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School Crossing Guard

Qualifications: Minimum high school diploma or G.E.D. preferred. Able to read, write, speak, and understand English. Meets health and physical requirements.

Job Goal: To provide security and protection for school-age children, parents, and staff in school zones before and after school.

Essential Functions:

• Monitors traffic and traffic signals in school zones to provide safe access to and from school
• Assists school children and their parents in crossing the street to ensure their safety
• Directs traffic and notifies motorists not to proceed when children and parents are crossing the street
• Warns motorists when they are exceeding the speed limit in school zones and/or records their license plate number for subsequent prosecution if children are endangered by their actions
• Has knowledge of traffic safety laws and regulations pertaining to right of way, speed limits, and school zones
• Monitors the flow of traffic and observes traffic signals to determine when it is safe for pedestrians to cross the street
• Directs and stops traffic to allow for the safe passage of school children and parents
• Notifies police or other appropriate authorities of any situation requiring immediate or prompt attention
• Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job
• Performs the physically demanding aspects of the position and works in all types of weather conditions
• Interacts with students and parents in a friendly, considerate, and tactful manner
• Performs other duties as assigned

Physical Demands:

• Standing
• Stooping
• Balancing
• Reaching
• Talking
• Hearing
• Seeing
• Running
• Walking

Vocational Preparation: None required

Temperament (Personal Traits):

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria
• Adaptability to dealing with people

Capacity and Ability Requirements:

• Intelligence: Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments
• Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately
• Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures
• Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color
• Spatial: Ability to comprehend forms in space and understand relationships of plane and solid objects

Work Conditions: May experience some degree of discomfort due to exposure to all types of weather; may experience some degree of risk due to proximity of automobile traffic

Terms of Employment:

• 180-day contract
• $40.00 per day
• Two hours work per day (one hour before school and one hour after school); specific times to be determined by principal

Immediate Supervisor:

• Principal
• Assistant director for administration

General Requirements: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.

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