Bus Assistant

The role

The Bus Assistant monitors daily school bus activities to reinforce safety protocols. This person works with the driver to assist with evacuations and supervises scholars during transit.

What you will do

• Monitor daily school bus activities to reinforce bus safety protocols and keep scholars safe
• Ensure safe loading and unloading of scholars to and from destinations
• Work as part of a team with the driver to assist with urgent and emergency bus evacuation procedures
• Perform routine cleaning and attending to spills or body fluids that occur due to student illness or behavior
• Fill out incident report forms and document injuries of students or others while riding on the bus
• Call families to get an ETA when they are not at the stop waiting for scholars
• Supervise any scholars who need to be returned to school until their families pick them up
• Email the school leadership team to summarize any safety incidents
• Perform other duties as requested by school leadership or the bus driver

Required qualifications

• An educator with an unwavering commitment to the Democracy Prep mission of college success and authentic civic engagement for our scholars
• A flexible professional who feels comfortable making quick adjustments to their work in response to scholar needs
• A collaborative teammate who is eager to learn, model and uphold bus safety for all scholars
• A strong communicator who will build rapport with school leaders regarding route updates, parent pickup, scholar behavior on bus rides and overall operations of the bus route schedule

About the company

Democracy Prep's mission is to educate responsible citizen-scholars who will change the world.