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Safer Foundation
Location: Chicago, IL 60612 Document ID: AA465-6HKM Posted on: 2016-11-2111/21/2016 Job Type: RegularJob Schedule:Full-time
Minimum Education: Not Specified2016-12-21
Basic Skills/Instructional Facilitator
Title: Basic Skills/Instructional Facilitator
Division: Educational Services
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We have Instructional Facilitator positions available in 3 of our locations:
* Crossroads Adult Transition Center (ATC), 3210 W. Arthington, Chicago (60612)
* North Lawndale Adult Transition Center, 2839 W. Fillmore Street, Chicago (60612)
* PACE Institute (Cook County Jail), 26th Street & California, Chicago (60608)
The Basic Skills Instructional Facilitator provides a unique opportunity to employ academic training and peer-teaching to our clients in an unstructured and non-traditional learning environment. This training is holistic in its integration of the practical aspects of academic tasks with interpersonal skills relevant to the work place.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Stimulates scholastic improvement in our client population and is expected to guide class participants in their efforts to achieve basic competence in mathematics, reading and writing
- Subscribes to and utilizes the peer and group learning techniques inherent in Safer`s Basic Skills Methodology
- Addresses conflict management, attention span, impulse control, habit formation and other barriers to learning through a vigorous, interactive method of instruction
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Exceptional verbal and computational skills
- Knowledge of and ability to prepare lesson plans
- Ability to maintain composure under stress and to employ insight and creativity in interpersonal communication
- Ability to work in stressful situations, in a fast-paced environment that experiences frequent short-term changes
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 2 years’ successful experience teaching basic skills/GED to adults
- Prior experience working with individuals with criminal records, a plus
The Safer Foundation supports, through a full spectrum of services, the efforts of people with criminal records to become employed, law-abiding members of the community and as a result, reduce recidivism.
All positions are Full-Time (40-hours/week) and located in the Chicago Metropolitan area unless otherwise specified.
Safer Foundation is a drug-free workplace.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action/Minorities/Females/Veterans
www.saferfoundation.org
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