Description:
Mentor provides a safe and secure environment for both students and staff. Mentor’s develop and maintain professional relationships with students and staff while providing assistance in a smooth transition for the students. Mentors help students with developing a sense of belonging while helping them to discover their road to success and thrive.
Essential functions
• Provide a safe and secure environment for both students and staff through visual supervision of the students by being aware of the surroundings and any potential harmful situations
• Serve as a positive role model by modeling desirable behaviors—e.g. patience, tolerance, and reflective listening to achieve expected behaviors and actions
• Be encouraging, supportive, respectful of student’s time, opinions and decision making while establishing appropriate boundaries with the students.
• Motivate, empower, inspire, and collaborate with leadership teams while creating a result oriented environment.
• Share ideas/information with clarity to all staff.
• Complete all forms, document, and evaluation survey on students legibly
• Must attend all on-going trainings within the allotted time frame
• Maintain the following: cleanliness and neatness of buildings/ grounds, expenses within the amounts budgeted for outings, student’s schedule and structured environment.
• Help teach students responsibility by participating in daily chores while ensuring their safety and the safety of others by following the rules and being respectful to others.
• Problem solve during stressful situation.
Work environment —Working inside and outside in a ranch type environment including animals, experiencing varied weather conditions at times such as wind, rain, snow, ice, extreme heat or cold. Grounds consist of rocks, uneven grounds, cement, grass, dirt, and mud. Extremely noisy at times inside and outside of buildings.
Physical demands —While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to hear and talk. This position is frequently very active and requires walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, bending, running, sitting, lifting, reaching over your head, driving, physical and manual labor. Employee will need to be able to lift or move objects weighing up to 60 lbs. Be able to use tools or equipment requiring a moderate degree of dexterity, ascends and descends a step stool, use garden tools as well as recreation equipment. The employee must drive various motor vehicles. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision clarity (100 yards), color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Travel —Approximately 20% of the time you will need go off site in a company car to purchase supplies for a needed project or to go for an off-site activity with the students.
Qualifications:
• Must be 20 or older and a High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Must be able to pass a background check and motor vehicle check
• Must have a current Utah drivers license
• Must have basic math and computer skills
• Must have effective time management skills, boundaries, good listener, and adhere to rules and regulations
• Effective communication both written and verbally
• Will need to be CPR/First Aid (within first 30 days of employment) and ICC trained
• Must be physically fit and capable to perform manual labor
• Must be able to complete responsibilities under various weather conditions such as snow, ice, heat and be able to adhere to physical demands of walking, running, lifting, hiking, rock climbing, skiing, snow boarding or any other outside related activities.
• No sensitivity to smells or animals.
• Work well in a team setting environment
Required education and experience —High School Diploma or equivalent and experience based on requirements that are job-related and consistent with business necessity.
Application Instructions:
PLEASE SEND RESUME ALONG WITH SHIFT YOU ARE APPLYING FOR TO: janetm@discoveryranchforgirls.com