Verizon Innovative Learning STEM Achievers Camp Assistant - Verizon Grant (Hourly)

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

To provide camp support for the Verizon Innovative Learning (VIL) STEM Achievers program. The VIL program is a STEM enrichment program for students in grades 6-8. The program begins with a summer immersion experience and then offers one full workshop day in the fall and one in the spring for additional STEM learning. For more information about the VIL program: https://verizon.nacce.com/

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Supervise and participate in camp-wide programming activities with campers

• Work cooperatively with other program staff to ensure campers' safety

• Building relationships with campers by showing compassion, empathy, and understanding

• Prepare classroom equipment and instructional materials for instructors

• Help instructors maintain up-to-date records of student progress, attendance, and behavior

• Lead lessons in place of an instructor as assigned

• Attend program meetings and training 

• Assists with additional program duties 

​Knowledge

Must possess the required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Intermediate computer skills

• Knowledge of Google suite

• Knowledge of different classroom management techniques

Skills

Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Maintaining an established work schedule.

• Maintaining confidentiality of students and other work-related information.

• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills including tact, patience, diplomacy, sensitivity, and flexibility as it relates to working with students from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and learning styles.

• Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.

• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with people of diverse backgrounds, including students, instructors, tutors, and staff.

• Ability to apply knowledge of current education and instructional theories, methodologies, techniques, and principles.

• Ability to apply knowledge of the subject area.

• Comfortable assisting the Co-Directors, Instructors, and Volunteers as needed to run a seamless camp experience

Technology Skills

• Demonstrate proficiency using computer applications, online resources, and other technologies for the classroom.

• Demonstrate proficiency using an online learning management system such as Canvas to develop and build course content and perform administrative duties.

Required Work Experience

• 1-year related work experience

Preferred Work Experience

• Recent formal and informal classroom experience, coursework, or other activity with students at the specified grade levels.

• Knowledge of current instructional strategies appropriate for students at the specified grade levels.

• Has a desire to learn more about STEM.

• Experience delivering lessons, leading discussions and/or laboratory experiments. 

Required Education

• Experience as appropriate working with the level of students being taught OR

• Associate’s, Bachelor’s, or Master’s Degree in education or related field

Special Requirements

Licenses/Certifications; Other

•  ACC non-exempt (classified) employees are not eligible for employment consideration.

Other Preferred Qualifications

• Valid Texas State Board for Educator Certification credential. College-level teaching experience can substitute for the teaching certificate.

•  Familiarity with Immersive Media, Digital Product Innovations, Smart Solutions, and Artificial Intelligence + Robotics.

• Valid Texas Driver's License and reliable transportation for travel within the ACC service area.

Pay Rate

$30.40

Number of Openings:

Job Posting Close Date:

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( [email protected] ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.