| Purpose: |
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Under limited supervision, responsible for supervising crossing guards at assigned locations to ensure student pedestrian safety in designated school crossing locations. |
| Duties, Functions and Responsibilities: |
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Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.
- Performs daily field checks to ensure appropriate staffing and safety of assigned school crossing locations.
- Coordinates substitutes for vacant locations and/or reports unstaffed school crossing locations to school office.
- Monitors potential school crossing locations and makes staffing recommendations.
- Communicates potential safety issues to management and staff members.
- Monitors and reports pedestrian counts at assigned school crossing locations.
- Prepares and submits required reports on a daily, weekly and/or monthly basis.
- Represents Safe Routes to School Program at community events.
- Substitutes at unstaffed school crossing locations, as needed.
- Monitors traffic flow to identify safe gaps in traffic through which pedestrians can safely cross the street.
- Directs and/or escorts pedestrians across the street in designated areas, stopping traffic as necessary.
- Communicates safe street crossing procedures and other information to students and adults.
- Gains cooperation of children, and reports uncooperative or unsafe behavior of children to a supervisor.
- Monitors the immediate area for unsafe and/or suspicious activity; records accurate description of suspicious person(s) or vehicle(s); reports unsafe and/or suspicious activity to a supervisor or law enforcement, in the event of an emergency.
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| Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised: |
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- Responsible for the full range of supervisory activities including selection, training, evaluation, counseling, and recommendation for discharge.
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| Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: |
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Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
- Knowledge of the Safe Routes to School Program Crossing Guard procedures.
- Knowledge of basic child behavior
- Skill in verbal communication.
- Ability to hear and see approaching traffic.
- Ability to perceive and respond to potential hazardous and uncertain situations.
- Ability to stand and walk continuously for up to one and a half (1 ½) hours.
- Ability to repeatedly lift and carry objects weighing up to five (5) pounds upright continuously for 1 to 2 minutes at a time.
- Ability to respond quickly to potential emergency situations
- Ability to bend from the waist and/or twist.
- Ability to bend arms and push or pull a child weighing up to 100 pounds.
- Ability to work in extreme weather conditions, including exposure to extreme heat, cold, and inclement weather.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective communication and working relationships with city employees and the public.
- Ability to use personal vehicle to travel to assigned school crossing locations
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| Minimum Qualifications: |
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- One (1) year of related experience, six (6) months of which were in a lead or supervisory capacity.
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| Licenses and Certifications Required: |
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- Valid class “C” Texas Driver License.
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