Assistant I, Administrative/Substitute Teacher

Salary: $18.00 Hourly
Location : Prescott, AZ
Job Type: Regular Part Time (20-25 hours/wk)
Job Number: 2023-00481
Department: FEC
Opening Date: 11/13/2023
Description of Position
*First Review Date 12/01/2023*
The Incumbent will serve as a receptionist and, when needed, as a substitute teacher. This will include a wide range of clerical, teacher and administrative support. Responsibilities include:

• monitoring the security entrance
• greeting parents and children
• identifying and directing visitors
• answering the telephone and disseminating messages
• providing resource and referral information
• maintaining and updating all required records pertaining to children, staff and students
• client billing and financial recordkeeping
• taking inventory and purchasing supplies
• acting as a liaison with other YC departments
• maintaining waiting lists and assisting with enrollment of children
• scheduling student observations and lab times
• scheduling parent workshops
• leading tours of the center
• providing other administrative support, and performing other duties, as needed.
• when needed, substitute in classrooms - assistant will maintain a safe, stimulating, and age-appropriate learning environment. Will assist with room set-up, care-giving routines, small group activities, record keeping, and housekeeping chores as needed. Will arrange the learning environment and interact with children in ways that promote their social/emotional, physical, and cognitive skills.

Minimum Expectations & Requirements

• High School graduate, or GED equivalency
• Minimum of two years of general office, clerical, and bookkeeping experience
• Experience working with young children, birth through age 5
• Ability to meet the unique developmental and learning needs of infants/toddlers in a nurturing manner.
• Respect for children's individual differences and learning styles.
• Calm, patient and caring demeanor.
• Flexibility, creative problem-solving skills and positive attitude.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to practice diplomacy, maintain confidentiality and always exhibit professionalism
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to organize, prioritize and successfully complete tasks in a busy work environment
• Ability to use independent judgment to accomplish projects and assignments
• Competence with computers including databases, Internet, spreadsheets, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• TB, health and fingerprint clearance or ability to obtain

Preferred Skills & Abilities

• Associate degree
• Knowledge of child development
• Three years of increasing responsibility in an office environment
• Ability to adapt in a changing workplace with creativity and innovation
• Experience working with young children, birth through age 5
• CPR and First Aid certification (infant/child)

Essential Functions
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements and competencies listed 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.
Physical Demands
The physical demands 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 sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work 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.
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Yavapai College offers its full-time employees a comprehensive benefit package:
HEALTH/LIFE BENEFITS

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance: College's partial payment of premiums toward medical with pharmacy and/or dental plan options picked by employees for themselves (and eligible dependents)
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Pre-tax pay deductions to use for eligible medical or dependent daycare costs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Counseling and referral services for employees and their immediate families for depression, stress, family/marital conflict, and alcohol/drug issues
• Vision: Provides an amount per plan year for eligible expenses such as vision exams, lenses, frames, prescription sunglasses, and contact lenses
• Life Insurance: The College provides Basic Life Insurance coverage at twice of the employee's annual salary. Dependents have automatic coverage of $2,000/spouse and $1,000/per child if enrolled in medical plan.
• Voluntary Individual And Family Term Life Insurance: Additional term life insurance coverage available for employee, spouse and children.
• Other Insurance Coverage: Short Term and Long Term Disability (replacement income insurance), and Workers' Compensation (compensation, medical expenses and death benefits for on-the-job injuries or occupational diseases)

RETIREMENT BENEFITS

• Retirement Benefits: Arizona State Retirement System or Optional Retirement Plan, and Social Security (which provides a basic retirement annuity based on age and years of contribution)
• Tax Deferred Annuities: Employees' contributions to designated tax-deferred annuities
• Unemployment Compensation: Employees who are laid off or terminated may receive benefits if covered wages meet requirements

LEAVE BENEFITS

• Vacation : 10 days of Vacation leave annually. NOTE: For employees who work an amount of contractual days, there will be no earned vacation.
• Sick Leave: 12 days sick leave annually. NOTE: Employees working less than full time or an amount of contractual days will receive a proration of sick leave.
• Personal Leave: Use of up to three personal leave days per year which are charged against accumulated sick leave to take care of items of personal business
• Other Leave: Bereavement leave, Civic Duty Leave (Jury duty, active military duty, military training), and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Holidays: 24 days during the year as paid holidays for full-time employees which include Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, 3 days at Thanksgiving, Winter/year end break (10 days), Martin Luther King Day, Spring Break, Memorial Day, and Juneteenth.

OTHER BENEFITS

• Spanish Interpreter Incentive Program: Employees interested in additional compensation for their Spanish speaking skills agree to assist YC by attending two recruiting events and being available for Spanish Interpretation needs as they arise. Compensation is added to the employee's regular pay at the rate of $175 per month. Employees that are interested in participating let your HR Business partner know, so they can schedule you for the ACTFL language proficiency test at the YC testing center.
• Direct Deposit: Paychecks deposited directly into the employee's bank account(s)
• Tuition Waiver: Eligible Full-time Faculty and Staff may enroll up to 6 hours; eligible dependents may enroll in a partial or full program of course work without payment of tuition, exceptions may be lab fees and market based additional fees
• Sabbatical: Faculty, professional and administrative staff may apply for compensated leave of up to a year after six years of continuous service
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Additional Benefits and Services: Bookstore discount, local community discounts to faculty and staff, computer loan program, mail and notary service.