Peace Guide - St. Peter Claver Catholic School

Position:
Peace Guide, Part-time Hours

20 hours per week  to 3 additional hours per week during the school year, after initial training, for training, reporting, and meetings.

Schedules vary based on school site, however, hours are typically late morning through late afternoon, such as 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. or 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., 4 days per week. Alternate schedules can be considered. Due to working in a school, nearly all hours will be scheduled from August to June with possible, infrequent hours in July as needed.

Non-exempt

Hiring Range: $19.20 – 22.06. This part-time position is also eligible for the following:

• Retirement Plan:
  Peace Maker Minnesota offers part-time employees the ability to participate in Peace Maker Minnesota’s retirement plan with a 3% employer match, consistent with the employee handbook.
• Monthly Cell Phone Stipend: $18.00
• Mileage Reimbursement:
  Peace Maker Minnesota will reimburse employees and volunteers for mileage while on Peace Maker Minnesota business. Peace Maker Minnesota will use the standard business mileage reimbursement rate as determined by the IRS. Peace Maker Minnesota will determine the miles that employees drive from home to their primary Peace Maker Minnesota work site (Assigned school for Peace Guides), and from their primary work site to home.
  
  Miles driven to and from one’s home for Peace Maker Minnesota business in excess of these miles are reimbursable.
• Employee Assistance Program:
  NuVantage EAP is a free and confidential resource that provides services such as behavioral health counseling, legal referral services, financial counseling and planning, elder care and dependent care assistance. The resource is available to employees 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Sick and Safe Leave:
  Sick and Safe Leave in the amount of 48 hours will be provided to employees who work at least 80 hours in a year. The hours will be available on January 1st of each year for employees’ immediate use. For employees hired after January 1st, the hours will accrue at a rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.

Students do well if they can. (Collaborative Problem Solving by Think:

Kids, a program of Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry) and students need caring adults in their lives.

Peace Guide Services exist intervene in the lives of youth to help them learn to: 1. Resolve problems and conflicts;
2. Build and sustain positive relationships;
3. Develop their self-esteem.

The main activity of the Peace Guide is to help youth develop skills in the domains of conflict resolution, positive relationships, and self-esteem. Guides do this by:

• Conducting 1:1 sessions or conversations, or to mediate an issue between 2 students.
• Facilitating group sessions such as small groups, classroom presentations, or instruction in a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum, like Second Step.

Peace Guides help youth to develop the following skills:

• Conflict Resolution: reflective listening; recognizing, managing, and expressing feelings and needs, problem solving.
• Positive Relationships: empathy, flexibility, reconciliation.
• Self-esteem: recognizing strengths, building support network, practicing assertiveness.

Peace Guides help kids to feel listened to, valued, and cared for.

The Peace Guide will work at their assigned school. The Guide may occasionally need to attend meetings at the Peace Maker Minnesota office in Roseville, or travel to other Metro Area locations for training or meetings.

• Ability to embrace the philosophy that students do well if they can.
• Strong, effective inter-personal skills, including the ability to build relationships with students, school staff, and community members.
• Keen observation skills and ability to identify when youth are engaged in conflicts that they may be hiding from adults.
• Ability to maintain and model calm and patience in high-activity, high-stress environments, such as lunchrooms, playgrounds, hallways, restrooms, and classrooms.
• Ability to utilize the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach to help students develop…