Bus Aide

Position Type:
Transportation/Bus Aide

Date Posted:
11/4/2025

Location:
Transportation

Date Available:
2026-2027 School Year

Closing Date:
Until Filled Primary Purpose:
- Under the direct supervision of the Director of Transportation and/or the Transportation Operations Manager, Rides buses and helps driver ensure safe and orderly transportation of students with disabilities.



Qualifications Profile


- Any combination of education and experience providing the required skill and knowledge for successful performance would be qualifying. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:
- High School diploma or equivalent.
- Preference given to applicants with prior school bus experience



Essential Job Functions:
- Provide direct/indirect supervision of special education students transported by school bus. Maintain close communication with the bus driver.
- Develop a cooperative working relationship with other school personnel serving students transported on the school bus.
- Assist in communing student needs to appropriate school and transportation personnel. Perform related clerical tasks.
- Issue citations/incident reports as appropriate.
- Prepare students reports as appropriate.
- Collaborate with bus driver in students seating assignments.
- Assist bus driver and staff with safe loading and unloading of students.
- Exhibit at all times appropriate role modeling through language, dress, and hygiene expressing appropriate attitudes toward sex, criminal behavior and the use of drugs.
- Work independently; communicate well, relate to children in a positive way; maintain cooperative, proper relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
- Understand and carry out oral and written directions; maintain a self-management system including schedules and daily logs.
- Physically assist in the lifting and moving of students as is appropriate. Experience:

Additional Duties:
- Assist guidance, pupil transportation staff or building administration, as needed.
- Perform any other related duties as assigned.



Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.
- Ability to work with a diverse group of individuals.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding students, employees and others.
- Ability to establish a supportive and compassionate relationship with students with special needs.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, staff and others contacted in the course of work.
- Ability to report work orally or in writing to supervisor as required.
- Effective writing and verbal communication skills.



Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards
- Ability to work outdoors for loading and unloading students.
- Ability to sit in a school bus, a desk, conference table or in meeting rooms of various configurations for varying amounts of time.
- Ability to see, read and distinguish colors, with or without vision aides, instructional materials, rules and policies and other printed matter.
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal conversations.
- Ability to write legibly so that others may read and understand.
- Ability to walk on uneven terrain, school grounds and school buses.
- Physical ability to lift and carry from 40-60 pounds, as well as bend, stoop, walk, reach overhead, and stand as many as four hours per day.
- Physical agility to push/pull, squat, twist and turn.
Note: This list of essential functions and physical requirements is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary in accordance with the requirements of the job.