Position Description: Support Job Training instructors by providing classroom support. Assist with classroom preparation and class materials, starting/ending class in a timely manner, helping with group activities, working with students who need extra guidance, and providing examples to students as needed.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Preparatory work before/after class: making copies and setting up classroom activities
- Provide guidance and support to students working in small groups
- Participate in classroom activities and assist individual students during lessons and exercises
- Administrative tasks as needed
- Other activities as needed
Reports to: Center Manager or Volunteer Supervisor
Role Requirements & Abilities:
- Interest in working in a classroom setting with adult learners; previous experience teaching or tutoring valued but not required
- Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, or an interest in learning about it
- Ability to flex communication style to multiple cultural environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to present to diverse audiences, specifically racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse communities
- A solid understanding of, or interest in learning about, cultural humility and cultural responsiveness
- Reliable, punctual, and consistent
- Patient, understanding, and caring
- Strong listening skills