Career Opportunities at the Los Angeles Urban League

Substitute Teacher I

headstartjobs — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:03 +0000

Position Information

Reports to:

Service Area Coordinator

Classification:

Part Time Non-exempt

Salary Range:

$2,843.00 - $4,091.00/monthly

Position Definition

The Head Start Substitute Teacher I is responsible for the planning and implementation of a curriculum in the classroom that meets the Head Start Program requirements and promotes social, physical and intellectual growth in preparation for primary school in preschool, day care center or other child development facility. The Substitute Teacher I, as part of the Teaching staff is part of an interdisciplinary team which includes Service Area Coordinator and the Family Services Associates. This position is situated in the Center Services component of a Head Start State Preschool program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of the Position

Plans and implements the Individualized plans for the children in the classroom.
Creates and modifies the daily classroom lesson plans in accordance with established curriculum.
Provides for a healthy and safe physical environment for the children, and integrates the parents into the educational program by providing a program that focuses on the parent as the prime educational provider
Conducts parent/teacher conferences and home visits twice a year.
Records pertinent information about children in the group
Constantly maintains classroom security throughout the school day session.
Provides for the completion of necessary paperwork on the children in the classroom (such as attendance reports, observations on individual children in the classroom, enrollment records and reports, etc).
Continually remains current on child development practices through classes, workshops and membership in professional organizations.

Knowledge and Skills Required

To be eligible for this position, the applicant must have as a minimum:

Associate Degree or higher (Bachelor/Master) in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, or a related field, regardless of the program option from an accredited college or university.
State of California Child Development Teacher Permit (CCDP) or higher.
Demonstrated knowledge of early childhood education and development programs , and the ability to:
- Work in a supportive team environment
- Work and communicate with low-income parents
- Communicate both orally and in writing

Conditions of Employment (prior to hire)

General Requirement:
- A completed background investigation (including fingerprinting and criminal screening)
- First Aid and CPR certification. It is to be updated as required
Health Requirements:
- A completed physical examination (with drug screening)
- A verification of T.B. clearance at time of employment (issued within 6 months prior to employment). It is to be renewed every year after employment.

Substitute Teacher II/Site Supervisor

headstartjobs — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:27:35 +0000

Position Information

Reports to:

Service Area Coordinator

Classification:

Part Time Non-exempt

Salary Range:

$3,144.00 – 4,522.00/monthly

Closing Date:

Thu, 03/04/2010

Position Definition

The Head Start Substitute Teacher II/Site Supervisor is responsible for the planning and implementation of a curriculum at their assigned site, as well as the classrooms that meets the Head Start Program requirements to promote social, physical and intellectual growth in preparation for primary school in preschool, day care center or other child development facility. The Substitute Teacher II/Site Supervisor position is responsible for all activities associated with the operations of the site. This position is situated in the Center Services component of the Head Start State Preschool program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of the Position

Plans and implements the Individualized plans for the children in the site and classroom.
Creates and modifies the daily classroom lesson plans in accordance with established curriculum.
Ensures for a healthy and safe physical environment for the children, and integrates the parents into the educational program by providing a program that focuses on the parent as the prime educational provider
Coordinates and conducts parent/teacher conferences and home visits twice a year.
Maintains records pertinent information about children in the site and classrooms
Constantly maintains site and classroom security throughout the school day session.
Provides for the completion of necessary paperwork on the children in the site/classrooms (such as attendance reports, observations on individual children in the classrooms, enrollment records and reports, etc).
Continually remains current on child development practices through classes, workshops and membership in professional organizations.

Knowledge and Skills Required

To be eligible for this position, the applicant must have as a minimum:

Bachelor Degree or higher in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, or a related field, regardless of the program option from an accredited college or university
Valid Child Development Site Supervisor Permit or higher issued by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

…..and

Two (2) years experience in an instructional capacity
Three (3) semester units in administration of Pre-School (Nursery)
Twenty-Four (24) semester units of coursework in ECE/Child development (exclusive of fieldwork)

Conditions of Employment (prior to hire)

General Requirement:
- A completed background investigation (including fingerprinting and criminal screening)
- First Aid and CPR certification. It is to be updated as required
Health Requirements:
- A completed physical examination (with drug screening)
- A verification of T.B. clearance at time of employment (issued within 6 months prior to employment). It is to be renewed every year after employment.

Substitute Assistant Teacher I

headstartjobs — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:17:13 +0000

Position Information

Reports to:

Services Area Coordinator

Classification:

Part Time Non-exempt

Salary Range:

$2,138.00 – 3,077.00/monthly

Position Definition

The Head Start Substitute Assistant Teacher I will be a part of a classroom teaching staff of a Head Start State Preschool child development center instructing children in activities designed to promote their social, physical and intellectual growth. The Head Start Substitute Assistant Teacher 1 will also be involved in the planning of individual and group activities to stimulate learning according to the ages of the children. The Substitute Assistant Teacher, as part of the Teaching staff is part of an interdisciplinary team which includes Service Area Coordinator and the Family Services Associates. This teaching position is situated in the Center Services Component of a Head Start State Preschool program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of the Position

Prepares lesson plans and outlines for assigned areas, and submits to the classroom Teacher for review.
Assists in the implementation of the Individualized plans for the children in the classroom.
Provides evaluative information to the classroom Teacher on the progress and development status of the children in the classroom.
Assists in ensuring the implementation of safe and supervised indoor and outdoor activities of the children.
Assists children during snack and meal time, and helps demonstrate appropriate dental and personal hygiene.
Accompanies the classroom Teacher on home visits.
Supervises the classroom for brief periods when the Teacher is on-site, but away from the classroom.

Knowledge and Skills Required

To be eligible for this position, the applicant must have as a minimum:

High School diploma or GED; and
Twelve (12) postsecondary semester (or equivalent quarter units) in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
Demonstrated knowledge of early childhood education and development programs , and the ability to:
- Work in a supportive team environment
- Work and communicate with low-income parents
- Communicate both orally and in writing

Conditions of Employment (prior to hire)

General Requirement:
- A completed background investigation (including fingerprinting and criminal screening)
- First Aid and CPR certification. It is to be updated as required
Health Requirements:
- A completed physical examination (with drug screening)
- A verification of T.B. clearance at time of employment (issued within 6 months prior to employment). It is to be renewed every year after employment.

Career Counselor - POMONA WORKSITE

humanresources — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:23:31 +0000

Position Information

Reports to:

Program Manager

Classification:

Full Time Non-exempt

Salary Range:

$29-46 K

Summary of Duties:

Under the direct supervision of the Program Manager, the Career Counselor is responsible for assessing customers’ transferable skills, work history, abilities, interests and educational background from records, testing, interviews, and professional sources; providing occupational counseling and educational planning, and conducting training, job development and placement activities.

Responsibilities:

Schedule/refer customers for required workshops, vocational assessment, employment, training programs, and other services;
Develop customers’ educational plans for selection of training/vocational goals;
Develop, maintain Individual Employment Plan;
Track customer progress from enrollment to training completion, job placement, and through the twelve-month retention period;
Guide customers regarding career options;
Prepare monthly activity, fiscal, and statistical reports;
Assess customers and determine support service needs, process support service requests, and maintain support service logs;
Obtain evaluations of customers’ progress from the classroom and/or employer, as well as feedback from the customers concerning the training services and documentation detailed in the customers’ IEP;
Assist customers with resume preparation and interview skills;
Recruit experts and technical resource people to facilitate seminars and training sessions;
Establish/maintain desirable linkages, communications and working relationships with business, industry, labor and other community organizations;
Participate in customer case meetings and staff training;
Conduct outreach activities to attract employers and job seekers to the WorkSource Center;
Additional duties as assigned by Director, Assistant Director and/or Program Manager.

Qualifications and Experience:

Ability to effectively counsel, motivate, communicate and assess customers’ skills and abilities to determine needed services;
Ability to identify and address potential barriers to long-term unemployment;
Excellent oral, math and written communication skills, to include ability to write reports;
Ability to maintain accurate and thorough customer records;
Ability to work with others in a multi-component program;
Experience working with federally-funded programs;
Familiar with the new Workforce Investment Act guidelines, policies and procedures, including working with customers who have multiple barriers to education, training and employment;
Proficiency and understanding of various computer software applications, to include Windows, Outlook, Work and Excel;
Experience finding Labor Market Information and employment opportunities on the internet.
Strong organizational and management skills with the ability to implement service activities successfully
Strong written and oral communication skills
Other duties as assigned.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Sociology, Education or related field or five+ years experience in Case Management and/or Occupational Counseling

Job Developer - POMONA WORKSOURCE CENTER

humanresources — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:48:01 +0000

Position Information

Reports to:

Program Manager

Classification:

Full Time Non-exempt

Salary Range:

$29,100-$46,600

Closing Date:

Fri, 01/29/2010

Summary of Duties:

Under the direct supervision of the Program Manager, the Job Developer is primarily responsible for developing working relationships with employers to develop job opportunities for the job-seeking customer. The Job Developer is also responsible for organizing employment service activities for job seekers in Intensive Services; interviewing customers and reviewing work history to identify suitable employment opportunities; assisting customers with resume preparation, interview techniques and other job search activities, and facilitates professional development workshops.

Responsibilities:

Develop job openings and act as a liaison between the employer and job seeker;
Create major job recruitments for the WorkSource Center;
Attend community events and job fairs to attract both employers and job seekers to the Center;
Participate in local outreach activities to include Chamber and Community events;
Review job orders and match customers with job requirements utilizing a computerized file search;
Assess the work history, education and training, job skills, and other related qualifications of the job seeker to identify suitable employment opportunities;
Interview customers and maintain documentation of customer job search activities;
Collect up-to-date labor market information and occupational data;
Coordinate and identify partner agencies to provide the appropriate service strategy for the customer to secure and retain employment;
Perform mock interviews to prepare customers for interviews;
Conduct professional development workshops to enhance customer soft skills and reduce employment barriers
Determine support service needs and secure resources;
Inform customers of job duties and responsibilities, compensation and benefits, work schedules and working conditions, company and union policies, promotion opportunities and other related information;
Attend staff development training, Continuous Quality Improvement Team meetings and other program events as assigned;
Prepare monthly reports of business activities
Other duties as assigned

Qualifications and Experience:

Ability to communicate and interact effectively with employers and job seekers. Ability to create reports and business correspondence. Be computer literate, proficient with business software applications, and online services.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in business administration or other business-related fields, or 5+ years experience in staffing, recruitment, job development, case management, sales, marketing or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Executive Director - GCEP

humanresources — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:35:40 +0000

Position Information

Reports to:

GCEP Board of Directors

Classification:

Full Time Exempt

Salary Range:

DOE

To apply for the GCEP Executive Director position submit a Cover Letter, Resume/Curriculum Vitae and three (3) References (including the name, title, address, phone and email address of each individual reference)

GREATER CRENSHAW EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP (GCEP)

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Position Description

The Organization:
The Greater Crenshaw Educational Partnership (GCEP) is a nonprofit corporation created to provide an innovative, student-centered structure for advancing the academic achievement, social and emotional development, and civic engagement of students at Crenshaw High School and its family of middle and elementary schools in South Los Angeles. The Crenshaw community is proud of its rich cultural and linguistic diversity.

The mission of GCEP is to serve as the Network Partner Organization for Crenshaw High School and its family of feeder schools for iDesign, a LAUSD transformation effort designed to inspire a new culture of learning in public schools. iDesign Schools proactively engage students, parents/guardians, educators, staff, administrators and community partners in the creation of locally-managed, collaborative, and accountable schools.

GCEP actively generates and supports unity of efforts among teachers, parents/guardians, students, staff, administrators and the community in assuming responsibility for rigorous teaching, learning, and outstanding citizenship for all students in our community. The Greater Crenshaw Educational Partnership’s relationship to the GCEP family of schools includes direct services, consultation, collaboration, oversight, and accountability. It includes a strong daily presence in the school as members of the school family, not as outsiders exerting oversight only. GCEP achieves its mission by leveraging the expertise of university, social service, business and community-based organizations.

The impetus for the development of GCEP’s transformative model was a broad group of stakeholders led by parents with a longstanding commitment to improving educational outcomes in the community. Founding members are the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, a private top-tier research institution; the Los Angeles Urban League, a historical civil rights organization; and The Tom and Ethel Bradley Foundation, a community-based foundation focused on activism.

The GCEP partnership brings a rich and diverse complement of resources to a reconceptualization of school and community relationships that envisions school reform and community revitalization as inextricably linked. As a powerful advocate for urban students, GCEP joins other stakeholders in pursuing culturally authentic best practices of teaching and learning that prepare urban students for the challenges and realities of the 21^st century.

For more information on GCEP, please refer to the GCEP Business Plan and the Memorandum of Understanding between Los Angeles Unified School District and GCEP.

THE POSITION
The GCEP community is seeking a visionary, high performance leader with demonstrated success in collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders that will serve in guiding GCEP toward exemplary academic achievement, healthy social and emotional development, and civic engagement of all students, as well as significant engagement of all parents and guardians. The Executive Director will guide the partnership, which is a deliberate effort to develop a dynamic collaboration among teachers, students, staff, parents/guardians, administrators and community stakeholders.

Under the direction of the GCEP Board of Directors that will reflect broad stakeholder representation, within a unique framework of the iDesign division of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the GCEP Executive Director is responsible for facilitating the charting of the course for Crenshaw High School and its family of schools. The Executive Director of GCEP works in concert with the Board of Directors and the entire GCEP partnership to set strategic direction and implement innovative measures to transform education in the GCEP community. The Executive Director is responsible for the implementation of GCEP’s core mission, management and operations. In addition he/she administers and aligns financial, instructional, operational, and programmatic resources to ensure that all of the schools in the GCEP family are improving educational and developmental outcomes.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS

A track record of effectively planning and leading organizational and cultural change in culturally and linguistically diverse urban public schools resulting in major improvements in student outcomes.
Demonstrated people skills and effective teambuilding, leadership development and program management skills.
An understanding and sensitivity to diverse stakeholders in the educational community, including the affirmation of cultural and linguistic assets of students and their families.
Master’s degree required. Doctorate degree preferred.
Knowledge of research-based school improvement initiatives.
Prior experience in executing successful professional and staff development, including all or most of the following: personalization within a small learning community framework; high expectations for student success; effective classroom management, student-centered standards-based teaching; learning and assessment; college and career access for all; culturally relevant and responsive methods and organizational management strategies.
Prior experience in supporting administrative staff, including effective coaching and mentoring
Knowledge of federal and state educational standards and assessments.
Documented ability to utilize data for instructional decision-making.
Experience with and understanding of strategic research and development.
Superior public relations skills.
Demonstrated acquisition and management of fiscal and human resources that have effectively and equitably led to increased student achievement.
The ability to foster transparency, build trust, and create effective networks of diverse stakeholders within and across school sites and the community.
Excellent oral and written communications skills.
Experience as a principal, deputy superintendent, or superintendent in an urban school district.
Experience in completing performance improvement plans related to formative and summative evaluation of professional staff.
Demonstrated knowledge and use of education technology initiatives.

POSITION DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Program planning and management of instructional strategy

Responsible for assisting the Board of Directors and school and community stakeholders in setting goals for all GCEP schools, to include (but not limited to) all district equity initiatives, student achievement consistent with single site plan and Small Learning Communities (if applicable), student achievement data to guide decisions on curricula and teaching practices, and professional and staff development and community engagement regarding the fundamental needs of educating students in schools that are part of GCEP.
Responsible for facilitating the development and implementation of the vision of learning that will guide and define decisions made by the GCEP Board of Directors.
Responsible for overall leadership of GCEP staff in the development and implementation of short and long range plans, policies and other activities.
Practice a student-centered approach by embracing the research and practices that offer insight into the thinking and needs of student learners. In schools in which Small Learning Communities exist, encourage Small Learning Community faculty to incorporate this philosophy in culturally-responsive ways in the classroom.

Governance

Lead the process of implementing democratic governance of all GCEP schools and co-construction with multiple stakeholder groups. Work collaboratively with all stakeholders by emphasizing active listening and stakeholder input.
Actively work toward distributed leadership by building leadership capacity across all GCEP schools.

Administration
Responsible for managing the Memorandum of Understanding with the Los Angeles Unified School District and its iDesign Division and ensuring that the policies and procedures identified within the MOU are in place, widely disseminated, and equitably enforced.Responsible for administration of overall operation of GCEP including: leading The Greater Crenshaw Educational Partnership in the process of measuring success via dashboard metrics established in collaboration with GCEP the GCEP family of schools, ensuring that continuing contractual obligations are being fulfilled; allocating resources for greater school and program effectiveness and efficiency; developing organizational and administrative policies and program objectives for Board consideration.

Lead the process of working with GCEP Schools and jointly developing metrics and methods for evaluating School Site Administrators in addition to or to replace those metrics already established by the District. These metrics and methods will be a material factor used by the District in its decision-making process when evaluating GCEP School Site Administrators, per the Memorandum of Understanding: LAUSD and GCEP.

Responsible for support of all activities associated with the Board of Directors, including staffing for all Board and committee meetings, meeting schedules, locations, development of the agenda and meeting materials.

Community Relations/Advocacy
Serve as the liaison with other organizations such as other iDesign partnerships, colleges and universities, businesses, social services and other community-based organizations. Actively engage them to access resources and create opportunities at the school site level on behalf of GCEP.

Financial Management
Responsible for the financial management of GCEP including the development and implementation of GCEP corporation annual budget.

Devise a strategy for development efforts and personnel to help make GCEP self-sustaining.

Fundraising
Work with the Board of Directors and GCEP personnel to implement a fundraising strategy. Serve as the key liaison between GCEP and foundations and other potential funding agencies.

Supervisory
Responsible for supervising all GCEP staff, including: interviewing; recommendations for hiring and training of employees; planning, assigning and directing GCEP staff work; appraising staff performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems

SALARY
Competitive and commensurate with experience.

APPOINTMENT TERMS
Five year appointment subject to annual review and evaluation. Annual contract begins on July 1 of each fiscal year.

CONFIDENTIALITY

Information regarding applicants and candidates will be kept confidential, except for review by the GCEP Board of Directors.

For a comprehensive discussion of GCEP, please see the GCEP Business Plan and the Memorandum of Understanding between LAUSD and GCEP. If you have any questions, please contact Angela Reddock at (323) 299.9660 Ext. 272 -or Niki Avila (323) 299.9660 Ext. 271 at the Los Angeles Urban League Human Resources Office.

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