Position Type: Student Support/Instructional Assistants/Asst-Special Ed / 1:1
Date Posted: 6/4/2025
Location: River Birch Elementary
Date Available: 07/29/2025
Closing Date: Until Filled
Salary Lane: TECHD-R - Hourly pay starting at $27.00
ASSIGNED WORK DAYS PER YEAR: 181 days (School Year Days) - 35 hours per week
Benefits: Eligible for medical, dental, vision + voluntary benefits
Leave Day Pay: 3 personal days / 5 sick days
Primary Job Functions: To facilitate communication between students with hearing impairments and their hearing peers, the classroom teacher, and other personnel in the school system. Other duties that may be performed when not required to provide interpreting may include tutoring, note taking, participation in meetings as a member of the educational team, and other duties to support the educational environment.
Minimum Qualifications and Credentials Required: - Educational Requirements/certification: Two year college degree preferred.
- Must be certified by the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) and/or the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID).
- Fluent in English.
- Knowledge of school environment is preferred.
- American Sign Language (ASL), Signing Exact English (SEE), and/or other sign systems.
- Able to work effectively with staff and administration.
- Able to provide some tutoring to students when interpreting is not warranted.
Essential Functions: - Provide sign-to-voice/voice-to-sign interpreting which may include American Sign Language and/or oral interpreting depending upon the needs of the students.
- Encourage the classroom teacher(s) to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences of students.
- Participate in educational team meetings or offer input to provide insight on the success of communication strategies.
- May provide interpreting for extracurricular activites and parent meetings as directed (i.e., back-to-school night, graduation, etc.) These activities/meetings may extend beyond the school day and must be given prior notice in a timely manner.
- Provide help with professional development to orient staff and/or peers through inservice trainings as needed.
- Communicate effectively and accurately to the students' teacher(s) on an as needed or regular basis to enhance the students' learning and progression in the curriculum.
- Communicate regularly with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Teacher of Record (TOR) on assignments, grades, work ethic, participation in class, and IEP goals.
- Provide tutoring and/or note taking and other support services (i.e., photocopying, typing, and keeping data) only when interpreting is not needed.
- Monitor on a regular ongoing basis (where applicable), the effectiveness of hearing aids and other instruments intended to improve the students' ability to receive auditory input and keep data.
- Maintain confidentiality concerning the students and his/her personal and academic records.
- Be an example of exemplary adult behavior for students.
- Project a genuine care and concern for all students.
- Comply with all Avon Community School Corporation policies, guidelines, procedures, and protocols.
- Other duties as assigned by the Director of Special Education or designee.
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.
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.
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
