Volunteer / Unpaid Intern Application

Volunteer & Unpaid Intern

Garfield Heights City Schools is seeking dedicated, enthusiastic, and community-minded individuals to serve as volunteers and unpaid interns throughout the 2026-2027 school year. Volunteers and unpaid interns play an important role in supporting students, staff, and district programs while gaining valuable educational, professional, and community service experience. Opportunities are available in a variety of school settings, including classrooms, offices, student services, athletics, extracurricular activities, and district events. These are unpaid positions and are not employment with Garfield Heights City Schools. Individuals serve at the discretion of the district and under the supervision of designated district personnel.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Assist teachers and staff with classroom, office, or departmental activities.
• Support student learning through tutoring, mentoring, and educational enrichment activities, as appropriate.
• Assist with district events, athletic programs, extracurricular activities, and community engagement initiatives.
• Provide supervision assistance during field trips, assemblies, lunch periods, and other school functions.
• Help maintain a safe, welcoming, inclusive, and positive learning environment.
• Serve as a positive role model by demonstrating professionalism, respect, responsibility, and integrity.
• Follow all district policies, procedures, confidentiality requirements, and safety protocols.
• Perform additional duties as assigned by the supervising administrator or district personnel that are appropriate for the volunteer or internship placement.

Qualifications:

• A commitment to the mission, vision, and values of Garfield Heights City Schools.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
• Dependability, professionalism, and the ability to work collaboratively with students, staff, and families.
• The ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment.
• Flexibility to assist in a variety of school environments and activities.
• Successful completion of all required application materials, orientation (if applicable), and any required BCI/FBI criminal background checks prior to placement.
• For unpaid interns, documentation from a college, university, career-technical program, or other educational institution may be required, depending on the internship.

About Our District:

The Garfield Heights City Schools collaboratively and cooperatively serve students and families of the City of Garfield Heights. Located in Cuyahoga County and bordered on the north by the City of Cleveland proper, and on all other sides by the first ring communities of Northeast Ohio. Our District proudly serves approximately 3,500 students in three Kindergarten through Grade 5 schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district also provides an award-winning Preschool program to educate the youngest students in our community at William Foster Elementary. All those who seek academic, co-curricular, student leadership, diversity, and community engagement success, can find these things and more in the Garfield Heights City Schools.

To that end, Garfield Heights High School offers a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including AP English, AP Government, AP American History, Honors Chemistry, Honors Calculus, Honors Physical Science, and more. While the District offers these high-level academic courses, the GHCS also proudly sends more than 225 students on an annual basis to the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center for those individuals deeply interested in learning a skilled profession or hands-on expertise in one of the trades. Middle School students have increasingly greater opportunities to prepare themselves for high school and parents are readily encouraged to be involved. Elementary School students in the GHCS also participate in such valuable literacy programs as LETRs and social/emotional initiatives as the Zones of Regulation. The GHCS places a great deal of emphasis at all levels of education on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (P.B.I.S.) and each school has won awards from the State of Ohio for encouraging and promoting positive behavior. A wide variety of co-curricular offerings are available to students of all ages in the Garfield Heights City Schools as well. Such opportunities include more than 18 varsity sports, the district's show choir, Music Express, Marching Band, Theater, A Capella Choir, National Honor Society, Student Council, Glass Ceiling, Future Engineers, and more. These co-curricular offerings are award-winning on the state, regional and local levels.

Garfield Heights City Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, genetic information, race, color, age, religion, disabilities, military status, sexual orientation, or national origin in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities.

Application Deadline: Ongoing volunteers are accepted throughout the school year. To Apply: Complete the Volunteer & Unpaid Intern Application Packet and submit all required forms and supporting documentation. Applicants will be contacted regarding placement opportunities as they become available.

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