Pay Rate: $40.69-$53.09 |
Division: Head Start |
Close Date: Open Until Filled

Recruitment for Yup’ik Language Mentor

Location: Any Head Start Community

Open Until Filled

 

DIVISION:                    Education, Employment & Supportive Services

DEPARTMENT:            Head Start/Early Head Start

JOB TITLE:                   Yup’ik Language Mentor

POSITION STATUS:      Regular, Part-Time

EXEMPT STATUS:        Non-Exempt

PAY SCALE GRADE:     13-14-15

SUPERVISOR:               Child Development Family & Culture Manager

 

The Yup’ik Language Mentor will interact directly with students and teachers in classrooms to support them all toward speaking and understanding Yup’ik fluently while following the Head Start Program Performance Standards, the Head Start Act and all applicable federal and state licensing regulations.

 

BRIEF SUMMARY OF JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

  1. Speak, teach, and read to/with children in the classroom in Yup’ik for a designated amount of time each day and progressively more time with the goal of students speaking and understanding Yup’ik fluently while following the Yup’ik designed Head Start and/or Early Head Start curriculum and procedures.
  2. Model developmentally appropriate language and cultural immersion teaching skills for classroom teachers and teaching staff.
  3. Support families with promoting speaking and understanding Yup’ik by interacting with families at immersion family events associated with the program.
  4. Support teaching staff in developing age appropriate weekly lesson plans that include the Yup’ik language and age appropriate cultural activities.
  5. Support teaching staff in creating Yup’ik teaching resources and materials such as words, phrases, and story recordings and/or translations.
  6. Use appropriate guidance techniques consistent with early childhood education practices.
  7. Participate in staff, parent meetings and professional training sessions as applicable.
  8. Follow Head Start Child Abuse and Neglect Policies and Standards of Conduct and Confidentiality policies and report suspected cases of child abuse/neglect.
  9. Other duties as assigned by your supervisor.

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

 

  1. Fluent Yup’ik speaker.
  2. Know how to read and write, be literate, in the current Yup’ik writing system.
  3. Knowledge of the lifestyle and culture of the people in the Bering Strait region.
  4. Ability to work with children birth to five years old in various environments.
  5. Must be self-motivated, dependable and able to work with minimum supervision.
  6. Willing to travel to participate in training opportunities.
  7. This position is a Covered Position subject to all requirements of the Alaska Barrier Crimes Act AS 47.05.310-47.05.390, 7 AAC 10.900-10.990, and to the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act, 25 USC 3201-3211 (ICPA).  A background check clearance is required, including fingerprints, and the employee’s name will be submitted to the Background Check Unit of the State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and entered into their central registry.  Barrier Crimes Act and ICPA requirements apply and must be complied with at all times in order to remain in the position.

 

Native Preference per Public Law 93-638                                                     Approved (3-2-2023)

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