Job Details

Salary Range:
Bilingual/Bicultural School-Home Assistant, SR-11: $3,484.00 per month

Responsibilities:

1. Serves as liaison to assist in promoting cooperation and understanding between parents, and school and project personnel.
2. Serves as liaison to assist in solving students' educational and related problems.
3. Disseminates project information.
4. Explains school programs, policies and procedures to parents; translates and relates parents' concerns to project and school staff.
5. Seeks community resources and maintains a file of these resources; suggests various resources to assist parents with their problems.
6. Suggests parents and others in the community with special skills as resource persons in the classrooms.
7. Encourages parents to participate in school activities.
8. Assists in organizing Parent Advisory Groups and encourages parents to participate.
9. Assists in planning and developing projects to increase parent participation in school-related activities.
10. Plans for and/or conducts information and interest sessions for parents.
11. Assists in translating information on various social and health programs, etc.
12. Participates in various training programs; prepares activity reports.

Except for the substitutions provided for in this specification, applicants must have had general work experience of the kind and quality described below:

1. Understand and explain various materials related to the program/project/activity.
2. Establish and maintain rapport with individuals and groups and encourage participation in program/project activities.
3. Speak effectively with individuals and groups and to elicit pertinent information.
4. Plan and conduct group information sessions.
5. Prepare activity reports.
6. Recognize and identify basic individual human needs.

In addition, applicants must have had at least one (1) year's experience that provided the applicant with the following knowledge and skills:

1. Knowledge of Chuukese and/or Marshallese culture. Such knowledge may have been gained by participating in normal daily living activities in one of these communities.
2. Ability to speak, read, write, and understand Chuukese and/or Marshallese language. Such ability may have been gained by participating in normal daily living activities in one of these communities.
3. Ability to establish and maintain rapport with Chuukese and/or Marshallese communities.

1. Successful completion of a one (1) year Human Services Curriculum leading to a certificate of Achievement at an accredited Community College and which included field experience in Community Service may be substituted for one (1) year of general experience.
2. Successful completion of a two (2) year Human Services Curriculum leading to a degree at an accredited Community College and which included field experience in Community Service may be substituted for the general experience requirement.
3. Partial completion of a substantially full-time Human Services Curriculum at an accredited Community College and which included field experience in Community Service may be substituted for the general experience on a month-for-month basis.

Possession of the required number of years of experience will not in itself be accepted as proof of qualification for a position. The applicant's overall experience must have been of such scope and level of responsibility as to conclusively demonstrate that he/she has the ability to perform the duties of the position for which he/she is being considered.

1. A copy of the applicant's TA History Report or equivalent system-generated report;
2. A signed letter from the applicant's supervisor that includes the applicant's name, his/her TA job title, the TA start and end dates (from mm/yy to mm/yy), his/her specific TA duties performed, and either the TA hours worked per week or total TA hours worked;
3. Copies of the applicant's signed SF-10 Forms.