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SalaryFounded in 2005, Education for Change (EFC) is a charter management organization that was created as a partnership between Oakland Unified School District and the education reform community in order to leverage the flexibilities in charter law to facilitate greater innovation and to address the underperformance of our most vulnerable student populations. EFC is Oakland's largest charter operator, serving over 3,000 students in the Fruitvale and Elmhurst neighborhoods of East Oakland. Five of seven of our schools were formerly OUSD schools that converted to EFC to leverage the flexibility and agility provided by charter law for greater outcomes for our students.
The Traffic Monitor ensures the safety of students, staff, and families by off-site supervision during arrival and dismissal.
REPORTS TO: Dean of Culture / Site Operations Manager
Position Summary
The Traffic Monitor ensures the safety of students, staff, and families by off-site supervision during arrival and dismissal.
Responsibilities:
- Assess and maintain traffic patterns and control in assigned work location
- Direct movement of traffic through school entrances/exits using sign and hand signals
- Ensure students and staff adhere to traffic signals, including railroad crossings
- Manage the placement, movement and dismantling of signs, barricades, cones and other traffic control devices
- Record license number of traffic control violators for police
- Be kind and courteous to the traveling public/pedestrians
- Consistently maintain work habits, appearance and behavior that serve as a model for students
- Support with discipline system per school-wide progressive discipline steps
- Prepares incident statements of events witnessed for the purpose of written documentation
- Good communication and interpersonal skills; accuracy, discretion, and ability to work
- Crisis Management and intervention for students
- Support for student concerns (first aid, socio-emotional support, etc.)
- Support with one-to-one student needs, as assigned
- Facilitate sports and organized games with students
- Lead by example
- Communicate with families, teachers, Site Operations Manager, and Deans of Culture
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- Experience working with youth ages is preferred, but not required
- Must possess a growth mindset and be able to use feedback to refine practice
- High school diploma or the equivalent; may be satisfied by appropriate experience and recommendations verifying sufficient knowledge and skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Able to build immediate and caring rapport with children of all ages and from diverse backgrounds; some understanding of child growth and development.
- Passion for teaching and working with students from urban communities, with specific knowledge and understanding of the needs of students from different experiences, languages and backgrounds.
- Excellent organization, time management and follow-up skills; high sense of commitment; ability to work as part of a team.
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to speak and write clearly and persuasively.
- Strong behavioral management skills.
- Able to work in a creative and demanding learning environment, including the ability to problem-solve and manage ambiguity and adversity.
- Sense of humor, high ethical professional standards, equity perspective.
EFC Core Values
- Connected-We continually work to build trusting relationships among students, families, staff, and the Oakland community at large. We are an all-hands-on-deck network driven by empathy. We value our collective identity and the individual identities of our community members and scholars such that we have a sense of collective ownership and responsibility for each other and for our scholars.
- Inclusive- We proactively disrupt predictable patterns of opportunity, power, privilege, and performance. We create an inclusive environment where multiple perspectives are not only valued but sought, where people from all backgrounds feel seen and heard and can thrive, and where we all feel a deep sense of accountability to our mission.
- Interdependent- Our success at every level is dependent on our individual and collective sustainability. To that end, we are transparent, creative, and collaborative problem-solvers who seek to build trusting relationships. We are curious and are open to new ideas while also putting systems in place to ensure continuity so that our employees can stay, grow, thrive, and help make good on our promise to our students and families.
- Learners- We support each other to develop and grow so that we can leverage our collective power, intelligence, and passion on behalf of our students. We lean on home-grown leaders who are rooted in our community. Individuals feel known and are provided opportunities to maximize their potential in alignment with their passions and goals.
