Summer School-Kindergarten Jumpstart Coordinator (INTERNAL ONLY)

Pay Grade: Stipend ($4,710.00)

Position Control:

Department: School

Accountable To: Director of Curriculum

FLSA Status: Exempt

** This posting is intended for INTERNAL employees only **

Creation/Revision Date: January 9, 2023

Summary: Under general direction, incumbent(s) supports teachers in the implementation of the regular and supplemental curricular, instructional, and assessment programs.

Essential Functions:

• Plans the Scope & Sequence (including SEL, fine motor skills, and reading) for Kinder Jumpstart classes for 27 schools.
• • Social and Emotional Competency - child’s ability to interact with others, regulate own emotions and behavior, problem solve and communicate effectively
  • Fine and Gross Motor - child’s development and ability to use minor and major muscle movement with precision, balance and control
  • Language - Receptive and Expressive - child’s development and ability to understand directions, stories, conversations, and nonverbal cues. Child’s ability to communicate needs wants and ideas with verbal and nonverbal cues.
  • Emergent Literacy - child’s developing foundations of reading and writing; engaging with literature, identifying, differentiating and manipulating sounds, and alphabet knowledge.
• Evaluates and inventories the needed summer materials for Jumpstart teachers
• Provides a budget and ensures that materials are received and delivered to schools
• Promotes the Summer WESD Kinder program and encourages teachers to teach in the classes
• Provides program templates and establishes procedures (such as sign in/out sheets)
• Plans and facilitates the Professional Development for Kinder teachers in May 2025
• Creates a program assessment to measure appropriate growth
• Manages the student registration for each class and works with school team to fill the class to capacity
• Coordinates all work with Academic Services, meeting regularly to ensure quality implementation and address any concerns and needs
• Be present at each site on a regular basis through the summer program, observing classes, providing feedback and addressing concerns and needs
• Must be present 30 minutes prior to and 30 minutes after summer school programs each day of summer school.

Required Qualifications:

To be eligible for this position, an applicant must meet the following required qualifications. Verification of these required qualifications is necessary.

• Valid Standard Arizona Department of Education Teaching Certificate

Preferred Qualifications:

It is preferred that applicant possesses the following preferred qualifications; however, the following qualifications are not required to be eligible for this position.

• Prior experience in a Kindergarten Classroom
• Prior experience as a Summer School Coordinator

Knowledge and Skills Required:

To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications for this job description are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills required, but not limited to, for this position include:

• Using positive non-verbal communication to impact personal image and the image of the district;
• Being accessible to and visible in schools, community, and district;
• Inspiring and sustaining ongoing school/department improvement that is focused on student learning;
• Organizing program management;;
• Engaging and encouraging communication skills while interacting with supervisors, staff, students, etc. to exchange information.

Approximately time commitment:

• 5 hours/week beginning 2/3/25 for remainder of school year
• 5-6 hours/day during Jumpstart (5/27/25 - 6/20/25)

Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions:

The working environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The Washington Elementary School District is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act Title VII of 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Washington Elementary School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability or age in employment or in any of its educational programs or in the provisions of benefits and services to students.