Position Title: Tutor

Term of Employment: Part-Time; Temporary

Reports To: Principal

Pay Information: $15.00 per hour; no benefits

General Statement of Job

Under general supervision, provides tutorial services to assist students in achieving a better understanding of specific subject material and in improving academic capabilities in designated areas. Collaborates with the school principal and staff members to assess students’ needs and how best to address them. Work is on an “as needed” basis. Reports to the Principal or designee.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide academic assistance to assigned tutees, either in a group or individually
• Help students develop positive attitudes toward learning and studying
• Help students develop self-confidence, raise self-concept, and reduce anxiety or fear of failure in academic work
• Help students develop the study skills necessary for academic success
• Establish and maintain rapport with the assigned student(s)
• Serve as a role model for students being served

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• General knowledge of student code of conduct
• General knowledge of procedures to follow in the event of an emergency
• Some knowledge of the curriculum for the grade/subject
• Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students
• Ability to motivate students
• Ability to maintain order and discipline
• Ability to operate common office machines
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments
• Demonstrates genuine care for children and investment in their growth and development
• Flexible and keen ability to adapt
• Displays teachable attitude 
• Dedication to community service 
• Basic computer skills, including the ability to navigate online systems and email (e.g. Google Classroom and Zoom) 
• Attention to detail 
• Organized, responsible, motivated, and professional 
• Excellent time management and decision-making skills 
• Ability to work with diverse personalities; seeks to learn and understand while developing cultural awareness 

• Ability to adapt to a sometimes challenging, evolving environment 
• Strong personal standards of excellence, ethics, and integrity 

Minimum Training and Experience

• Non-Certified: High School diploma and a minimum of 48 hours of college level coursework; minimum GPA of 2.0 is required

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

• Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. The work often requires bending, squatting, reaching, with the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights and the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential job-related injury, such as those found in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving automotive equipment. 
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, contracts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, contracts, policies, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including educational and legal terminology.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.