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** Bus Driver (Part Time)**
**Job Category****:** Head Start **Requisition Number****:** BUSDR04029 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
Position Title: Bus Driver
Employee Type: Part Time/Regular
Supervisor Title:
Division: U.S. Programs & Advocacy
Summary
The Bus Driver provides regular transportation services for Head Start / Early Head Start children while following the safest and most efficient routes, obeying all applicable laws, Head Start/Early Head Start regulations and Department of Transportation, (DOT), regulations, maintaining route schedules, and reporting all concerns to supervisor and relevant family services staff. You will be responsible for regular bus maintenance, including vehicular fluid levels, essential maintenance paperwork, safety checklist, and the reporting of damage/malfunctions to the supervisor, as participating in bus safety drills.
You will ensure internal and external vehicular cleanliness, recordkeeping, damage/malfunction reporting, safety equipment/seat belt maintenance, bus entry/exit monitoring, educational/social interaction with children, and communication with parents/families as needed. Additional responsibilities may include acting as a custodial, kitchen, and disability aide, and supporting program operations as necessary.
As a frontline representative of Save the Children, you will be required to ensure the safety and security of children and families and represent the agency values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity.
As a Save the Children employee who will come into contact with children on a routine basis, you are expected to prevent child abuse in every situation by striving, through mental awareness, good practice and training to minimize risk to children. You must take positive steps to protect children who may be a subject of concern and report, respond to any instance of child abuse, and promote training and awareness around all child-safeguarding obligations.
**What Youll Be Doing (Essential Duties)**
* Provide regular transportation services for Head Start children while following the safest and most efficient routes;
* Obey all applicable laws, Head Start/Early Head Start regulations, and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations, maintaining route schedules, and reporting all concerns to supervisor and relevant family services staff;
* Provide regular bus maintenance, including vehicular fluid levels;
* Complete essential maintenance paperwork, safety checklist, and the reporting of damage/malfunctions to the transportation supervisor;
* Perform bus safety drills.
* Ensure internal and external vehicular cleanliness and that recordkeeping, damage/malfunction reporting, safety equipment/seat belt safety are maintained;
* Perform bus entry/exit monitoring;
* Ensure educational/social interaction with children and communication with parents/families as needed.
* Performs other duties as assigned.
**Required Qualifications**
* Minimum of a High School diploma or G.E.D.
* Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
* Must have a valid Commercial Drivers License, with a school bus & passenger endorsement in accordance with state laws and a good driving record.
* Proven ability to follow directions and take initiative.
* Ability to perform medium to heavy physical work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently and up to 5-10 pounds constantly, performing such activities as sitting, crawling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping. This also includes some duties that require repetitive action and motion skills, keyboarding and computer use.
Physical Requirements related to essential functions: Ability to perform medium to heavy physical work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently and up to 5-10 pounds constantly, performing such activities as sitting, crawling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting and grasping. This also includes some duties that require repetitive action and motion skills, keyboarding and computer use.
Clear pre-employment background check requirements, including local, state, and national criminal records check, sex offender registries, employment, and education verifications (including child abuse registry check if required by state regulations) and pass all state and local health requirements required post job offer and prior to employment.
This position may require the incumbent to operate a motor vehicle to fulfill certain essential functions of the job. The incumbent should maintain a valid drivers license and remain in compliance with any Save the Children policies pertaining to the safe operation of motor vehicles.
Current and former Head Start/Early Head Start parents will receive preference for employment vacancies for which they are qualified.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
*Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children every day and in times of crisis transforming their lives and the future we share.*
*Our work for children and their families requires that we commitat every opportunityto work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any formin our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.*
*We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.*
*Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Childrens policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.*
*Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.*
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