Job Description
Job Details Level Experienced
Job Location Girard College - Philadelphia, PA
Position Type Regular Part Time
Education Level Bachelor's Degree
Residential Advisors Part Time Overnight Weekend Shift Girard College is a full scholarship boarding school that fosters intellectual curiosity, social development, and emotional growth in academically focused students from underserved communities. We ensure every student the opportunity and the means to achieve excellence and preparation for advanced education through purposeful academic and residential programs.
Girard College seeks to recruit top part time overnight residential advisor talentfor all grades 1-12. Our ideal residential advisor candidates have a passion and are committed to the achievement and success of children that are in their care. They enjoy supervising, mentoring, guiding, and engaging with children outside of the classroom.
Schedule: The anticipated overnight schedule is as follows and the Weekend Program 2024/2025 School Year begins tentatively on October 4, 2024.
16 Hours Per Week - Friday and Saturday 11 pm to 7 am
Essential Expectations of Girard College Residential Advisors Include but Are Not Limited to: - Continuously monitor an assigned building/students and log hourly student headcounts and activity into the electronic system.
- Provide an accessible, supportive, and nurturing living environment for the students.
- Be accessible to students for personal and emergency situations.
- Lead, instruct and facilitate the "Morning Life Skills" curriculum.
- Wake students and supervise them while they get ready for school.
- Accompany students to breakfast and supervise them while they eat.
- Enforce rules, policies and procedures governing good student conduct.
- Accompany and/or drive students off campus in an emergency situation.
- Serve as a role model for the students.
- Perform other duties as required.
Desired Residential Advisor Characteristics: - Strong student management skills.
- High level of personal organization and planning.
- Team player: maturity, humility, grit, flexible, follow-through, sense of humor, open to feedback and a "roll-up-my-sleeves" attitude.
- Strong belief in the Girard College mission and its core values
- Mastery of and enthusiasm for a growth mindset towards personal/professional growth and student outcomes
Qualifications Education, Skill and Ability Requirements: - Previous child-care experience or supervision of children required.
- A minimum high school diploma required, some earned credits or completed college degree preferred.
- Ability to work well in a team environment.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Computer literate
- Valid driver's license
Physical Requirements: - Extensive walking, climbing stairs (up to four flights), standing, and sitting for long periods. Reaching, stretching, bending, stooping and other physical efforts required carrying up to 20 pounds.
- Manipulating buttons, zippers, shoelaces, etc. requires fine motor skills to assist a student's dress.
- Responding quickly in emergencies. Requires fast walking and traversing stairs quickly.
- The ability to get in and out of a van or school bus as well as the ability to drive a van.
GIRARD ESTATE
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Flexible hours, Night shift, Weekend work, Saturday,