment sent out for repair. Check in teacher materials and inventory equipment. Assist with finalizing inventory and issue circulation, missing items, and inventory reports.
• Keep up-to-date backups of Synergy and Follett Circulation Systems.
• Maintain a list of student bar code numbers. Assign new students a number and enter information in the computer. Issue a student list of their bar code and room numbers.
• Keep an accurate account of all bar code numbers used for books, AV materials, and equipment. Assign bar code numbers to purchase orders when ordering new materials.
• Keep a copy of purchase orders for checking new material in.
• Process and enter all new material in the computer. Assist Media Specialist with cataloging. Knowledge of a "Full Marc Record" is necessary.
• Assist teachers in use of new technology.
• Be an example of exemplary adult behavior for students.
• Project a genuine care and concern for all students.
• Participate in professional development, as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned by the Principal and Media Specialist.

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